Gadget Invasion : Hazardous Effects to Students' Learning Progress and Their Moral Deprivation

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Technology has always been advancing throughout the years, which made a big impact on the life of the people particularly the students. Thus, students lean their everyday life including their studies life into gadgets. In this study, the researchers discovered that the students too much engagement in the use of gadgets became the biggest dilemma because the learning competency and moral aspects are vividly affected as well.

METHODS

The qualitative descriptive research method was used to describe how students engaged in too much use of gadgets became the subjects of abrupt changes into their moral values and even to their academic performance at school. Ten selected students from the senior high school served as informants in gathering the data. Interview questions are open-ended to allow the participants to fully describe the experience from their own view point.

RESULTS

The informants concluded that gadgets have invaded the whole aspects of their personality. Their moral values have descended based on their responses, because they said that they emulated the things they saw and absorbed the things they learned out of the gadgets they used. Also, the informants' academic performance became the major dilemma of their parents, because some of them flunked at school. The results of the interview inferred that gadgets controlled the mind and the behavior of the people. Though it is useful in some other facet, gadgets has become the leeway of the annihilation of students moral aspect and their learning progress as being presented in the data gathered.

DISCUSSIONS

Hence, intervention is highly recommended by the researchers to give remedy to the worsening conditions of these students. The clear result of the study demonstrated the strong affirmation is highly needed of the parents to interfere to these students. Advancement is good but the result to the behavior and other aspects is worst.