Effects of Social Media in the Academic Performance of Senior High students Of Palawan National School Introduction Background of the study DOCX

Title	Effects of Social Media in the Academic Performance of Senior High students Of Palawan National School Introduction Background of the study
Author	Arjohn Batul
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Effects of Social Media in the Academic Performance of Senior High students Of Palawan National School Chapter I Introduction Background of the study The Palawan National High school is having more enrolees every year. When the school year comes; the Students of the Palawan National in Senior High School Students are addicted on the social media like Playing Computer Games, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Tumbler, Tiktok, watching online even the class. Students must really know the importance of social media to be able to fulfil their own will. Technology nowadays is becoming more and more high tech. And it's improves day by day for us to use in our convenience. This technological evolution affects us but most are the "Millennials". In research we will focus on the Senior High School Students of Palawan National School ages from 17-19 years old. For us to get more specific answer and accurate answer form our said research. The definition of social media is "the relationship's that the exist between networks of people". However, students spend most of their time using social media like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc..., then doing their own homework. People use social media to connect to other people who are far from them. Because of the evolution of social media, it's much easier and convenient to use than before. Social media can be also use to express your feeling towards someone or something. People are fascinated how they call tell their opinions using social media, usually for politics, education, or even entertainment. And social media really affects the student most, because they are usually the one using. The driving factors for adoption of social media are the progressively ubiquitous access, convenience, functionality, and flexibility of social technologies (Brown, 2010; Schroeder, Minorca and Schneider, 2010). These factors have made the adoption of social media very easy 3 and have tremendously improved mankind's life by exposing him to different ways of creating and sharing information. An additional benefit of social technologies provided on the internet is that they are frequently free or require marginal investment, thereby eliminating a potential barrier to adoption (Brown, 2010). As we know, nothing interesting is ever completely one-sided, so it is for social media as it comes with both positive and negative effects. There is a correlation between social media usage and academic performance of students in universities. There have been various views and opinions which recognize four major advantages of social media use in higher education. These include; enhancing relationship, improving learning motivation, offering personalized course material, and developing collaborative abilities (Wheeler, Yeoman's and Wheeler,2008; Rifkin, Long Necker, Leach and Ortia,2009). Also, Riccardo et al (2007), argued that students are socially connected with one another and therefore share their daily learning experiences and do conversation on various topics through social media whereas Kuppuswamy and Shankar (2010), reviewed that social network...