MOBILE PHONE

AFFECTS THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE

OF THE STUDENT’S IN

MARIGONDON NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

THE PROBLEMS AND ITS SCOPE

Rationale of the study

A mobile phone is a device that has affected our social contacts, education system, safety,

business activities and many other aspects of life. It is one of the popular ways of how the

students study.

Nowadays, mobile phones could be found everywhere. It is the common way in communication,

gathering information, widening any kind of businesses and providing learning resources

towards the students. But until now people are still arguing whether it is more of an advantage or

a disadvantage. Then it has been argued that the future of mobile communication will rely on

mobile services.

One of the advantages of mobile phones are considered the quickest means of communication in

daily life, can contact easily with our friends and our relative wherever by calling or sending

messages, a means of entertainment for people, can listen to music and play games on a mobile

phone.
Moreover, by using the latest apps for smartphones, can access to the internet to watch Film and

check profile in social networks and update status wherever using a mobile phone. If we have a

smartphone in hand, the studies will become more effective such as a lookup dictionary, find out

many sources of reference on the internet which is useful for study. On the other hand, one of the

major disadvantages of this is the easy access of the people towards certain sites that could

encourage immorality like porn sites. According to (Rappler), “The Philippines has the highest

average visit duration worldwide”. The telephone user becomes to addict their mobile phone if

they are too dependent on it, people only focus on their phone without communicating.

The students in Marigondon National High School are not exempted from these cases. It is

the specialized aspects of the particular fields of endeavor in today’s generation mobile phone is

unique, useful and powerful because some students are using this for bad purposes that may

affect the student mindset.

The researchers know student know that the behavior of our fellow students and the factors that

brings negative effect of the students in their studies are the following (1) gaming (2)

pornography (3) cheating during major examination (4) too much using of social media that can

lead laziness of the studies also they can find troubles (5) passing of information, etc.

A mobile phone can easily be overused within the classroom, and this can cause

negative effects on the entire learning experience. Some of these effects are already seen from

student texting and internet usage (school-related and trivial) during class. There are also

increased incidences of plagiarism for assignments and an overall lack of respect for correct

language usage within essays. This indicates the effect that mobile phones may have had on the

current generation’s thinking abilities and the overall power of the internet.
 However, the mobile phone is a device that can make and receive calls over a radio

link while moving around a wide geographic area. It does so by connecting to a cellular network

provided by a mobile phone operator, allowing access to the public telephone network. The

ancient types of mobile phones support limited services such as, calling, sending and very few

for taking pictures. However, modern phones support a very wide range variety of other services

apart from making and receive calls. These include; text messaging, MMS, email, internet

access, short-range wireless communications (Infrared, blue tooth, file transfer Protocol, (FTP),

business applications, gaming, and photography. It is hard to say if this is a good thing or a bad

thing in the future especially with the universal availability of the internet. The students of the

future prioritize where the information can be found (i.e. via Google) rather than what the

information is. The constant stimulation that comes from the internet has also taken away the

ability of students to generally focus in the classroom. The article showed how constant

simulation by email, text, messages, and online video games created a profound obstacle to the

focus and productivity of both young people and adults, all of which can also be used in E-

Learning purposes. This stimulation causes a short attention span, and even without the internet

as a distraction, many young people struggle as is to manage time wisely and resist impulsive

behavior. There is some of the students didn’t listen to their teachers because they believe that

they can search on Google or the other social media all the answers that they need/needed. That’s

why many of the students got failing grades because they are not focusing on their studies but the

mobile phone.

This research can be highly important and informative not just to the students in

Marigondon National High School but also in the other schools.