Mobile phones have evolved at a rapid rate since their invention forty years ago. They now allow mobile phone users to do more than make a call from A to B. With mobile phones becoming more and more like a computer, assistant head teacher at Gumley House Convent School, Stephen Byrne decided to trial thirty iPhones with thirty students throughout Gumley House Convent School to see whether education could be revolutionised. The study, a mere idea just months ago, has been made possible by the help of Brentford City Learning Centre who purchased the phones, the O2 phone company and the persistence of Stephen Byrne at times when commercial interests faulted. The study is being conducted to investigate whether these devices could actually improve teaching and learning in lessons.

These thirty selected students will have these phones for a year in which they can use the internet and other applications Apple offers as part of their education process. Students applied through an application process in which they were to submit a page on how they would use mobile technologies to improve their learning in schools and beyond. With sixty three applicants Mr Byrne has seen many different ideas in which mobiles and particularly iPhones could be used in education.