...The Impact of Social Media on the Study Habits of Grade Six Pupils at San Luis District Introduction Social media sites continue to grow in popularity; it is a premise that technology is a vital part in today’s student success equation. Many students are spending countless hours immersing in social media, such as Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube. Thus, it is no surprise that there is a close relationship between high school students and media. Various researches have been conducted on how social media influences student retention at schools. Many parents are worried that their children are spending too much time on Facebook and other social media sites and not enough time studying. As of January 2013 there were 1 billion monthly active users on Facebook alone. Other social media sites saw a large amount of monthly active users as well: YouTube (800 million), Google+ (343 million) and Twitter (200 million). For elementary pupils, social media can either be a good thing or a bad thing. It can be very beneficial to have as teacher that make their students use social media can help their pupils become more engaged in what they are learning in the class. Learners like when teachers are using social media to help them learn. This shows that teachers are trying to be modern and willing to use new tools on the internet. For example Twitter can be used to ask questions, to brainstorm, in class discussions, and to help other students connect with others in their class to get help on...
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...The Influence of Social Media on the Study Habits of La Salle University-Integrated School Grade 8 Students CHAPTER 1 The Problem and a Review of Related Literature Nowadays, the advent of technology is quickly emerging before our eyes and undeniably, it takes a vital part to people’s lives of today. One evidence on this is the development of social media. Social media can be defined as the relationships that exist between network of people. Over the last few years, the online population grows exponentially with the easy access to the internet. With the evolution of social media, it changes the way one communicates and how one finds and shares personal information, exchanges ideas, feelings, photos and videos at a very overwhelming rate. Social media sites that allow social interaction include Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, MySpace, and many other various blog formats. Through these sites, youth of today can share things about themselves for the whole world to view. These social media sites offer the youth a new way to access communication and entertainment. The use of social media is one of the most common activities of today’s children and youth. Undeniably, students are increasingly utilizing social media for friends’ news feeds, personal updates, events and activities, notes and messages. They use these sites for posting status of their experiences in school hoping to have more people hit ‘Like’ or give their ‘Comments’. The voluntary messaging function, commonly...
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...AG:(Show the youtube clip) Hello/Hey, my fellow classmate once again if you don’t know my name yet but name is Rashad Copeland I’m up here to deliver my Speech. : I’m here today to convince you to change a habit or least try it once to take a 5 mixture showers SP: My main purpose of today speech is that to pursiver cut back on the water usage and save time plus h much water we use a day the effect of taking long shower. CS: My credibility on this topic that I take a 5 minute shower most on a daily base even today Preview: Today I will try to convince to take 5 minute shower and here is some of my reason why you should because of the water usage and the effect of taking long shower and the 5 minute challenge Transition I. How many times you take a shower during out the day? If you say more than 2 and you are not average person. Water usage A) Most of us in this classroom use water in an everyday routine like brush your teeth, wash clothes and ect. But do you how much water you use 1. The average person take a 10 to 15 minute that is roughly 150 to 250 liters of water is wasted you have a 10 min shower, you waste 150 liters of water. Multiply that over a week and you have 1,050 liters of water. Multiply that over one year and you waste 50,400 liters of water. 2. If you have a 20 min shower, you waste 300 liters of water. Multiply that over a week and you waste 2,100 liters of water. Multiply that over one year, and you waste...
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...CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Background of the Study Education is a form of learning in which the knowledge, skills, and habits of a group of people are transferred from one generation to the next through teaching, training, or research. On-the-job training, also known as OJT, is teaching the skills, knowledge, and competencies that are needed to perform a specific job within the workplace and work environment. On-the-job training uses the regular or existing workplace tools, machines, documents, equipment, knowledge and skills necessary for an employee to learn to effectively perform his or her job. It occurs within the normal working environment an employee will experience on the job. It may occur as the employee performs actual work or it may occur elsewhere within the workplace using training rooms, training work stations, or training equipment. On-the-job training is most frequently supplied by another employee who can competently perform the job that he or she is teaching. On-the-job training is occasionally performed by an external provider as in the case of specialized equipment. In another example, a vendor trains a marketing system a group of employees is adapting to their own work procedures. While the goal of OJT is often to teach basic workplace skills, it also instills aspects of the workplace culture and performance expectations in the new employee. OJT is also the approach organizations use to provide new employee on boarding information. On-the-job training...
