IMPORTANCE OF TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION AT MARGOSATUBIG

ZAMBOANGA DEL SUR YEAR 2021

A research Paper Presented to the Faculty of

Pagadian City Science High school Tuburan, Pagadian City

In partial fulfillment of the

Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (Stem)

Presented to:

Mr. Juvy Mundo

Presented by:

Mangruban, Jan Michael S.

Gomez, April Veneece M.

THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND

How does technology impact student learning? In the physical classroom, some
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postsecondary educators view technology as a distraction. Even if they don’t ban the

use of mobile phones or social media during lectures, they may begrudgingly view

technology as a little more than a necessary evil.

But after a year of remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, perspectives

are changing. Rather than simply ‘tolerate’ it, instructors are realizing that technology

and the power of digital devices, apps and tools can increase engagement, encourage

collaboration, spark innovation and enhance student learning.

In and of itself, educational technology doesn’t result in effective teaching and

learning. It still requires a guide (the educator) and a purpose (related to the curriculum).

And there is effort and strategy required to integrate it effectively into your course

material. But, if used with intention, technology can be transformed from a distraction to

an effective teaching tool with positive effects on student achievement.

This study aims to help the future researchers know the importance of

technology in education and know how to properly use it as a student or a teacher to

avoid much greater problems in the future.

Specifically, this study seeks to answer the following queries:

1. What is the importance of technology in education?

2. What are the ways for students/teachers to properly use technology?

3. Why students’ needs the guidance of parents and teachers in terms of technologies?

4. How relevant technology as of today?

5. How to maintain healthy lifestyle with technology?

6. How many hours should a student/teacher exposed himself in technology?

7. How important technology is for students in this time of pandemic?

Future
Oriented

Reduces Learning
Becomes
Weight Interesting
Technology
in
Education

Increases Improves
Collaboration Skills
Significance of the study

The findings of the study helped in assessing the effects of technology to the

students.

Students. The result may help students to be aware of the extreme use of

technology and how it could affect their health.

Parents. The result may give parents knowledge on how to discipline their

children and to prevent them from being so obsess with gadgets.

Teachers and Principal. The result may help teachers how to properly guide

and give awareness to the parents of their students and to the students as well.

Future researchers. The results in this study may be used as reference data in

conducting new researches or in testing the validity of other related findings similar to

this study. This study will also serve as their cross-reference that will give them a

background or an overview of one of the importance of technology in education.

Therefore, it can validate some of the findings to the future studies and can be

resourced data to the future researchers in conducting a similar research.

wherein it will be measured using observations. Moreover, this study will also look for

the main problems involving technology in relation to their relationship, mental health,

peers and vices as well.

This will be conducted at our local place in Margosatubig following the guidelines of this

pandemic. The respondents of this study are the different students from different Puroks

in our town. These includes Purok Rubia, Daisy 1 and 2, MIrasol, Dona Aurora, Ilang-

ilang and Bagong Silang. Each Purok are composed of at least 2 respondents which are

all students given the questionnaire using direct messages

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Definition of Key Terminologies
This study contains certain key concepts and constructs. Although this construct

is discussed in detail in Chapter 2, they are briefly introduced in this early Chapter of the

research to allow the reader to make sense of what is presented in the subsequent

Chapters.

Technology. science or knowledge put into practical use to solve problems or

invent useful tools.

Education. is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge,

skills, values, morals, beliefs, and habits. Educational methods include teaching,

training, storytelling, discussion and directed research.

Junior High School. is the middle school that meet the development needs of

preadolescents. As Howley (2002) points out the development needs of young

adolescents differ from those of elementary school children and older teenagers.

“Developmentally responsive middle schools must take into account all that is known

about young adolescents and the cultural context in which they live.” (Lounsbury, 1996).

Senior High School (SHS). refers to the last two years of the K12 program,

namely as grade 11 and 12 base on the DepEd guide book named as “Senior High”.
 Purposive Sampling. is a non-probability sample that is selected based on

characteristics of a population and the objective of the study. Purposive sampling is also

known as judgmental, selective, or subjective sampling.

