Effects of usage habits of technological devices to school success

Objective: although relationship between learning, studying and school performance are known, it is not clarified why there are significant diffences in terms of school performence between students who heve same skills on the learning and studying. the increase in use of technological devices such as cell phone and computer may be the answer of the question. the purpose of the present study is to examine the relationship between usage habits of technological devices and school success. material-method: this research contains a survey which was applied on 39 medical students who attend to mugla sıtkı kocman university, faculty of medicine. it is identified that which technologial devices equipped by students, the hours that students spend on their devices, their usage reasons and it is statisticly evaluated wheter there is a relation between all these factors and school succes. results: the use of smart phones, owning a laptop or a desktop, duration of tv watching, duration and method of listening to music and quantity of short messages (sms) sent, don’t have an effect on school success. increased duration of connection time to internet has a negative effect on school success whatever way and reason that use for connection. it is observed that playing video games have directly propotional effects on school success. however, the increase in duration of phoning has a possitive effect on school success. conclusion: it was demostrated that usage of technology in educational aim has a possitive effect on school success. according to our findings, also, usage of technology in different areas has an afeect on school succes.. and this result can explain us that why there is a significant differences in terms of school performence between students who heve same skills on the learning and studying. to improve the school performance, it is important to decrease duration that spend on internet and video games. other habits that we evelatuated should not be needed limited.