CHAPTER 1

PROBLEM AND ITS SCOPE

Introduction

It has become pretty easy to get access to relevant information at anytime and anywhere.

This has been possible because of modern technologies like broadband internet.  Lots of data is

being published and indexed online, sites like Wikipedia and YouTube have great original

content that is regularly used for research or entertainment.  With smart gadgets like the iPad,

iPhone, Galaxy tablets, etc., users can easily have access to a vast amount of information

wherever they are through the use of the internet on these devices. So a user on a train can easily

read breaking news while traveling, they can also buy and sell stocks while in the bedroom or

access their smart home temperature on the go. These smart gadgets make it easy to access the

internet anywhere, and this simplifies the way we get information.

Since technology seems infinite, it sparks the brain to work to its full potential.  In the

past, it used to be very difficult to start a business, one had to have lots of capital, and they even

had limited access to business information. Today, it is simple to start a business while at home.

Let’s look at companies like Etsy.com which enable creative people to sell their works online;

this encourages creativity. Another good example is kickstarter.com which helps creative people

get funds for their projects through crowd funding. On this platform, creative developers post

projects to seek funding from the community; this helps them generate capital for their ideas

which later leads to the creation of new jobs and further innovation of technology.  The other

creative works which have been facilitated by modern technology include Google, Apple,

Facebook, Microsoft, and Amazon.

Occasionally a new technology appears which promises to change our lives for the better.

It either improves our performance by working more simply and at a faster rate, or it creates

possibilities and options that did not previously exist. Computational machines are one such

technology. Computers tirelessly perform calculations far beyond human capabilities. They also

create different possibilities for interacting with the world by applying these calculations to

information processing, and thus, form a new arena for social interaction. Through computers,

information and communication technologies have become a major vehicle for change in the

information age (Castells, 2000).

Technologies like the Internet continue the social evolution of communications and

information that began with speech, writing and printing (for an analysis of these influences see

Ong, 1982). The Internet and the World-wide web (Web) represent the latest “disruptive”

technologies (Christensen, 1997) by creating new opportunities for identity formation that

disturb values that have been the mainstay of communication for a long period of time. In the

process, the computer is generating new ethical challenges in many areas of modern life. All the

norms of a pre-computer society, including those associated with education, are now open to

question (Kizza, 1998). For the most part, decisions to adopt these technologies for teaching are

justified on technical grounds.

Yet, despite a seemingly straightforward technical criterion of using the most appropriate

tool for the job, there is little research that unambiguously shows whether introducing technology

into teaching actually improves the quality of student learning. Technology is continually

changing and empirical studies of the characteristics of technology do not provide answers that

remain meaningful for very long.

Statement of the Problem

This research focuses on extent of utilization of Modern Technology among the students

of Saint Anthony Academy in relation to Grades

It seeks to answer the following specific questions:

1. What modern technology do students have at home?

2. What is the time span of students’ utilization of modern technology?

3. What are the impacts of modern technology to the students’ grades?

4. What benefits are brought about by modern technology to students’ grades?

5. What are the proper utilization of modern technology and its application by the respondents?

Statement of Hypothesis

H01. There is significant between Extend of Utilization of Modern Technology among the

students of Saint Anthony Academy in relation to Grades of the respondents to their Academic

Grades.

Significance of the Study

The result of this study is to aware all the students of Saint Anthony Academy of the

modern technology in today’s time, to remind the students of the consequences of modern

technology.

The study is significant to the following:

Students: The students will be aware of the modern of technology. This research will be helpful

of the students in Saint Anthony Academy before they addicted of Modern Technology to their

grades.

Secondary Teachers: Teachers also, they can get benefits to the study as well of the researcher.

Teachers will be able to realize their Modern Technology that would not allowed the student

used during the class hours.

Researchers: As students researchers we are also beneficiaries with our study in, a way that

modern technology that can get appropriate tools and technologies that will be utilized for our

students in Saint Anthony Academy in the future. This will guide of the students to facilities of

the consequences of Modern Technology.

Definition of terms

The following terms are defined to gain more understanding of the study:

Depression-(major depressive disorder) is a common and serious medical illness that

negatively affects how you feel the way you think and how you act. Fortunately, it is also

treatable. Depression causes feelings of sadness and/or a loss of interest in activities once

enjoyed. It can lead to a variety of emotional and physical problems and can decrease a person’s

ability to function at work and at home.

Physical-Bodily, corporeal, corporal agrees in pertaining to the body. Physical indicates

connected with, pertaining to, the animal or human body as a material organism: physical

strength, exercise. Bodily means belonging to, concerned with, the human body as distinct from

the mind or spirit: bodily pain or suffering.

Expectation-The word expectation comes from the Latin word expectation, meaning "an

waiting." If have great expectations, think something good will come your way, but if keep your

expectations low, won't risk being disappointed. Expectation can also describe something that is

supposed to happen, like a teacher whose expectation is that everyone comes to class prepared.

Technology-Internet handled a great problem of space—it allowed us to communicate

with anybody in the world, instantly. However, it did not make us better communicators. In fact,

it took many poor communicators and gave them a massive platform on which they could spread

hatred and fear.

Internet-The Internet, so powerful for sharing text, images, sounds and videos, is now

weakest at doing that for which it was originally designed - exchanging raw data between

researchers. Last month, the National Center for Data Mining at the University of Illinois at

Chicago launched the first version of an infrastructure called Data Space Transfer Protocol, or

DSTP, for creating the next generation web of data.

Scope and Delimitation

The study focuses on the extent of utilization of Modern Technology among the students

of Saint Anthony Academy in relation to Grades. This will be conducted just within the campus

of Saint Anthony Academy.