DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

REGION III
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PAMPANGA HIGH SCHOOL
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DIGITAL AGE: THE INFLUENCE OF CONTRAPTIONS IN MILLENNIALS TODAY

AQUINO, BIEN CARLO J.

GLYDEL L. SIMBULAN
Practical Research 1 Teacher

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 DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
REGION III
Division of City of San Fernando
PAMPANGA HIGH SCHOOL
PHS Blvd., Brgy. Lourdes, City of San Fernando, Pampanga Tel.
No. (045) 961-4261 website: [Link]

In today's generation, you're a millennial, and you're comfortable with the analysis your age bunch
gets from more seasoned ages. What these individuals don't perceive is that as an individual from the
millennial age, you have been encountering genuine difficulties for your whole grown-up life through
no issue of your own. You see opinion piece, web-based media posts, and news sections each day
denouncing recent college grads for their decisions. Rather than censuring different ages, individuals
should attempt to comprehend and identify with the issues that have formed your life. Technology
and gadgets are now indispensable in our daily lives. In the past few years carrying a miniature
computer (a smart phone) in a pocket has become commonplace. Technology helps advance the
human race forward and makes doing mundane things more efficient and repeatable. Technology has
helped create the information revolution. Understudies are not by any means the only recipients to
innovation; educators can likewise profit incredibly from cutting edge devices. It is significant for
each instructor to remember, notwithstanding, that innovation can likewise deliver intricacies and
unfortunate results that ought to be kept away from no matter what in the study hall.
According to Teaching Religion Using Technology in Higher Education, 3-17, 2018, it
inspects the part of gadgets in the homeroom, offering a setting for reevaluating their instructive
guarantee. I pick this point on the grounds that as I saw that in each individual, I meet them they
holding their devices and they continue going to refresh their informal communication knowledge.
They keep on take a photograph, talking, tweeting and. and so forth and on account of this a portion
of the understudies are diverting their classes. It qualifies conversations of "advanced locals" and
"learning styles" to represent why educators battle to fit third screens (i.e., gadgets) into instructive
conditions. Accordingly, it offers an elective teaching method that rethinks gadgets as learning
instruments. Twenty- to thirty-year-old in Philippines collaborate with innovation like no other age
before them and this is influencing how they need to be instructed in advanced education and how
they need to lead and hope to be driven in associations, in the wake of graduating. Recent college
grads here in Pampanga, expect additionally to be driven genuinely and to be treated as esteemed
individuals. While ages contrast in their utilization of different innovations, a 2018 Center overview
tracked down that more youthful web clients additionally were more probable than more established
Filipinos who utilize the web to say the web decidedly affects society.
Technology can be useful whenever utilized appropriately in practically any situation.
Consequently, a homeroom can be an ideal spot to present innovation and its advantages. Technology
can associate with the learning cycle by removing the understudies from "conventional" techniques
for guidance and opening various habits of learning. The utilization of I Pad’s, for instance, can
contain applications (all the more generally alluded to as applications) that can transform learning
into brilliant, intuitive and fun games. Such games occupy understudies from the strain and stress that
can here and there be incurred if an understudy is battling in getting a handle on a specific idea. To
forestall things, for example, digital harassing, sexting, hacking, and robbery, instructors ought to
teach their understudies on the positive and negatives that can happen from utilizing advancements.
This interaction should begin when technology is acquainted with the kids in their homeroom.
Educators ought to likewise make certain to make and authorize homeroom rules for when any
mechanical gadget is being utilized. In conclusion, instructors ought to make certain to keep and
carry out the ISTE Standards for educators to improve their understudies' prosperity. Not exclusively
would technology be able to help battling understudies, it can likewise be a route for understudies to
rehearse what they have realized. Such advancements can likewise be utilized to build up an idea that
the educator has instructed
Many other researchers found out that normally students who spent more time on electronic
gadget had high level of dependency towards gadget, poor academic performance and also health
status. A few impediments happen during leading the examination including restricted chance to
gather information. We hear it constantly. Twenty- to thirty-year-old are sluggish, entitled, and not at
all like the ages who preceded them. The genuine issue, nonetheless, is that we have neglected to
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comprehend what their identity is, the thing that they need, and how they fit into the texture of the
always evolving economy. It merits investigating the way that the issue with 20 to 30 old may not be
restricted to them or even about them. It could be an issue that society made. While there have been
benefits to this data age and contraption upheaval, it has made an unquenchable hunger for data. It's
presently an assumption that data be promptly accessible on request from anyplace. This is the time
of moment delight. While innovation has encouraged humanity, does our present utilization design
antagonistically sway our insightful and imaginative capacities.
In this industry, modern industry took a big role in our daily life and routines. We experienced
a lot of adjustments and insignificant factors that mold the society. There are aging factors that affects
both positive and negative edges that form the formulation and disadvantages may occur to
circulating changes that our modernized industry has partake in our technology. But with moderation,
this is no risk and a good and better way to be more enhanced. Gadgets equipped with internet have
transformed our lives in several ways and brought about a paradigm shift in our dependence on
technology to perform key tasks in our everyday routine. Capability to share daily life or special
events instantly with thousands of people and see reaction in a matter of minutes, if not seconds.
This study serves as an eye opener to the young or most called millennials for them to be
aware of the growing technology in our daily routines. This study will be focusing more on about the
“Awareness “and the “Responsibility “of handling the enlarging modernization we will be facing.
This coincides with how you deal with its benefits, advantage and disadvantages, which covers the
whole aspect of all the enlargements that may always occur. This consists of a lot of factors in the
overall performance of having a Digital Age and its influence as it grows. It will gain you the
knowledge as you learn all its Pros and cons. Giving you the right to be entitled of being
