The Effects of Computer Technology to Students Lifestyle...

The Effects of Computer Technology to Student’s Lifestyle and Study Habits†. CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Background of the Study In the years where computers are not yet invented, students are not yet engaged in activities using technologies. Students rely on books and visit library facilities to study, read their notes and to review their school lessons. During those years, despite the lack of computers and hi-tech gadgets students still achieve high and good grades and the students are still focused on their studies. They strive hard just to attain higher and better grades in their education. As years passed, industrial evolution occurred and great changes and improvements happened. One of these changes is the invention†¦show more content†¦But as usual, things can have a positive and a negative effect. Students benefit from computers but they are also affected by the bad influences that computers cause. According to what we have observed in our present time, the true essence of the proper use of computer technologies is slowly being forgotten and ignored, thus, becoming a problem and concern of most parents and teachers. Some parents say that computer is a distraction to their child’s education because most students nowadays are addicted to compute games like Counter Strike for the boys and social networking sites such as Facebook.com for the girls. Students spend their money and waste their time doing this kind of things rather than focusing on their studies and attending school. Students are not thinking that too much time they spend with computers also consume too much electricity everyday which become an additional expense in part of the parents. Teachers also worry about the students on using the computer students nowadays just copy and paste their assignments and submit them without reading and analyzing the content. The ability of the students in critical thinking and their sense of creativity and originality is slowly being lost because students now just rely on what they find and search on the computer.