THE EFFECTS OF GADGETS ON THE LEARNING BEHAVIOR OF

Trescha Cubol
Rationale

Addiction to gadgets is a common problem of teachers around the world. A prior

study that was carried out in six Asian nations concluded that children aged from 12 to 18
years held ownership of smartphones at a rate of 62% overall. A study has shown that
digital addiction has a detrimental effect on students’ performance in the classroom.

In our country smartphone addiction’s predictive capacity for health-related

quality of life among Filipino adolescents found a high prevalence rate of smartphone
addiction (62.6%) (Buctot, Kim, & Kim, 2020). The use of smartphone has become
widespread amongst today’s children and young people (CYP) which parallels increases in
poor mental health. Gadget addiction a rise during the pandemic according to ‘The World
Unplugged Project’ (2010) consisting of 1000 children, revealed withdrawal symptoms
(from gadgets) in 50% of the participants. Most children failed to stay away from gadgets
for 24 hours and showed signs of restlessness, irritating behavior, appetite loss, etc.
Addiction to gadgets can also lead to the misbehavior of the students in the school that
create stress among teachers.
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