knowledgeable. These days contraptions are vital for each individual on our age now. They can't
leave without this thing and they can't remain along without those staff. In consistently the cutting-
edge innovation were improving, to keypad, to contact screen, to thick devices now it turned out to be
flimsy. Nearly everybody dreams off to have contraptions. A portion of individuals, why they need to
purchase a device to make them renowned or to draw in individuals. The devices these days were
known as the renowned telecom on out age. Other explanation, why a few groups are purchasing
these devices it is a result of the person-to-person communication site. They continue purchasing of
those with the goal that they got refreshed on the long-range interpersonal communication sight.
Indeed, contraptions are significant for everybody except there was an impact on each device.
With our study, it will also have its flaws and imperfections that may result to failures. We
must overcome. You must cope up with all the possible negativities our study has. Coping up doesn’t
mean you need to grow. But you need to have that fallback plan that may serve as your Plan B in
areas that may not work. Delimiting the boundaries that always occur. This is my investigation and it
discusses devices and the impact on each understudy. It talks likewise how significant the
contraptions yet there is a motivation behind why a few understudies are not centering their
investigation.
This segment talks about hypothetical foundation to the current exploration gives a short
portrayal of various examinations carried on the adequacy of versatile device in language learning
guidance. This part likewise presents the perspectives on various specialists about the effect of
portable devices in showing learning settings. These are some essential examinations that have
explored the advantages of applying advanced devices to improve capability in English language. A.
Significance of Mobile Gadgets in Teaching-learning Contexts
The significant job that data innovation as of now plays in English instruction can't be
overemphasized. The clearest benefit of utilizing the mechanical vehicle for language guidance is the
simplicity and idealness of access. It is recognizable that there is a developing inclination for
understudies to utilize their cell phones for learning exercises. It likewise implies that we can learn
English through these cell phones. A similar benefit goes with the terms from tuning in, talking and
perusing yet not that great at composing part. 72 % of the understudies concur that utilizing intuitive
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sight and sound instruments to learn English can improve the capacity in every one of the four
periods of language learning. Similar percent of the understudies will pick the intuitive mixed media
apparatuses to learn English however the conventional way on the off chance that they have the
decision. What's more, the primary explanation they don't pick the apparatuses is they don't feel great
working the intelligent interactive media instruments' foundation (p. 190). In light of the adroit
conversations above, it is clearly demonstrated that portable contraption as current innovation
instrument offers unimaginable instructive interaction for learning English as unknown dialect and
can give a lot of advantages to improve English language learning and educating measure. It likewise
demonstrates that refined innovation like PC programming, person to person communication web,
online recordings, portable contraption, and tablet applications emphatically affect learning English
as an unknown dialect. Thusly, innovation instruments obviously can be powerful in improving the
understudies' language and relational abilities.
B. The Influence of Mobile Gadgets in Language Learning
The development of versatile contraption is an incredible accomplishment in the space of
correspondence in view of its comfort and openness contrasted with the fixed communication which
is just utilized in explicit regions and at explicit time. As to that assertion, Ramadan (2014) expresses
a few reasons that cause instructors of English to request that their understudies utilize cell phones in
the language homeroom. First these electronic gadgets are accessible and modest these days in
everywhere on the world. Second, such little cell phones are not difficult to convey and use in the
class and furthermore understudies discover composing SMS letter on their mobiles more intriguing
than on the white board or on their note pads. English language educators should be taught on the
viability of versatile innovation in instructing exercises. As well as preparing the instructors on cell
phone innovation, they ought to likewise be urged to analyze and visualize imaginative routes
through which innovation can be utilized to make new possibilities for study hall guidance. The
quantity of cell phones across the world have effectively outperformed the quantity of PCs and other
electronic devices, and it is to be sure a chance for English language educators to improve strategies
and materials for intelligent and charming meetings to spur the understudies in their study hall. In
light of the past investigations directed by some expert analysts, the current examination
fundamentally worried about the effect of versatile contraption in EFL learning. Adjacent to that, it
likewise explored the understudies' and instructors' discernment on the versatile device utilization in
language learning circumstance as a creative way that ideally can invigorate increasingly the
educating mastering practices and understudies' English abilities. The discoveries of this investigation
are relied upon to give more arrangement in regards to the utilization of versatile contraption in
advancing understudies' English language skills and give viable ability for (Indonesian) EFL
professionals intrigued by this field.
C. Members
Thirty college understudies concentrating in the primary semester bookkeeping as their
significant subject intentionally took an interest in this exploration. The specialists took the
authorization of the concerned authorities in the college organization and the educators prior to
leading the field study. The students who took an interest in the investigation were educated that their
reactions are intended for research purposes as it were.
D. Self-report Inventory for Students
A self-report stock is a survey which gives a portrayal of character characteristics. Oneself
report stock comprised of two yes-no inquiries (Q.3 and Q.4) and 28 self-report articulations (Q.10 –
Q.37). Four scales (Agree - Strongly Agree – Disagree - Strongly Disagree) were given underneath
every one of the assertions. Understudies needed to peruse every one of given articulation and circle
the scale that mirrored their assessment most properly. Understudies were told to communicate their
perspectives impartially.
E. Survey for English Teachers
A survey was utilized to inspire English instructors' assessments about the adequacy of
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portable devices in improving student’s English language abilities. The instructor survey comprised
of four open-finished inquiries. Educators were mentioned to communicate their perspectives
recorded as a hard copy. Since instructors have a significant job in the educating learning measure,
their insights would be helpful for homeroom research. Five English educators reacted to the given
open-finished inquiries.