Future Oriented. the future is all about technology and multi-screening.

Education can’t lag behind.

Learning Becomes Interesting. it engages and challenges students with brand

new interactive methods.

Improves Skills. digital learning, communication, collaboration, building teams,

mobile learning, listening, planning, valuing, diversity, problem solving, self-direction,

global awareness, social presentations, …

Increases Collaboration. students can work and collaborate with people in

other locations. Distance learners can join i=online communities.

Reduces Weight. instead of carrying lots of books, students just carry a laptop,

a tablet or a mouse which contain all their books and projects.

REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE AND STUDIES

In order to have a better idea of the topic and a good start in making the study,

the researchers conducted intensive readings, both foreign and local from different

sources. These sources include articles and case studies from the internet, books, and

other reading materials. The review of related literatures and studies shall serve as a

foundation to fully understand and meaningfully interpret the results of the on-going

study.

Foreign Literature

According to the Meriam dictionary, technology is a manner of accomplishing a

task especially using technical processes, methods, or knowledge. Technology plays a

big role as our modern day relies on it. In the foreign countries, technologies became a

knowledge house in which people usually finds information from.

However, the popularity of technology in the foreign countries has risen

according to Nikita Duggal (2021) Technology today is evolving at such a rapid pace,

enabling faster change and progress, causing an acceleration of the rate of change,

until eventually, it will become exponential. The reason of this venture is because of the

COVID 19. Technologies serves as our entertainment, fun, work, study, business and

etc. it helped us a lot as the modern day and the new normal passes by.
 Technologies were mostly used by the minorities these days. As the pandemic

affects our normal life in which students were focus on their studies using the

technologies where online classes are being held. According to Sean Bui (2020)

Students now have to get used to distance learning via digital platforms due to social

distancing. Technology and learning plays a role to fulfill the knowledge of every student

despite of the pandemic.

Technologies may also give children entertainments and is being relevant as of

today. According to Brooke Auxier, Monica Anderson, Andrew Perrin and Erica Turner

(2020) the use of the internet and the adoption of mobile devices like smartphones and

tablets is widespread, and digital technologies play a significant role in the everyday

lives of American families. This is also true for children, who may begin interacting with

digital devices at young ages. Children were being engage to technologies such as

television, tablets, and etc. The most common device parents say their young child

engages with is a television, with 88% of parents saying their child ever uses or

interacts with a TV. Smaller – yet still large – shares of parents say their child ever uses

or interacts with a tablet computer (67%) or a smartphone (60%). Some 44% of parents

of young children say their child ever uses or interacts with a desktop or laptop

computer or a gaming device.

According to Annabelle Timsit a geopolitics reporter that even experts can’t

agree on whether technology is dangerous for kids, it means that technologies have

both good and bad effects at all. According to a recent study, the average 8- to 10-year-

old spends nearly 8 hours a day with a variety of different media, and older children and
teenagers spend 11 hours per day. Young people now spend more time with media

than they do in school—it is the leading activity for children and teenagers other than

sleeping.

Furthermore, according to Vawn Himmelsbach (2021), Technology in the

classroom is essential for increasing student engagement and empowering educators to

create innovative learning experiences in and out of class. In the physical classroom,

some postsecondary educators view technology as a distraction. Even if they don’t ban

the use of mobile phones or social media during lectures, they may begrudgingly view

technology as a little more than a necessary evil. But after a year of remote learning

during the COVID-19 pandemic, perspectives are changing. Rather than simply

‘tolerate’ it, instructors are realizing that technology and the power of digital devices,

apps and tools can increase engagement, encourage collaboration, spark innovation

and enhance student learning.

However, Vawn Himmelsbach (2021) added that Technology can foster cheating

in class and on assignments. Students have always found ways to cheat, but the digital

age makes it even easier—from copying-and-pasting someone else’s work to hiring an

essay-writer from an online essay mill. Here, digital technology could end up hindering

students’ professional development.

In the Philippines, children were also obsessed with this technology. As of today,

it serves as their entertainment such as TikTok and gaming, and online class platforms.

