Problem and Its Setting
Problem and Its Setting
Problem and Its Setting
Introduction
social bookmarking, social curation, and wikis are among the different types of
social media. It is widely used primarily for communication, share information and
entertainment. It also allow the users to interact with each other in a fun and
creative way given the fact that we humans are depending on social interaction to
continue our existence. Social media has found its way from a simple telegraph to
technologies.
The roots of social media stretch far deeper than you might imagine. The
delivered by hand from one to another. The earliest postal service dates back to
550 B.C., and this primitive system would become more widespread and
streamlined in the future centuries. Then in 1972, the telegraph was invented but
later in 1890 and 1891, a big breakthrough in technology happened that change
the course of social media. That year, telephone and radio was invented.
Technology began to change rapidly in the 20th century, super computers were
created in the 1940s. Starting from that, the scientists and engineers began to
Social media has various significance in the society aside from being a
media such as analytics and insights on different topics or issues for study
purposes. This helps create better student training strategies and shapes student’s
and instructors can reach their students off campus easily via social media
platforms where they can share and access information and ideas.
When it comes to social media and education, some parents and teachers
view these platforms as distractions that negatively influence students. But when
used in a right way, social media can enhance a student’s learning journey.
Research has shown how beneficial social media can be in terms of learning.
Through these platforms teachers can connect with the students and incorporate
social media into their lessons, making them more interesting, relatable and
engaging.
sleep, eye strain, stress, and other health-related problems. These problems can
hinder student’s performance at school. And every time a student use social media
in academic purpose, he/she attempt to multitask by checking various media sites
Ul Haq and Chand (2012) investigated the usage and popularity of famous
social media network (Facebook) among university students with special focus on
the gender based comparison and the impact of the selected medium on their
academic performance. The two researcher evaluate the pattern and frequency of
Facebook use among university students, 60% users agree that social medium has
of social media on academic performance, there was also an opinion that Facebook
makes it hard for them to perform the best on their career performance. However,
the researcher feels that the later opinion is not very clear and needs further
investigation.
“Emerging Adulthood”, wrote that the students who spent the most time using
social media had “fewer academic behaviours, such as completing homework and
attending class, lower academic confidence and more problems affecting their
school work, like lack of sleep and substance use. Though social media is made
for convenience and other good uses, we cannot just set aside the negative effects
This study will be conducted in the urge to weigh both positive and negative
Conceptual Framework
Number of Social
Media Users
Academic
Number of Social Performance of
media platform Grade 12 GAS
used students of Oriental
Mindoro National
High School
Frequency
dependent and independent variable as the status of social media usage exhibits
This study will attempt to determine the effect of social media in the
academic performance of Grade 12 GAS Argon. This study will try to answer the
following questions:
1.3 Frequency
3. Is there a significant relationship between status social media usage and the
Research Hypothesis
This study will limit its coverage on Grade 12 GAS students of OMNHS. Its
main purpose is to identify the best possible solution regarding this problem.
This study will consider every aspect of social media that creates an impact
in the student’s academic performance. Each respondents will be given the same
questionnaires to answer. And this study will only focus on the current Grade 12
This study will be undertaken to find out the effects of social media on GAS
Argon students through their academic performance. Benefiting from the study
Students. The direct recipients of the output of this study are the GAS Argon
students. Any possible solution to the problem can pave way to a better academic
and reasons of the students in a poor academic performance and devise a better
Parents. The research benefits the parents of the students who is experiencing
the negative effect of using social media through the information and solutions
that will be given by this research. They can also be aware of the present problems
Administrators and staff. This study will help them to think and come up with
good programs and activities that will help the students become literate and
who would plan to make any related study of the social media and student’s
academic performance.
Definition of Terms
development.
Curation - Collaborative sharing of web content organized around one or more
time.
microblog.
Multitask - Deal with more than one task at the same time.
services.
Social Media User – someone who is engaging with social media via
Streamlined - Something that works better because it’s been made more
efficient or modern.