Methodology
Qualitative research includes gathering and investigating non-mathematical information to get ideas,
assessments, or encounters. It very well may be utilized to accumulate top to bottom experiences into an issue
or create novel thoughts for research. Qualitative research is something contrary to quantitative examination,
which includes gathering and investigating mathematical information for measurable investigation. Qualitative
research is usually utilized in the humanities and sociologies, in subjects like humanities, social science,
schooling, wellbeing sciences, history and others (Bhandari, 2020).
The researchers will utilize qualitative research to look for the conclusions, musings and sensations of their
respondents. It will offer dreams to various issues and helps in creating ideas or speculations for likely
quantitative research. The research design that was used in this research is phenomenology. Phenomenology is
a form of qualitative research that focuses on the study of an individual’s lived experiences within the world.
Although it is a powerful approach for inquiry, the nature of this methodology is often intimidating (Neubauer,
2019). It likewise investigates the encounters of an individual and assists us with understanding the
significance of individuals' lived encounters. Phenomenology is fitting for this exploration since we are finding
and searching for the lived encounters.
The participants will be 1 junior high school, 6 senior high school, and 3 college students in a total of 10
students that are experiencing a lot of time for contraptions. They will be chosen by means of purposive
sampling method. The members should encounter in this topic. Purposive sampling method, otherwise called
critical, specific, or emotional inspecting, is a type of non-likelihood examining in which specialists depend on
their own judgment while picking individuals from the populace to partake in their reviews. The analysts will
utilize this sort examining technique since they center around specific attributes of a populace that are of
interest, which will best empower to respond to investigate questions (Alchamer, 2021). For the instrument,
the analysts select semi organized meeting guide. To assemble solid, similar subjective information.
A non-face to face interview is significantly more viable for this investigation as it is more exact, precise and
permit the analysts the capacity to have questioners assemble itemized data about perspectives and conduct
towards this point that will an assistance a ton in information assortment measure. For the instrument, the
reseacher will utilize a semi-organized meeting guide in social occasion solid and equivalent qualitative data.
Legitimacy was looked for all through the capacity of inquiries that supported the assessment and conference
of our examination educator and other exploration validators with aptitude in the travel industry to acquire the
appropriate information that is pertinent to this investigation. As peak the legitimacy of the instrument, as per
legitimacy is the degree to which an instrument estimates what it should quantify and proceeds as it is intended
to perform. In this investigation, the explores aggregated and gathered data to wind up with their own
arrangement of inquiries.
In collecting data, the researchers used a structured survey questionnaire answered by the participants which
serves as the instrument of the study. As stated by Good (1984), questionnaire is a list of questions about a
particular topic, with spaces provided for the response to each questions, and intended to be answered by a
number of persons. The researchers used structured survey questionnaire for the convenience of both parties
without disregarding the validity of the research. The researcher conducted a survey among the selected
students to collect the primary data needed for the study. Related literatures and related studies are also used to
collect and look for secondary.
Through the surveys that have been conducted on the past few days, the researchers found out that majority of
the students don’t take a lot of time for contraptions. Furthermore, the reasons of the participants are it could
affect their health. Others have said that we have not reached the level of “addiction,” but that technology is
still changing kids’ behavior in unhealthy ways. According to the study, 60 percent of the Millenials today
those between the ages of 17 to 23 say that spending too much time online is a “major” problem facing their
age group, with about nine in 10 teens dubbing it a problem. More than half of teens 54 percent say they spend
too much time on their cellphones, and 41 percent say they overdo it on social media.
In this research, ethical considerations fill in as a key component. It's anything but a need for the reseacher to
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agree in advancing the reason for the reseach to pass on real information, realities and evasion of mistake. The
analysts ensured that in this proposed study an assent of support structure had been given to the members.
Also, reasonable possibilities from the arrangement of rule were guaranteed by the scientists and these are
given to the participants to know who among them are able to take part in the investigation are guaranteed by
the analysts. The responsibility, trust, common regard, and decency are the indistinguishable qualities required
among every one of the gatherings engaged with an examination also. (Bulghar, 2019). Also, security and
classification are settled to every one of the members to fill in as an indication of intensity of wandering the
exploration just as keeping a reliable connection with the participants, staying away from the spillage of data.

FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION

The findings of this study are based on the quantitative and qualitative data obtained from students’ response
to the self-report inventory and teachers’ response to the qualitative questionnaire.
These students spend between four hours and 18 hours per day on their mobile gadgets for chatting with their
friends. The findings of the study suggest that many students use mobile gadgets that come with English
software like English electronic dictionaries so as to look up unfamiliar words. Most of the students who use
mobile gadgets have only limited knowledge about the features of mobile technology. During the
undergraduate education, students at all levels and branches should take the imitative to learn the basics of
mobile technology. English teachers’ and undergraduates’ awareness of navigational issues, file formats, the
size of files, types of files, memory cards and the effectiveness of operating systems can lead to successful
outcomes.

A. The Extent to Which Undergraduates Depend on Mobile Gadgets for Communicating in English
The findings of the study suggest that 83% of the students use Indonesia while only 13% of the students use
English when communicating via their mobile gadgets. The findings also reveal that 90% of the students,
available on the mobile gadgets, to understand English words and sentences. On the positive side, mobile
gadgets can be helpful to connect and communicate with people living in other countries. A disadvantage of
mobile gadgets is that the students’ language learning abilities may be hindered when machine translation
displays inaccurate meanings of a given English word. Lack of guidance while using these translation software
programmers can lead to students comprehending inaccurate meanings and thus leading to the breakdown in
the communication process. In EFL classrooms, students are often frustrated with the traditional teaching
methodologies, and it is time for English teachers to try and test mobile technology integrated activities to help
students develop a positive attitude towards language learning. English teachers should encourage students to
work productively and cooperatively on language learning activities, using mobile gadget technology in the
classroom.

