Happy Phones

Pre-loved phones for schools

Smartphones are amazing learning tools - they can be rescued, cleaned up, and configured to support learning in your kura.

Even without WiFi, students can use them in class to:

•  Learn to take good photos & videos 📷🎥

•  Capture their mahi, and use photos, audio, & videos in projects

•  Create a podcast, using the voice recorder app

•  Ponder the ethics of recording someone/something

•  Consider how phones could be re-designed to be more sustainable 🌍

•  Learn how to transfer files to laptops via cable 📱🡆💻

•  Practice & improve speeches

•  Learn video & photo editing

•  Test mobile apps

•  Listen to, and learn about, the radio 🤯

•  Use as a stopwatch, timer, or alarm

•  Check work on the calculator

•  Use the torch

"Thank you so much - [we] loved having a way to take photos. Kids felt super 'cool' having 'phones' to use! Great motivator and engager for learning, kids also loved using tech that was preloved and enviro impacts." - Debbie, Yr 4/5 teacher, Goodwood School

"I can see these being a great digital diary for my students... they can come back and present their experiences in a format they choose" - Jacqui, Yr 5/6 teacher, Fairfield Primary

"The phones are smaller and easier to use than an ipad. Most students have experience using a phone, and were definitely keen to use them." - Renae, Yr 5/6 teacher, Cambridge East Primary