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...who spend more time on Facebook spend less time in studying. User students spend time for five hours studying while students who are non-users studied eleven to fifteen hours per week which has significant that Facebook users have an averaged of low grades rather than those non-users. Karpinski added that there may be other factors that can affects the study habit of students such as personality traits that link Facebook use and lower grades and some students would still find other ways to avoid studying that still get lower grades. Sharon Gaudin from ComputerWorld Company says that college students have always had study distraction from video games to parties and other entertainments. But Facebook really takes distractions in the study. Bored students can spend hours updating accounts, check new updates, looking at pictures and playing games or any applications on the site. And because of modernization, mobile phones and mini laptop with wifi source which presence of Facebook can go anywhere. As Paul Kirshner author of the daily mail quoted that most students who have Facebook account affects not only the study habits but also the task at home. Students tend to be a multitasking person to keep updated and to do the task at the same time. Instead of make the work done earlier, students makes the task faster in result that works would take long and leads to more mistakes....
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...JOMARI CUISIA And EDWARD YACAP A research paper submitted to MS. WIMALYN F. CAINAP as a partial fulfilment of the requirements for Research. March 2013 Dedication To our parents, teachers, friends and our inspirations. Acknowledgement The researchers would like to extend their sincerest gratitude to those people who helped in their paper. They are the following: Ms. Wimalyn Cainap, the researchers' adviser, for helping the researchers know what they must do in this study and for correcting grammatical error in this paper. Ms. Carla Fiel, who taught the researchers in statistical analysis Of course the panellists; Ms. Maurich May Cainap and Sir Russel Valdez who criticized this study. Aside from that, the researchers would like to give the sincerest gratitude to the respondents for answering the questionnaires; the researchers’ subjects for their voluntary participation in their experimental procedure and for their willingness to take challenges to them and consequences. The researchers would like also to thank their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Cuisia and Mr. and Mrs. Yacap, for giving financial contribution to their study. Abstract This research paper is entitled, "The effects of social networking sites to the academic excellence of the students in SAGIS". The researchers had decided to study this because SNS is getting more popular among teenagers and students and curious of the effects of SNS to them. Since the students are still high school students...
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... CONTENTS INTRODUCTION SECTION-1 SECTION- 2 SECTION-3 How Social media is replacing Reporting Results Consequences Page-3 Page-5 Page-7 Page-8 INTRODUCTION “Social Media” is a group of Internet‐based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations which allows the creation and exchange of user‐generated content. As of June 2010, 22% of time spent online (or one in every four and a half minutes) is spent using social media and blog sites worldwide (“Social Networks/Blogs Now Account for One in Every Four and a Half Minutes Online,” 2010). The global a verage time spent per person on social media sites is now nearly five and a half hours per month.Popular social media include Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Flickr, and Tumblr. Facebook is a social network service launched in February 2004. As of January 2014 it has more than 800 million active users (Nicholas Caris on, 2014). Accordingto Mashable.com:Facebook is a social utility that helps people communicate more efficiently with their friends, family and coworkers. The company develops technologies that facilitate the sharing of information through the social graph, the digital mapping of people's real‐world social connections. Anyone can sign up for Facebook and interact with the people they know in a trusted environment. Facebook is a part of millions of people’s lives and half of the users return daily. Twitter describes itself as “a real‐time information network that connects you to the...