B. Students’ and Teachers’ Perceptions of the Positive Influence of Mobile Gadgets on Improving English
Language Skills
The findings of the study suggest that 72% of the students think that mobile gadgets can improve their, and
30% of the students believe that they need not learn English spelling because they can always use a mobile
gadget. They belief that they can carry their mobile gadgets around at all times and that therefore, it is not
necessary to learn other that may hinder them from reaching higher proficiency levels. It is observed that
students often depend on their mobile gadgets. The teachers who participated in this study are of the opinion
that mobile gadgets can certainly enhance students’ communication skills and also make them independent.
Moreover, they think that students can develop independent learning habits and access resources repeatedly
from different sources available on the internet. However, before introducing mobile technology to the
classroom, issues like classroom management, variations in the mobile gadgets software programmes and an
effective methodology have to be addressed systematically.

C. Mobile Gadgets as a Tool to Improve or Hinder Students’ English Language Learning Abilities?
The findings of the present study reveal that teachers and most of the undergraduates who participated in the
survey are of the opinion that mobile gadgets can accelerate students’ English language learning abilities. One
of the teachers pointed out mobile gadgets “are in our reach any time, and we can use them without any time-
limit” and another teacher stated, “helps to verify the usage of English words.” A student expressed his view

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by stating that “inside the classroom, I sometimes use it for translation and outside the classroom, I use it to
chat in English.” Though the teachers of English interviewed are aware of the advantages of using mobile
gadgets in the teaching-learning process, they strictly abide with the traditional course materials prescribed for
the classroom use. 22% of the students say that teachers do not allow them to take notes on mobile gadgets
while 73% of the students are of the opinion that they cannot remember everything they read from their mobile
gadgets. In this context, English teachers need to find creative ways to integrate the mobile technology with
the course materials for enhancing their students’ English language learning skills. It is also important to note
that using a mobile gadget for unlimited hours in a day can cause health hazards and increases the potential for
stress and insomnia. If these problems are not addressed at early stages in a students’ academic life, the use of
mobile gadgets can lead to poor performance in academic exams. The findings of the study reveal that 51% of
the students believe that mobiles gadgets are the main cause for poor performance in their university exams.

Conclusions

The led research demonstrated that there is a solid connection between the utilization of portable innovation
and understudy's conduct. Absolutely, the utilization of versatile applications and innovation impacts
understudies' conduct, scholastic execution and instructing procedures. On the other hand, the instructive goals
got an immediate connection between with the utilization of portable innovation in the study hall conditions. It
is difficult to prevent understudies from utilizing portable during the course of talk convey and subsequently
educators need to receive new procedures and techniques to adjust this and conquer issues raised because of
the utilization of versatile applications. Comparative with the investigations and understanding of information,
the accompanying ends were drawn:
1. Cellphones were constantly utilized by the understudies, PCs were sometimes utilized by the understudies
and tablets were only here and there utilized by thestudents in learning.
2. The utilization of contraptions has a reasonably certain effect in learning because of its highlights that
expand the capacity of the understudies to accomplish more things butit additionally has a marginally adverse
consequence since understudies are undoubtedly tobe occupied by it.
3. There was no huge relationship between's the recurrence of utilization and theimpact of devices which
implies the recurrence of the utilization of devices doesnot influence its effect however all things considered, it
depended on how we use it.

Recomendations

With the entirety of the previous examination, translation, and finishes of thisstudy, coming up next are
unequivocally suggested for conceivable game-plan.
1. Future reseachers can lead a comparative report and improve a few blemishes.
2. Another examination ought to be led as follow-up examination to investigate
further the effect of devices in learning.
3. Social media and its applications should be adopted by teachers during the course of their lecture delivery.
4. There is need to incorporate audio and visual materials during the course of lecture delivery to motivate
students to concentrate on their educational objectives rather than using their mobile applications without any
educational [Link] media and its applications should be adopted by teachers during the course of their
lecture delivery.
5. Future analysts can utilize this investigation for references.

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