Effects of Internet to the Academic Performance of Students
CHAPTER I
THE PROBLEM AND ITS SCOPE
Introduction
Life nowadays is impossible without technology. Modern inventions make life easier. Most of the people, especially professionals and students are using every single piece of modern technology. One of these modern technologies is what they called “Internet”. Internet is known as the ocean of information. It is very useful, especially to business and academic purposes of a person. It consists of many privates, public, government networks, of local and global scope, that are linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless and optical networking technologies. This serves as the “bridge” to every people by browsing at any websites, such as Facebook, Twitter, and many other social networking sites. Sharing of information, discussions of specific topic, etc. can be simply carried out using Internet. At the same time, teachers may also contact the parents and guardians very easily utilizing Internet. It is one of the factors that affect the academic performance of students. It adds ideas about other things that make them advanced in any aspects of their class lessons. Information is more accessible through Internet. We have the World’s Encyclopedia is as weightless, free and, instant accessible as Wikipedia. As connection speeds increase and ubiquity of the Internet pervades, digital content reigns. And in this time, free education has never been so accessible. One of the beneficiaries of Internet is the ESEP curriculum students of Liloy National High School. They are the students who are under the curriculum which is higher and more advanced regarding to lessons, than to the regular curriculum. They make Internet as source of their difficult lessons, especially their elective subjects. They usually run towards Internet to enhance and collect different ideas regarding to their difficulties. Mostly internet is sometimes a replacement for a book. The effects of internet to the academic
THE PROBLEM AND ITS SCOPE
Introduction
Life nowadays is impossible without technology. Modern inventions make life easier. Most of the people, especially professionals and students are using every single piece of modern technology. One of these modern technologies is what they called “Internet”. Internet is known as the ocean of information. It is very useful, especially to business and academic purposes of a person. It consists of many privates, public, government networks, of local and global scope, that are linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless and optical networking technologies. This serves as the “bridge” to every people by browsing at any websites, such as Facebook, Twitter, and many other social networking sites. Sharing of information, discussions of specific topic, etc. can be simply carried out using Internet. At the same time, teachers may also contact the parents and guardians very easily utilizing Internet. It is one of the factors that affect the academic performance of students. It adds ideas about other things that make them advanced in any aspects of their class lessons. Information is more accessible through Internet. We have the World’s Encyclopedia is as weightless, free and, instant accessible as Wikipedia. As connection speeds increase and ubiquity of the Internet pervades, digital content reigns. And in this time, free education has never been so accessible. One of the beneficiaries of Internet is the ESEP curriculum students of Liloy National High School. They are the students who are under the curriculum which is higher and more advanced regarding to lessons, than to the regular curriculum. They make Internet as source of their difficult lessons, especially their elective subjects. They usually run towards Internet to enhance and collect different ideas regarding to their difficulties. Mostly internet is sometimes a replacement for a book. The effects of internet to the academic
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