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Technology Addiction

This document introduces the topic of how technology affects students' academic performance. It discusses how technology can both help and harm students. While technology can help students learn by allowing them to access information, it can also be addictive and negatively impact their behavior and lifestyles if used for over 10 hours per day. The study will focus on junior high school students to understand the effects of technology on their academic performance and determine how to help them manage technology usage.

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Technology Addiction

This document introduces the topic of how technology affects students' academic performance. It discusses how technology can both help and harm students. While technology can help students learn by allowing them to access information, it can also be addictive and negatively impact their behavior and lifestyles if used for over 10 hours per day. The study will focus on junior high school students to understand the effects of technology on their academic performance and determine how to help them manage technology usage.

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CHAPTER 1

INTRODUCTION

Background of the study

In the past centuries, people work with their own two hands and they live a

healthy body. People were contented with what they have. Their hobbies were playing

outdoor games like “Tumbang preso” and other outdoor games that involve physical

activities. In the past centuries, they cannot read nor write.

But these past years, technologies were invented. Technologies help people

to be informed and to make relaxation and happiness. It serves as maid of the people

because technologies obey you easily and quickly.

Students are the most beneficial among the people who live in this world.

Technology helps students to explore information what they like to know. They can use

technology to make their projects and school works. It also allows the students to think

actively about the information displayed on the technology called “computer.”

Technologies can harm students in many different ways. Technologies like

cellphone, computer, laptop, or any gadgets can have an effect on our brain and too much

using these technologies can cause addiction. Addiction is a mental disorder that affects

our brains. Being addicted to these technologies makes your future miserable.

Technologies can change the behavior of a student. If students used gadgets 10 hours a

day, it can affect the student’s daily lifestyle.


In the four corners of a classroom, technology inspires some students to

study hard. They make it as an inspiration and they use it to entertain themselves.

Cellphones, computers, and calculator are the examples of the technologies use of

students to make their performances become active and high. Cellphones inspires

students to study hard. Why? Because it helps students reduce stress and to reduce

depressions who suffer by one student or more. Computer helps students to get high

performance. Computers are used for the projects, designing, and presenting their reports

in front of their professor. Calculator is very useful and helpful to student because it can

easily add, subtract, multiply, and even divide the small and large number.

Today’s students were active when it comes to technology.

Statement of the Problem

The general problem of this study is to know the effects of technology on

academic performance of every student. Specific problem:

1. What harmful effects can a student get in using technology?

2. What is the essence of this study?

3. What solution can you give if you are exposed in technology like gadgets 8 hours

a day?

Scope and Limitation

This study focuses in the junior high school students (grade 7- grade 10) to

determine the beneficial value and effects of technologies to the academic performance of

students. We will be having an interview at the junior high school students to give their
opinions and presence of technology to their academic performance. This study will be

conducted from S.Y. 2018-2019 at Mapandan National High School.

Significance of the Study

This study will help the students on how to manage their time using

technologies. The students will learn the proper usage of technologies to make their

academic performance satisfy upon their skills. This study shows that the students should

use technologies during their school activities. And this study helps the younger

generation to develop their skills in using technology and to manage their time wisely.

Definition of Terms

Technology- refers to the methods, systems, and devices which are the result

of scientific knowledge being used for practical purposes.

Technology has many effects. It has helped develop more

advanced economies and has allowed the rise of a leisure class. Many technological

processes produce unwanted by-products known as pollution and deplete natural

resources to the detriment of Earth's environment. Innovations have always influenced

the values of a society and raised new questions of the ethics of technology.

Academic performance- Academic achievement represents performance outcomes that

indicate the extent to which a person has accomplished specific goals that were the focus

of activities in instructional environments, specifically in school, college, and university.

Technology is important but it can also affect the academic performance of a

student once the student became addicted in technology. Instead of going to school, the
students skip classes and technology can also change one student’s attitude that may

affect his/her academic performance.

Technology Addiction- Technology addiction, sometimes called internet addiction, is a

fairly new phenomenon. It’s often described as a serious problem involving the inability

to control use of various kinds of technology, in particular the Internet, smartphones,

tablets and social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Now that it’s effortless to text and access the Web and social media from almost

anywhere, more of us are dependent on communicating via the tiny computers we carry

with us. So it’s no surprise that health experts are seeing a rise in addictive tendencies

that involve technology. 

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