Relationship Between the Information Technology Used and the Cognitive Development of School-Age Children

Abstract

The drive to increase information technology development and make everything digital has significant implications for education, especially education of school age children (6 to 12 years old). The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between the use of information technology and cognitive development of school age children. This study has used the quantitative correlation method with cross sectional approach. The sampling technique used was a non-probability sampling method, namely quota sampling. The sample in this study was 100 grade students of SDN 7 Ciamis recorded in 2018, divided into 3 classes. The used of information technology in the very high category was 32 people (64.0%), the used of information technology in the high category was 18 people (36.0%). The cognitive development in the very good category was 11 people (22.0%), the good catsegory was 28 people (56.0%), the moderate category was 10 people (20.0%) and the less category was 1 person (2.0%). There is a significant relationship between the used of information technology and the cognitive development of grade V school age children.   Keywords: information technology, cognitive development, school-age children.