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...CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1.1 Introduction- Social Networking Sites few years back, usage of social networking sites became popular around the world. Social networking sites are also known as social networking website. Social networking sites (SNSs) are increasingly attracting the attention of academic and industry researchers’ fascinated by their affordances and reach. Social networking sites are web-based service that building an online community of people that share same interest, or activities and explore others people interest. Social network sites (SNSs) such as FACEBOOK, TWITTER, MYSPACE, CYWORLD, and BEBO have attracted millions of users, many of whom have integrated these sites into their practices. As of this writing, there are hundreds of social networking sites, with various technological affordances, supporting a wide range of interests and practice while their key technological features are fairly consistent, the cultures that emerge around SNSs are varied. Most site support the maintenance of preexisting social networks, but others help strangers connect based on shared interests, political views, or activities. Some sites cater to diverse audiences, while others attract people based on common language or shared racial, sexual, religious, or nationality-based identities. Sites also vary in the extent to which they incorporate new information and communication tools, such as mobile connectivity, blogging and photo/ video-sharing. Besides that, a social networking...
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...STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE AS INFLUENCED BY THE USE OF SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES AND OTHER ONLINE ACTIVITIES Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION Background of the Study In this age of globalization, the advent of internet is something that has shaken almost all spheres of personal, social and professional human life. Wikipedia.org, 2012 cited that with the rapid growth of people who use or have access to the Internet, millions of people can stay connected together using the web provision called Social Networking Sites (SNSs). According to Chelly and Mataillet, 2012 that social networking sites are interactive web links that give people an opportunity to create, share and publish information, build communities and communicate around the world. Specifically, social networking is a common online activity that allows people to communicate with those they would not usually have contact with and this communication includes information, news, ideas, pictures, technology, cultural practices, and anything else that people can say to each other in face to face interactions (wikia.com, 2012). Moreover, SNSs provide place for other online activities like searching information, gaming, shopping, viewing videos, listening music, uploading and viewing pictures, reading posts, blogging, and online banking; and, those activities are positively the reason why many students are interested in checking out these sites (Asilo et al, 2010). Indeed, a study in the USA revealed that teenagers are keen...
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...objective is to understand the differences between Australian and International (live in Australia) Generation Y on media and entertainment choices. Results There are similarities between the groups of local and International Generation Y on media and entertainment choices. Internet is the primary media choice for both local and International. There were no significant differences on what websites the two groups visit. Local Generation Y tend to watch their favourite shows mainly from TV, they spend more time on watching TV than International. While International tend to watch the favourite shows from DVD and the Internet other than only from TV. There were no significant differences in cinema, computer games, radio and digital media usages between the two groups. English is the main language for both of the groups when entertaining. Conclusions There are no major differences between the two groups regarding the way they use a number of media types. English is the...
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...Life is Like a Gamble “Life is like a gamble, sometimes you win, and sometimes you lose. But whatever cards in life, whether club, spade or diamonds, always remember - never play with the heart” (Anonymous, SearchQuotes). There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the cruelest one of all is being able to fathom the distinction between having fun and being smart. Unfortunately for adolescents, their impression of having fun is very different from that of adults. Therefore, when it comes to gambling, their incorrect impression of “fun” might lead them towards the unforgiving process addiction. Here, we will discover the sad but true statistics of children and young adults addicted to gambling. Luckily for these individuals, there are ways to escape and prevent this demanding lifestyle, and they will be touched on. However, if they choose not to opt out of this routine or their impulses take over, significant dangers can become prevalent. These perils can lead to an unhappy life and in the worst cases, death. Therefore, it is exceptionally important to bring these three things to light in this assignment. With the widespread acceptance of gambling as a socially acceptable activity, the trend is rising dramatically. Over the last twenty years, legalized gambling has increased about 3000 percent. In the United States, people legally wager about $600 billon on average (Lew, Hall, Williams, Page 400). This does not take into account the...
