Accentuating Internet Accessibility in School. Its Impact to the Academic Performance of the Grade Six Learners

Academic Paper from the year 2020 in the subject Didactics - Common Didactics, Educational Objectives, Methods, grade: 1.0, course: Master of Arts in Education, language: English, abstract: This research assessed the Internet use and its relationship to the academic performance of the grade six learners of an Elementary School in Guizo Mandaue City during school year 2016-2017. As to respondents profile, most of them are 12 years old of which 92 are female while 85 are male; they started accessing the Internet between the age of five or six and access at Cyber Café using PC/Desktop; their frequency use of Internet was more than three hours with verbal description of very high and their most visited website was the social networking sites. As perceived by the respondents, the extent use of the Internet for educational intention was occasionally while social was often and recreational was frequently. Their academic performance was 80.39 which belonged to a Satisfactory Academic Performance. This research found out that there is a negative correlation between learners Internet use and academic performance. It concluded that there is a negative correlation between learners Internet use and academic performance. This means that the more the learners use the Internet for education or social intentions the poorer is their academic performance. The most serious issue/concern encountered by the respondents when accessing the Internet was slow Internet access speed. After a review of the analysis and interpretations of data and findings, it is strongly recommended that the proposal for Improvement Plan for Internet use be adopted.