The Extent of Technology Usage among Selected Students of Fernando Air Base Integrated National High School

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Technology can be a powerful tool for transforming learning. It can help affirm and advance relationships between schools and students, reinvent approaches to learning and shrink long-standing equity and accessibility gaps. Indeed, technology usage was widely and regularly used by the students to communicate and to assist them in their studies. In this 21st century, the term technology is an important issue in many fields especially in education.This study focused in determining the extent of technology usage of the students-respondents in Fernando Air Base Integrated National High school. Grade seven to grade twelve students were the main respondents of the study. The study was delimited to the attempt of getting the responses of respondents on the questionnaires prepared in order to get answer to the problem posited in the study.

METHODS

This study used quantitative features in the design data collection and analysis as the research design. In addition, the subject of the study were the students in FABINHS were for every year level the researchers selected 10 respondents. The researchers used purposive sampling and 60 respondents were identified in the study. Moreover, the survey questionnaire served as the instrument that was utilized in the study. The researcher also made use the SPSS version 20 to generate results, tables and computed values.

RESULTS

Based on the results of this study, majority of the respondents belonged to the aged group of 15-16 years old with 60% with the total number of respondents. In addition to that, 63% of the respondents were female and only 37% were male. Results revealed that most of the students in FABINHS used cellphone and that the students used technology for leisure like listening to music which got the highest mean of 3.38. In terms of academics, technology was utilized through researching using different search engines such as google.

DISCUSSIONS

The expected output of this study will be a technology usage management program through a seminar. The said seminar aimed to increase the awareness of students in utilizing technology. It will also provide the teachers different strategies in effectively using technology inside the classroom.