Abstract
Today's technological advances are very rapid and increasingly sophisticated with the creation of gadgets. Gadgets greatly affect the development of elementary school students, especially developments in social interaction. The purpose of this study was to analyze the influence of the old usage of gadgets with the social development of school children. The design of this research is correlation analysis with the cross-sectional approach. The population in this study were all 1-5 grade students at Jabon 2 Mojoanyar Elementary School in Mojokerto Regency with 125 children. The sampling technique uses total sampling. The sample of this study amounted to 125 children. The research instrument used a social development questionnaire. Data analysis using crosstab. The results of this study indicate that most children use gadgets> 2 hours a day, 89 children (71.2%), and most school-age children have sufficient social development, 83 children (66.4%). The results of the crosstab analysis show that the longer children use gadgets, the less social development of children. Children who use gadgets over time from the time limit specified by some experts make them addicted and less sensitive to the surrounding environment. Children tend to be individual and passive in interacting with their social environment and peers.
 
 Keywords: Gadget, social Development, school-age children
Highlights
Current technological advances are very rapid and increasingly sophisticated
The results of this study indicate that most children use gadgets> 2 hours a day, 89 children (71.2%), and most school-age children have sufficient social development, 83 children (66.4%)
The results of the old research on the use of gadgets show that most children at Jabon 2 Mojoanyar Elementary School in Mojokerto Regency use gadgets more than 2 hours a day
Summary
Many advanced technologies that have been created make such a big change in human life in various fields. It seems that the gadget can have a huge impact on cultural values. Every person in the whole world must have a gadget. When children are getting addicted to playing the gadgets they have. Parents sometimes point to gadgets as the main cause of the laziness of children. The activity of children surfing in the world of gadgets, not just one or two hours. Some use it for more than 12 hours per day. Various facilities offered by various types of gadgets seem to anesthetize children (Zulfitria, 2018)
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