In this age, society, particularly students, use technology to make complex things less difficult—from the daily usage of phones, Internet, modern gadgets, and many services which technology offers. Be that as it may, what's really happening right now with the use of innovative progressions is that mankind is gradually being gulped by this system, and is being out from the borderline.
Technology makes students waste their time on using their electronic gadgets rather than studying. Based on the study by Glass and Kang (2018), published in the journal Educational Psychology, allowing students to use smartphones and other gadgets during lectures didn’t make students’ learning lower than before, but they did get a score at least 5% lower in the end-of-term exam, likewise the students who didn’t use it because they are distracted by the surrounding activity. In fact, number of adolescents' reading is dropping instead of using print media, such as books, newspaper and magazines, they make use of social media; that's why the rate of Internet usage has increased by 75% for grade 10 students and 68% in grade 8. And grade 12 students who read books or other print media has depreciated 60% in the 1970s to 16% of students by 2016 (Twenge, J. M., Martin, G. N., & Spitzberg, B. H. 2018, August 16). In the Philippines, the Department of Education have emphasized the call to disallow electronic devices inside the school premises, wherein its goal is to decrease the habit of the utilization of electronic device such as cellular phones and tablets which can affect students’ learning (Alimondo, 2018).
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Technology may likely influence students to cheat rather than answering based on their learning. As per an article of Rachel Williams, several students tried to cheat in the GCSEs and A-levels by sneaking their cellphones and different gadgets into the tests. Half of cases of students lost their marks, and in one of every six cases, they were excluded (Williams, 2010). In a report by Faiza Elmasry, which was published in VOA News, Nile Nickel, who is an innovation and social media expert, says that numerous students place information in their phones to cheat on their tests, and they also use Google Glass, a device that can be utilized to record a video and transmit it to a remote site. Prior in the year 2016, several Thai students were found cheating through this gadget to get into a best medical school (Elmasry, 2016). In William Turton’s article, schools across the world banned the use of smartwatches as it is an aid for cheating. In this case, Melbourne’s La Trobe University and Sydney’s University of New South Wales both asked students to remove wristwatches before they start their examinations (Turton, 2015).
Technology has forced students to skip classes to play computer games. According to a study conducted by Michael R. Ward (2018), video games make students to stay away from school and spend more time playing them than studying, in which it is obvious that it really affects the class attendance of a student. Thus, the general increase in the popularity of video gaming has led to a general decrease in educational inputs, although the analysis provides no direct evidence of this longer-term trend. According to GMA News, a group of grade 8 students in Santiago, Ilocos Sur was caught playing in a computer shop during their class hours, thus, the police officers gave them sermon due to their irresponsibility. The article (Orias, 2018) reports that a sum of 41 minors was found playing computer games on Internet cafe during the inspection of the Cagayan de Oro City Government in various barangays. Sixteen minors were discovered playing at an Internet café last November 5 at barangay 14. On November 6, 19 minors were rescued in barangay 12, while another activity yielded six minors in a piso net in barangay Carmen Thursday, November 8. Three of the minors rescued in barangay Carmen were supposedly late for class and were banned from entering the school, therefore, they spent their time at the computer shop, the RCB said (Orias, 2018).
It is a known fact that technology decreases labor needs and costs by providing greater access to information, enabling timely and informed decision making, among other things. Technology is popular among students because it helps them do less work. Because technology is of high convenience, technology is now being overused to the point that it gives negative effects to its user. Students may spend more hours using technology because of its wide network, students may be inclined to cheating because of high reliance for its information, and students may also have addiction towards technology which causes them to skip classes and spend more time on technology rather than studying. Although people cannot stop their reliance for technology and its advancement, people are given high responsibility in using it only for good use. People, mostly students, should learn how to balance the use of technology with their study life. The use of technology should only be as an aide and not centered in people's lives.
References
- Alimondo, L. (2018). DepEd prohibits electronic gadget use anew. Retrieved from https://www.sunstar.com.ph/article/1754417
- Elmasry, F. (2016). Technology Gives Students Innovative Tools for Cheating. Retrieved from https://www.voanews.com/a/technology-gives-students-innovative-tools-for-cheating/3556643.html
- Glass, A. & Kang, M. (2018). Dividing attention in the classroom reduces exam performance. Educational Psychology, DOI: 10.1080/01443410.2018.1489046
- GMA News Online. (2018). 7 estudyante na nasa computer shop sa oras ng klase, sinermonan ng mga pulis. Retrieved from https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/balitambayan/promdi/642503/7-estudyante-na-nasa-computer-shop-sa-oras-ng-klase-sinermonan-ng-mga-pulis/story/
- Orias, P. (2018). 41 Minors Rescued from Internet Cafés During Class Hours. Retrieved from https://www.sunstar.com.ph/article/1773309
- Turton, W. (2015). Colleges are banning smartwatches to avoid cheating. Retrieved from https://www.dailydot.com/debug/smartwatch-ban-colleges/
- Twenge, J. M., Martin, G. N., & Spitzberg, B. H. (2018). Trends in U.S. Adolescents’ media use, 1976–2016: The rise of digital media, the decline of TV, and the (near) demise of print. Psychology of Popular Media Culture. https://doi:10.1037/ppm0000203
- Ward, M. R. (2018). Cutting class to play video games. Information Economics and Policy, 42, 11-19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infoecopol.2017.10.001
- Williams, R. (2010). Mobile phones drive increase in exam cheating. Retrieved from https://www.theguardian.com/education/2010/feb/03/exam-cheating-mobile-phone-increase/
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