EFFECTS OF USING MOBILE PHONES

CHAPTER 1

INTRODUCTION

As everyone knows we are surrounded by the new technology called cell phones.
Everywhere you look there is someone taking, playing a game, paying a bill or browsing the
internet with their cellphones. Even children are acquainted with tools and amenities of the
object. Due to so many facilities provided by mobile phones nowadays, the abundant part of
users becomes sightless about the history, the effects in the future and diseases it might cause
in our health.

The purpose of this research paper is to present how the mobile phones have affected
people’s lives and the future use of them. First, this research will reveal how the mobile phone
emerged and who pioneered the idea.

Currently education is making a move toward the use of more technology within
classrooms ranging from elementary to the collegiate level. In high schools and colleges,
devices being used commonly for educational purpose are tablents.

In modern classrooms, instructors face many challenges as they complete for students’
attention among variety of communication stimuli. Rapid growth of mobile computing, including
smarts phones and tablets presents a double-edged problem, along with unimaginable access
to information come with unforeseen distractions.

A major concern for many instructors is the potential distraction caused by students
using their mobile devices to text, play games, check Facebook, tweet or engage in other
activities available to them in a rapidly evolve digital technology. That concern has potential
merit; recent statistics from the Pew Foundation show that the median number of daily texts for
order teens rose from 60 in 2009 to 100 in 2011. Moreover 64% of teens who own cell phones
have texted during class, even in schools where cell phones are technically.

Some critics argue that texting and other digital communication behavior potentially
diminish key social skills like effective listening. As one communicator noted, we think of
phones as a communication tool, but the truth is they may be just the opposite. Other views
suggest people are adapting to new communication norms in an increasingly digital world,
learning to quickly attend to process and respond to multiple and sometimes simultaneous
message.
A. Background of the study
Nowadays, students have been using technologies as their education learning,
specially students todays generation. Students need mobile phones for their necessary
excuses and emergencies. Somehow, it is not bad to use mobile phones in school
specially if there are re research activities.
Millennial people especially teenagers are more attracted of using mobile
phones. They are using mobile phones as their main component in their studies and
also their hobbies.
People love to use cellphone in order for them to share their feelings, status, and
what they want to show in social media. At Saint Joseph High School cellphone is not
allowed during classes because this right cause disturbance.
Technologies, like mobile phones have their specific uses it is a thing that we can
be able to use anywhere, everywhere. Mobile phone at Saint Joseph High School has
become a controversial issue by the students and teachers but parents believe that
phones are essential and opponents of students during school days.

B. Statement of the Problem

The study generally aims to formulate and evaluate the advantages and dis advantages
or using mobile phones in school.
 Advantages of Mobile Phones
 If students have cellphone parents will be less worried.
 Students can easily call for their parents in times of emergencies.
 Cellphones can be used as memory aids. Students can document their
lessons
 Cellphones encourage collaborative learning. Students can share rates
and reminders faster and easier with mobile devices.
 Cellphones can be used as paper and pencil. Students can use their
mobile phones for taking down notes.
 Disadvantage of Mobile Phones
 Mobile phones cause distraction. Students can easily distracted when
their phones vibrate.
 Cellphones can be health hazards constant. Explore to the radiation
emitted by mobile phones maybe bad for the students.
 Cellphone can be used cheating students can exchange text messages
with test answer them without the teachers knowing.
 Cellphones can be used in bullying. Students can take a video or picture
of others students and post it in social media.
 C. Scope and Delimitation

This study will talks about the things that students should apply in terms of using their
mobile phones. This will provide information to know its advantages and disadvantages. It will
discuss how the components of using cellphones inside the campus.

The investigation will be conducted to evaluate the effects of using mobile phones
during class hours to the random selected GAS students of Grade 7-Grade 11 and randomly
selected teachers of Saint Joseph High School.

The qualification, acceptability and its advantages and disadvantages will be looked for
the selected students and teachers during the School Year 2020-2021.

D. Significance of the study

The researches significance of the study in using technologies like mobile phones is to
have a knowledge and discipline into ourselves in using gadgets. Also, to lessen students
who were so much addicted in using mobile phones.

 School
This study impact in school is to have a great were in far away from addicted and
students will focus in their studies.
 Teachers
The significant effect of this study to teachers is that they will not be able to
worried in terms of grades of students in Saint Joseph High School because they
have been learned with the study.
 Students
For the students, the impact of this study is that, they can now control and limit
themselves using mobile phones and give make focus to their studies.

E. Definition of Terms

The following definitions will be pertinent to the present study:

Cell phones are also called mobile or hand phones. These are held electronic devices use
for telecommunication. Cell phones functions may include talking, texting, messaging
accessing the internet, playing music, playing games, taking pictures or video.

F. Hypothesis
 Ho- There is no significant difference between the advantage and disadvantage
of using mobile phones at Saint Joseph High School in terms of playing online
games using during classes.
 Ha- There is a significant difference between the advantage and disadvantage of
using mobile phones in terms of emergencies and excuses.
 CHAPTER 2

REVIEW OF ABOUT RELATED LITERATURE

A mobile phone is a phone that can make and receive telephone 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 network. In addition
according to Henrich (2015) modern also support wide range variety of other services such a
text messaging, MMS, email, internet, access, short range, wireless communication, Bluetooth,
business applications, gaming and photography.

The purpose of mobile phones is use as learning tools by accessing the internet, using
them as a calculator and searching the dictionary in order positive affect classroom grades.

Dietz and Henrich (2015) found that since the increase technology in the classroom
(e.g. use of cellphones) there has been increased report of a decline in over all grades and
decrease in seat. Using cellphones in the classroom has been connected with lower recall and
a decrease in student satisfaction with there study.

Chandler- Oltcolt and Mahar (2016)believe classroom that integrate technology within
everyday social learning environments will gain potential to promote more academically related
interest within the school.

Today a cellphone is not just a rich man’s fashion accessory in Philippines. It’s
transforming the way millions of people do business in a country where even land lines were
luxury barely a decade ago. According to Oxford English Dictionary the word Cellphone or”
mobile” was in association with the Latin phrase “mobile valgus” excitable crowd. Cellphone
technology new sense and connectivity to social life.

Smith (2011) presented that 87% of smart phone owners say that they mostly go online
using their phone rather than say they mostly go online using their phone, rather than with PC.
This support our assumption that smart phones related PC’s as a mean of access to the
internet.

Same study by Lanigan, et al (2010) in her research presented that form a sample of 97
internet user the majority of participants (89%) perceived that the PC impact and 20% a mostly
negative impact.

Another research suggests that many college student perceive the cellphone primarily
as a leisure device, and mostly commonly use cell phones for social networking, surfing the
internet, watching videos, and playing games (LEPP 2015).

Thus constant usage and addiction to cell phones has affected the people physical,
psychologically and socially. Excessive mobile phones use has been found to be associated
with health problems. An estimation around 4.5 billion of people using cellphone worldwide
Goswaniatal (2016).

Inappropriate use of mobile phone by students presents may deleterious affects for
example, usage of phones during lectures cause disturbance.
“THE EFFECT OF MOBILE PHONES ON STUDENTS ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE”

AKINWALE (2010)

http://academia.edu./29026191/

DIETZ ON HENRICH (2015)

“EFFECT OF STUDENT CLASSROOM CELL PHONE USAGE ON TEACHERS”

http://digitalcommons.wku.educ/these/2015/

CHANDLER OLCOTT AND MAHAR (2016)

Http://digitalcommons.odu.edu/ots