EFFECTS OF GADGETS IN STUDENTS’ PERFORMANCE

CHONA C. CAPULONG

Do students still need textbooks? The modern gadgets have a great impact on the learners’ academic performance. In the year where electronic gadgets are not yet invented like computers, students are not yet engage in activities using technologies. Learners rely on books and visits library facilities to study, read their notes and review their lessons. And now that the gadgets are available to all pupils, learners achieved low academic grades.

Technologyhasalwaysbeenadvancingthroughouttheyears.Ithasbeenmadebig impact on people especially lifestyle .

Dealing with the modern gadgets occupied a major position in our daily lives. Though they were invented to make life better for us in the first place. It is an undeniable fact that many of the gadgets have negative effects and influence upon the quality of pupils‘performance in many ways.

As they go home ,they don’t open their books , they don’t do their homeworks and projects, they play games using computers , these games have effects on the learning experiences of the pupils.

A negative effect of these gadgets on students can be the fact that they can become obsessive and the students can neglect everything else, like their social life, their family and friends. Is not a bad thing to have a computer, but is a bad thing to spend all your life in front of it pretending that everything else doesn’t exist. We must have limitations in everything we do.

The author is Master Teacher

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I at Fausto Gonzales Sioco Memorial School