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The document discusses smartphone addiction and its impact on students' academic performance. It notes that some studies have found smartphone addiction can negatively impact students' ability to focus, make appointments, and adhere to schedules. Some students may value online friends over real friends and feel lost without constant smartphone access. The document also questions whether unrestricted smartphone use helps or hinders students' academic success, as excessive internet searching may prevent meaningful learning. Overall, the relationship between smartphone addiction and academic achievement is complex, with some research finding negative impacts and other research finding positive or mixed effects. More comprehensive study is still needed to understand this relationship fully.

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Research 2

The document discusses smartphone addiction and its impact on students' academic performance. It notes that some studies have found smartphone addiction can negatively impact students' ability to focus, make appointments, and adhere to schedules. Some students may value online friends over real friends and feel lost without constant smartphone access. The document also questions whether unrestricted smartphone use helps or hinders students' academic success, as excessive internet searching may prevent meaningful learning. Overall, the relationship between smartphone addiction and academic achievement is complex, with some research finding negative impacts and other research finding positive or mixed effects. More comprehensive study is still needed to understand this relationship fully.

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The term "addiction" is currently used to describe Internet, gambling, behavioral issues, gaming, and

smartphone usage. Some people use their smartphones while operating a vehicle or crossing the street,
which might cause accidents. While students struggle to focus during lectures, children display addiction
to smartphone games. The following are examples of specific issues.

First, using a smartphone makes it difficult for people to balance their everyday lives. Users could
struggle to focus, make appointments, or adhere to set schedules. Some people may feel lightheaded,
dizzy, have wrist discomfort, and have trouble sleeping.

Second, some smartphone users seem to value their virtual friends more than their actual friends,
according to some academics. When they are cut off from their online friends, these people feel lost.

Third, there is also unrestrained smartphone use. Instead of consulting pals, users would rather use their
smartphones as resources.

Last but not least, people who sought to kick their smartphone addictions ran across difficulties. For
instance, Kwon and colleagues found that those who use cellphones develop "impatience, worry, and
intolerable behavior" when they are not using them.
Students can utilize smartphones to search the web for answers to questions presented to them, which
can be extremely variable during the pandemic.

It is equally applicable in face-to-face learning, but the issue is that cellphones are taken for granted.
Students will not learn anything if they are continuously searching things on the internet. Teachers will
have a more difficult time assessing a student's true academic position.

Teenagers are also prone to playing and not studying. The average screen time of pupils is (data), which
is quite concerning because of the time squandered on gaming rather than learning.
When it comes to students using smartphones in their academic path, there are still some questions
that require attention. The questions are, do students improve academically from using smartphones? Is
it assisting in the academic success of students? The more children who use smartphones, the more
they are exposed to a variety of both beneficial and harmful consequences.

The smartphone is gradually becoming an appealing learning tool for enhancing distant education
teaching and learning. Its application ensures flexible course delivery, allows learners to access online
learning platforms, course contents, and interact digitally.

However, as youth, particularly students, become more reliant on technology in all aspects, there is an
increasing need for consistent and comprehensive research into whether Smartphone addiction is
beneficial to students or has a negative impact on their academic performance. Many studies on this
topic have been conducted on various populations, and they have found a good and negative
association between Smartphone addiction and academic achievement.

Lepp, Barkley, and Karpinski (2014) investigated the relationship and discovered a negative impact of
smartphone addiction on academic performance in college students. Smartphone addiction has a
favorable effect on life satisfaction but a negative impact on academic achievement (Samaha & Hawi,
2016; Raza et al., 2020). Our study will investigate into the use and impact of smartphones as a learning
tool on the academic performance of highschool students.This study would provide a more in-depth
look at the implications that a smartphone could have on a student's academic performance, as it is still
unclear whether Smartphone addiction is beneficial in students' lives or whether it has a negative or
positive effect on students' academic performance.

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