The Effects of exposure to gadgets to the academic performance of the Senior

High school and Junior High school Students in Infant Jesus School of Bukidnon
Inc.

Jeff Hobert P. Pamor

Infant Jesus School of Bukidnon

Sayre, Highway Poblacion Valencia City Bukidnon

November 2018
 INTRODUCTION

BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

Nowadays the technology is very useful in our daily lives, specially the mobile
phone that allow us to communicate with each other. One of the reason why there are
technologies is to help the people to make things easier and to improve their way of
living. The technology cannot be considered as a bad influence to the students as long
as they manage their time in using gadgets and they use it specially to their academic
purposes.

The gadgets make our lives better in many ways. For today’s generation there
are already improved technologies, one of the most improved technologies are the
portable gadgets that help us in our daily lives such as mobile phones, high quality
laptops, and many more, and also there is newly invented electronic devices that allow
us to charge our gadgets wherever we are and that is called “Powerbank” which has a
stored electricity. The technology is one of the reason why people didn’t feel bored
sometimes, because most of the time they exposed themselves to the gadgets and they
feel joy on spending their time on using it. Also there are some people who prefer to
stay at home and enjoying, using their gadgets than hanging out together with friends.
Not just the gadgets are giving happiness to the people nowadays, if there is no internet
in their lives they will not be happy, because most of the people spent their time on
having fun in social media like facebook, Instagram, tweeter, and many more.

Even though there are a lot of disadvantages of using gadgets, if people are still
responsible and has a good time management about that it can give them a good benefits
and they will not be affected from the bad effects that can possibly get from it. The
mobile phones is the most common type of gadgets that people will use in their daily
lives, even the students today couldn’t live without their mobile phones, because there
are some activities on their school that they need a mobile phones and internet to
research some activities. For today’s generation the mobile phone is not belong to
“Wants” it is already belong to “Needs” because the mobile phone turned to be the most
important thing to the people’s life. For the 21st century’s generation people couldn’t
live without mobile phones because using the mobile phones everyday was considered
as their daily routines.

Overusing gadgets has a lot of negative effects to the people, even though all
of the people knows about that, they are still doing these stuff because they always think
about their happiness while using gadgets but they didn’t think what kind of a negative
effect that they will get from it.

There are some students do prefer to study in their mobile phones because if
there are something that are not familiar to them they will immediately research on the
internet, but the disadvantage of studying in the mobile phones is the most major
negative effect it can damage your eyesight which can lead you to difficulties in the
future times, that’s why it is more advisable to listen and taking note the important thing
of the topic at school and study using the notebooks/books to make yourself safe from
the negative effect because studying on the phone is prone to radiation that possibly
damage the eyesight of the people.

The improved technologies in today’s generation has a very big impact on the
people specially for the students nowadays, and this improved technology that already
exist can help the people in many ways. There is a big purpose why the technologies
nowadays was improved. The people used gadgets in different ways, but for the
students they can possibly get a good benefits on using gadgets if they will use to uphold
a good time management for their own good specially if they use it for their educational
activities or something that it is really important to them. It is more advisable for the
students to have a good time management to let themselves properly manage the things
that they are going to make, and in that point they use mobile phones to set a reminder
to remind themselves on what they are going to do, time management can help the
students because if they can manage themselves properly they will not feel any pressure
on their selves while they are doing something.

On the TV show entitled “Salamat Dok” in the Umagang Kayganda the doctor
gives an advice to all the people that if they use any gadgets everyday the maximum
time on using it is 2 hours, because if the people still use gadgets over 2 hours it can
damage their health and after using they feel some headaches or some pains in their
selves, people should avoid using gadgets when it is dark because the most major
negative effect their it can damage the eyesight of the people, that’s why the doctor
gives an advice to all the people to remind them, to avoid having negative effects from
it. People should need to obey the advice that the doctor gave, specially for the student
who exposed themselves to gadgets, aside from getting negative effect on it they forgot
their obligations as a students because their attention is on the gadgets.

Statement of the problem

The problem of this study is all about to all the Junior High School and Senior
High School Students in Infant Jesus School of Bukidnon Inc. in exposing and spending
most of their time to use gadgets than to study their lessons.

1. What is the profile of the respondents in terms of:

1.1 Age
1.2 Gender
1.3 Time allotted for using gadgets per day
1.4 Time allotted for studying per day
2. What kind of gadgets are they prefer to use?
3. What kind of application they prefer to use? (Is it beneficial to them?)
4. In what do they prefer to study between the books or mobile phones?
5. Are they still interested in using gadgets without internet?
6. For the students who overused gadgets everyday what are the advantages and
disadvantages they can get possibly get?
 Objectives of the study

The objectives of this study is to determine why the students nowadays engaged
themselves into the technological world. And also this study investigates the
Junior High School and Senior High School Students to achieve the aim of this
study.
1. To know why some of the students use gadgets everyday
2. To know what can gadget help the students in their daily lives
3. To prove that having a time management in using gadgets cannot affect
their academic performance specially to their health
4. To know why students nowadays couldn’t live comfortable without
gadgets
5. To know why students exposed themselves to gadgets

SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

This study has a significant thought for the students who always on excessive
using of gadgets, this study can be used as the instrument to remind all the students that
they should avoid on excessive use of gadgets because it can affect their academic
performances. And the students should be more responsible enough to do their studies.

For also to the parents, they must control their children to the use of gadgets,
and don’t let them to use the gadgets in doing any unnecessary things that are not
important specially if it is not related to their educational activities.
 SCOPE AND DELIMITATION OF THE STUDY

This study is entitled “The Effects of exposure to gadgets tot the

academic performance of Senior High School and Junior High School Students
in Infant Jesus School of Bukidnon Inc.” will be conducted at Infant Jesus
School of Bukidnon Inc. This will be done from November 2018 to March 2019.
The study is limited on the effects of gadgets on the individual academic
performances of Junior High School and Senior High School Students in Infant
Jesus School of Bukidnon Inc.

This study aims to prove to the students that upholding a good time
management in using gadgets will give them a good benefits especially to their
individual academic performances

The respondents of this study will be selected in Junior High School and
Senior High School Students in Infant Jesus School of Bukidnon Inc.

DEFINITION OF TERMS

Cellular phones/Mobile phones – refers to a mobile technology that allows

people to communicate with each other.
Computer – refers to a device that helps students to do their school works and
as their entertainment.
Laptop/Netbook/Notebook/Powerbank – refers to a protable devices that can
help the students, do their school works and as for entertainment anywhere they
want.
Internet – a global computer network providing a variety of information and
communication facilities, consisting of interconnected networks using
standardized communication protocols.
Electronic Device –a device that accomplishes its purpose electronically.
Technological devices – refers to any device that can help you to do school
works or anything that is really important. It is technology that allow those tasks
to be performed via cellular phone.
Positive Effect of Technological Devices – refers to the factors that the
researcher believes, technological improves and enhance the learning
performance of the students.
Negative Effect of Technological Devices – refers to the factors that the
researcher believes, technological devices degrade the learning performance of
the student.