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Abstract In line with Mapua Institute of Technology's mission to advance and preserve knowledge, this research shows how mobile phone contributes to the development of students as it is being used as a learning tool and determines the extent to which this gadget yields to unfavorable responses. In the flow of the research, some of the technologies and learning tools used in every classroom in Mapua are presented and consequently, the research will show the link between education and mobile phone. And as the School of Languages, Humanities and Social Sciences (SLHS) improves students' rational thinking, students can determine whether mobile phone is learning or degrading tool. In this research, mobile phone is seen not just as communication device rather, as a powerful student device. The research is conducted within the Institute and the sample population consists of students. Data are gathered through personal interviews, both face-to-face and via e-mail. The result of this study shall reflect the stand of the students whether mobile phone is beneficial or detrimental to learning.

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Recommendation The researchers recommend that people should take advantage of the benefits that the mobile phone offers and find solutions for its disadvantages. Furthermore, the researchers recommend: To the professors and teachers,  So they can utilize the related research in the field of technology education and consider the study as a technological education curriculum from a global viewpoint; the study can become a potential technique that can be useful to the method of their teaching.  Use this study as additional guidelines when using mobile phones during class hours. To the students,  Mobile phone can be used as an additional aid in the learning process.  Further evaluate the uses of mobile phone in a way that its advantages are increased and disadvantages are decreased. To the future researchers,  Broaden the scope of the study to precisely determine the extent by which mobile phones are beneficial and detrimental.  In finding more comprehensive ways to improve the study, cite more features of mobile phones, aside from those cited in the study, which could be helpful or not in learning process.

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Introduction Mobile phones, commonly known as cell phones, seem to dominate the living practices of all technology enthusiasts in the world, most especially the students. This is made possible through the innovations made in telecommunications that stemmed from telegraph, telephone, and radio - the devices where today's mobiles phones originally derive from. Before, owning a mobile phone is a sign of luxury but now, it has been very common. The mobile phone adoption is widespread that even kids at the age of four owns and knows how to use one. Most probably, people fully utilize mobile phone, at any desired age, because of its ever increasing features, affordability and availability. The number of students using mobile phone is gradually increasing. Livingston (2009), in his article, claimed that the usage of mobile phone among students have become virtually universal. The advantages despite disadvantages are further argued, even though the Mobile Revolution has changed nothing, compared to the Internet Revolution that has changed everything in higher education. To emphasize, 'Mobile Revolution has changed nothing in higher education' because mobile technology is not fully integrated in most formal educational institutions. In the case of mobile phones, the debate is still on air whether to ban or allow this gadget in classrooms. Prensky (2001) claimed that the biggest problem facing today's education is that the educators who preferred teaching

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slowly, one at a time, step-by-step and seriously, is struggling to teach the students whose learning skills is completely different from them that is, - a fast, multi-tasking, networked and fun learning. This implies that many educators ignore the benefits of using mobile phone in learning because they are not born in the Digital Age. On the other hand, those educators who consider mobile phone as more beneficial than detrimental are born in the Digital Age. In this research, Digital Age is defined as the period wherein the internet, mobile devices, and other high-tech gadgets have become an integral part of the people. To just add technological tools in classroom, like mobile, however, will not create an effective learning alone. This is explained by Prensky (2012), that not only the tools should be changed but also the students' thinking and the education itself to fit the future. Since today's technology is rapidly evolving, students should also respond rapidly in an appropriate way. Mobile phone could or could not help them become educated quickly. And to become educated does not only mean knowing how to use technology. According to Prensky (2012), it should be that students "do new things, new ways, and get a different and better education because of technology." Now, the issue is whether mobile phone will be beneficial or detrimental to learning once it is allowed in classrooms. With the several aids provided by mobile phone, can we rely on them as a learning tool? Or will its negative impacts, like distraction and

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cheating, still override its advantages? Mobile phone is indeed a great innovation that provides a lot of opportunities, whether it is in learning, or otherwise. Its appropriate use can serve as users' portal to wider spheres of opportunities and capabilities thus, responding to the technological demands of the 21st century.

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