Technology: A Claw to the Souls of the Juvenile

Technology: A claw to the Souls of the Juvenile.

GROUP 3

A2B

Members:

Bamba, Kathrina

Calangi, Ciara Nicole

Garcia, Ronselle Regine

Macalintal, Airish

Gonzales, Ana Lorraine

Polisto, Jaren

Submitted to:

Ms. Asuncion Atienza

A Final Term requirement

November 24, 2016

De La Salle Lipa

Table of Contents:

1. Individual Speech …………………………………………….................  2

1. Academics…………………………………………………………… 3
2. Socialization…………………………………………………………  7
3. Security and Privacy………………………………………………..11
4. Health Problems……………………………………………………..12

1. Expenses………………………………………………………………………14
2. Personal Write Up ………………………………………………………….15

Technology: A Claw to the Souls of the Juvenile

Academics

Impact of Technology to the Academic performance of Students

Macalintal, Airish Justine M.

Among teens, the most common media activities are watching TV, surfing the internet, checking their accounts and listening to music. Studies found that teenagers are spending 6 to 8 hours per day on their gadgets and smartphones. Their time on studying and doing other tasks necessary for their improvement is being blocked by the time they spend on technology. They become less productive.

In a study conducted by Dr. Larry Rosen, a psychology professor at California State University - Dominguez Hills, students were observed studying for a 15 minute period where they were told to study a certain topic. He observed that students generally started to lose focus after only about three minutes. Dr. Rosen did another study where he surveyed high school students and asked them how often they switch from studying to doing something related to technology such as checking email, Facebook, texting or watching TV. For all grade levels, 80% of students reported that they switch between studying and technology somewhat often to very often. Rosen calls this “Continuous Partial Attention,” meaning that most of the time, students are not focused on studying but rather are moving their attention back and forth between studying and various forms of technology. Rosen explains that these is caused by anxiety because teenagers don’t want to miss out or to be the last person to hear some news, like, comment or post online.

In addition, the usage of smartphones and technology should be managed and observed among students for them to learn and perform at their best. If a student is focused when doing their homework, they actually retain more of the information. Moreover, it is observed that the brain cannot do two complex tasks at the same time like listening to a lecture while texting, or doing homework and being on Facebook—each of these tasks is very demanding, and each of them uses the same area of the brain, the prefrontal cortex. According to Meyer, most students incorrectly believe that they can  perform two challenging tasks at the same time. They may like to do it, they may even be addicted to it, but there’s no getting around the fact that it’s far better to just focus on one task.

Technology also affects language. It remains possible that interactive technologies will eventually have an effect on actual language use, beyond the superficial and through an intermediate effect on linguistic attitudes.  Language changes for several reasons. First, it changes because the needs of its speakers change. New technologies, new products, and new experiences require new words to refer to them clearly and efficiently. Consider texting: originally it was called text messaging, because it allowed one person to send another text rather than voice messages by phone. As that became more common, people began using the shorter form text to refer to both the message and the process.. According to Herk (2014), a widely held belief among language pundits and much of the general public is that technology is exerting a dramatic effect on language, generally for the worse. People regularly see or hear new words, expressions and abbreviations like LOL, OMG BRB, Pak Ganern and many more. Young people can no longer able to distinguish between the use of formal and informal language. Since teenagers spend most of their time on social media and social media has a great contribution on changing words, it also has a significant influence on how they use words, how they communicate and how they construct a sentence. Students sometimes do not notice that they are using shortcuts and abbreviations when writing an essay or any form of a written piece. They got used to it on social media thus, they tend to apply it even on the academic aspect.

Academics

Technology invades Academics

Gonzales, Anna Lorraine

Technology plays a vital role in the society and it has impacted almost every aspect of life today and education is not an exemption. Teachers use it as a tool to make the discussion more interesting, find more information about a topic and compute grades precisely in an instant.  Students use it for more accurate calculations, more research sources and learning materials with lesser time and effort. There are lots of advantages taken with the use of technology. However, along with these are the effects that may harm the academic performance of students.

Existing in the 21st century, the age of computers and technology, it is inevitable and irresistible to make use of it for educational purposes. Nevertheless, there are also hindrances that we may encounter as we continuously adopt the changes brought by this.  Here are the ways on how technology becomes a distraction to students like us.

Who among you can study a chapter of a book without interfering with gadgets? It is very evident that most of us can’t accomplish a task without the interruption of technology. As a result, instead of reading more chapters, there is no enough time to even finish one. Multitasking is not bad but sometimes instead of doing the task for a shorter period, it will just prolong the time to end a work. In addition, the students may lose its interest on reading and place the attention on the gadgets instead of books.

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