Abstract
Recently, the corona virus as known COVID-19 is an influenza-like symptoms virus that can give a deadly effect on humans. World Health Organization (WHO) has declared that this virus is a “Pandemic” and there is not the country that considered safe from this virus. Indonesia is one of the countries affected by the Corona virus and according to the data from the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) of Indonesia on April 2, 2020, 1,790 people were positively infected by the corona virus. In this research, we will explain the knowledge of undergraduate students, especially the teacher education department about the corona virus to prevent the spread of the virus in its environment. The method that was used in this study was a qualitative method and 116 undergraduate students in the elementary education teacher department were used as respondents. The data was taken from March 23rd-31st,2020 from online questionnaires form. There were five questions in the online questionnaire form to test the level of student understanding of this virus. The research shows that almost all respondents (97.44%) stated that they knew information about the corona virus. Besides, the data shows that almost all respondents know about prevention methods and indicators of infected people with the corona virus even though the information is not known in depth.
Highlights
In recent years, the rapid development of information technology can make the information through to everyone, especially for smartphone users (Iskandar, 2018)
Since December 2019, the virus, which began in Wuhan City, began to spread throughout the world and World Health Organization (WHO) has declared that COVID-19 is a "Pandemic" and there is not the country that considered safe from this virus (Daw, 2020)
The research was begun by distributing online questionnaires about the identity of each respondent and the answer from the respondent was explained as follows: 3.1 Do you know about COVID-19 (Corona Virus Disease 2019)?
Summary
The rapid development of information technology can make the information through to everyone, especially for smartphone users (Iskandar, 2018). The infected people cases will be projected to increase if the information about the dangers of the corona virus is not well conveyed to the public especially in Surabaya. In this study will be presented how deep information about corona virus is known by undergraduate students, especially elementary education teacher department at Universitas PGRI Adi Buana Surabaya. With this information, it is expected to be able to share their information with the surrounding community so the spread of the virus can be limited. Because teachers are required to be able to utilize technology in getting information to face the industrial revolution 4.0 (Rachmadtullah, 2020)
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