SAYING YES TO INTERNET ACCESS MUST BE LIMITED

TO STUDENTS BY GUEN CANOY

A POSITION PAPER

Nowadays, we are being surrounded by different enhancement in our

environment and daily living. We are already in the 21 st century in which all that we
need is accessible and easy to use which is why we are being independent. We already
experienced the advancement of technology wherein it helps us to make our daily living
easy to deal with. Talking about technology enhancement, let us have this as our focus:
internet access. Internet is very important today because most of the transactions can
be found and accessed through internet. It is very important in the sense that we can
easily get relevant information needed in our works. It is important especially to those
students. With its help, it will help them to get things done.

According to (Rickert, 2001), evidence abound that excessive internet use has
been associated with problems of maintaining daily routines, school performance, and
family relationships. A study conducted by (Bragdon and Dowler, 2016), on college
students’ technology use and academic performance indicated that upperclassmen
spent significantly more time using technology for academic and work related purposes,
whereas underclassmen spent more time using cell phones, online chatting and social
networking. According to (Olatokun, 2008), a large proportion of secondary school
students in Nigeria had been involved to some extent in using the internet in their
everyday lives for about four to five years now. (Ogedebe, 2012), observed that Nigeria
tertiary students prefer browsing the internet overnight to that of the day. Research
shows that most students spent an average of 2570.6 (42.8 hours) per week engaging
in some form of technology. Evidence from Denizli on the effects of technological
devices on student’s academic success suggested that most students have been late in
submitting their assignments because they spend more time on social media instead of
doing their homework (Yesilyurt et al., 2014).
 Therefore, with the involvement of our generation today in technology specifically
the internet: it should be limited in access to students. It should be and will always be
limited especially those prohibited sites which are not suitable for young children or
students because it might affect how they interpret our society. Internet access should
have limited access to student because there are some contents and sites in the
internet which exposed pornography contents wherein it might affect their development
especially how they think. It will actually lead them to do negative activities which can
cause negativity to the society. They should have only access to relevant information
which will help their needs in school.

REFERENCES

Bragdon, R. A. and Dowler, K. (2016). College Student Technology Use and Academic
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Ogedebe, P. M. (2012). Internet Usage and Students’ Academic Performance in Nigeria

Tertiary Institutions: A Case Study of University Of Maiduguri. Academic
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Olatokun, W. M. (2008). Internet access and usage by secondary school students in a

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Rickert, B. (2001). Adolescent cyber surfing for health information: a new resource that
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Yesilyurt, E., Basturk, R., Yesilyurt and Kara, I. (2014). The Effect of Technological
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