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...this to sleep deprivation. I thought that this may have been due to nutritional imbalances, such as a deficiency of vitamin D. However, this muscle contraction is actually referred to as myokymia. The common causes of eyelid twitches includes the intake of too much caffeine, overworking, excess stress, and sleep deprivation (Matsuo et.al 2015). Spending too much time staring at a computer screen can also cause the onset of involuntary eye muscle movements. Most of these causes can be applied to my late night activities. With the exception of Saturday and Thursday nights, I got an average of 5-6 hours of sleep during the two week period, which is below the 7-9 recommended hours of sleep for people in my age group. I also fell asleep while youtube videos were being played on my laptop. I am exposed to the lights of my laptop while in the dark night time environments, which has played a role in my daytime vision, along with my ability to fall alseep. This, along with the stresses caused by coursework, likely caused my myokymia. I noticed the eye twitches were not present during the days where I got at least 7.5-8...
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...DIPMGTOP14 Operational Planning Assignment Part One Submitted By : Tim Avenell (00123920T) Submitted To : Vincent Le Submitted On : ??/03/2015 DIPMGTOP14 Operational Planning Submitted by Tim Avenel Dated: 21/03/2015 Table of Contents CONTENTS Task 1: Developing the plan ..................................................................................................................... 3 Executive Summary: ............................................................................................................................. 3 Chain of Approval ................................................................................................................................. 5 Stage 1. Presentation of report to line manager. ............................................................................. 5 Stage 2 Presentation by the Project Team to the Sustainability Committee ................................... 5 Stage 3: Presentation of the Report to the Executive Management Team ...................................... 5 Stage 4: Presentation of the Report to the Board of Directors ........................................................ 5 Project Initiatives ...................................................................................................................................... 7 Goal: .......................................................................................................................................................
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...industry analysis using Porters Five forces will look into the external factors and the SWOT analysis will examine the idea of Gerraroom. A marketing strategy including a product positioning and a pricing strategy will be comprised. Further a communication strategy consisting of personal selling and events will show an overview of the action plan that the compa 3. Consumer analysis 3.1 Key figures, Trends and movements Almost 65% of the online population (54 million) (Wiki) have used faced book in the past month, (95%) and (74%) between the ages of 16-20, 21-24 respectively in the younger generation category. Youtube comes second with (50%), twitter (23%) windows live (14%), Linkedin (13%), google+ (12%) and Spotify (10%). Moneysavingexpert.com has as many users as Twitter. Spotify primarily a music service provider with users now able to see friends listing habits and share music via face book with 10% of their users spending 14 hours a week using their service. (YouGov.2013) About 25% of Facebook users have said that they use Facebook less compared to 12 months ago, with a further 19% expected to use the site less in the coming year, however 53% of Linkedin customers are more positive about the site and 30% of them would use the site more in the next 12 months. Further numbers indicate that 44% of the online population pay no attention to products liked by friends and 43% would not even talk about a brand even if they see some positive information on the sites. (YouGov.2013)...
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...are the positives and negatives of UNMe’s current media plan? Current media plan: * 30-second TV ad on most popular programs for teenage girls * Full-page magazine print ad in beauty & fashion magazines * 60-second radio on Top 40 * A corporate website * Online banner and display ad on the most popular websites for teenage girls * “key word” Google Positive: multiple ways can make UNMe reach maximum targeted market of women 12 to 24. The media she chooses are consistent with the style of UNMe, like Gossip Girl, American Idol, Top 40 radio and other online banner ad on girls’ favorite websites. She spends most money on TV ad, on which people spend most time on ad. Negative: audiences watching TV are declining. Consumer’s media habits were rapidly changing. They are turning from traditional media, such as TV, magazines and radio to new media choices. Consumers were devoting much more time to online channels. Since there is advertising clutter, the percentage of advertising that consumers remember was as low as 1% to 3%. So having more channels may lead to more costs than revenue. 3. What are some potential benefits and risks to utilizing Web 2.0 media tactics for UNMe? Benefits: 是不是那四个consumer co-creation, social affiliation, digital self-expression, sharing. Consumers can directly contribute to the online conversation. Women of 12 to 24 can create their own design of UNMe jeans on Facebook and share their designs. Web 2.0 makes consumers more like participants with other...
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