Due to the over use of gadgets, local researchers found that the use of gadgets could

cause myopia or nearsightedness. According to Ma. Teresa Montemayor (2019), At the

Department of Information and Communications Technology’s National Digital

Parenting Conference in 2018, ophthalmologist Dr. Alexander L. Gonzales II of the

Ospital ng Makati, said studies indicate that 29 percent of Filipino children suffer from

myopia. Gonzales added that 90 percent of frequent mobile or online gamers have

myopia. Extreme use of gadgets could put our lives to risk.

According to atty. Jose Ferdinand M. Rojas II (2020), Due to the pandemic

students spend their time using gadgets for online learning. The pandemic had greatly

cause us to use online platforms for work, and school. Children are more exposed to

gadgets and technology and, naturally, to the risks related to the increased exposure.

Rojas added that children age 5-17 years old should use gadgets for only 2 hours but

due to online class platforms children had to be exposed to technologies for more than

2 hours.
 CHAPTER 3

METHODOLOGY

The purpose of this chapter is to explain in detail the research methods and the

methodology implemented for this study. The chapter will explain the research design,

then the research environment, as well as the research participants. This will be

followed by a discussion of the abilities of the researchers to produce valid results and

on how well their respondents answer such questions to meet the aims and objectives

set by this dissertation. It concludes with a brief discussion on the ethical considerations

and limitations posed by the research methodology, Moreover, this chapter also

explains the data gathering instruments, data gathering procedures and the statistical

treatment.

Research Design

This study makes use of qualitative research design in the sense that it will be the

form of words in this research, it will tackle more about the title, definition, terms and

etc.
Research Instrument

For the purposes of this research, the researchers have decided to use one of

the classic research tools – questionnaires. The researchers prefer the descriptive

approach, rather than the positivism because of the quantifiable variables that are

measured elements

Research Locale

This study is conducted at Poblacion, Margosatubig, Zamboanga del Sur which

is composed of Junior High School and Senior High School Students from different

Puroks. This study determines how important technology to students as of the new

normal due to the pandemic. The researchers decided to conduct their research at

Margosatubig in order to help students in the area, in which the area needs

improvement accordingly to internet connection, technology resources, and etc

The research Participants of this study are chosen 20 children ages 18 and

below from Margosatubig Zamboanga del sur, who are undertaking online class as their

educational platform. For the selection of students at Margosatubig Zamboanga del

sur, they will be pick base on their educational platform during the school year of 2020-

2021.

The population of the chosen research subjects from different Puroks are

indicated in Table 1.
 Table 1

Population of the Chosen Student from Different Puroks

Puroks / Area Number of Students

Purok Rubia 2

Purok Daisy 1 4

Purok Daisy 2 2

Purok Mirasol 4

Purok Dona Aurora 2

Purok Ilang-ilang 3

Purok Bagong Silang 3

Total 20
Data Gathering Procedure

The research survey would be implemented to the students located at

Margosatubig Zamboanga del sur who undergoes online class, and platforms.

The researchers utilize online platforms for the survey. Due to the pandemic, we

were currently not allowed to go outside in order to prevent COVID 19. Online platforms

such as google form or messenger message are the best way to do the survey.

Data Analysis
Ethical Considerations

Researches should consider the following consideration in undertaking their

survey to students at Margosatubig Zamboanga del sur.

 Research participants should not be subjected to harm in any ways whatsoever.

 Respect for the dignity of research participants should be prioritized.

 Full consent should be obtained from the participants prior to the study.

 The protection of the privacy of research participants has to be ensured.

 Adequate level of confidentiality of the research data should be ensured.

 Anonymity of individuals and organizations participating in the research has to be

ensured.

 Any deception or exaggeration about the aims and objectives of the research

must be avoided.

 Affiliations in any forms, sources of funding, as well as any possible conflicts of

interests have to be declared.

 Any type of communication in relation to the research should be done with

honesty and transparency.

 Any type of misleading information, as well as representation of primary data

findings in a biased way must be avoided.

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