Abstract
This article investigates the culture of the student online community of pre-service teachers relative to their engagement in social media at a state university in the Philippines. It analyzes students’ engagement to facilitate authentic learning within the bounds of social media platforms during the COVID-19 pandemic. The author used a digital ethnographic design to investigate the use of social media as an emerging technology to supplement pre-service teachers’ authentic learning during COVID-19. The deductive thematic analysis, which was anchored in the lens of constructivism and social media engagement theory, revealed that the use of emerging technologies such as Facebook expands students’ cognitive, behavioral, and emotional engagement in the online community. Although students have difficulty identifying unofficial reports, they expressed a positive response to using social media to supplement pedagogical platforms amid the crisis. The study recommends conducting an empirical investigation into the responsiveness of Facebook as an emergency platform to supplement pedagogy during the global online experiment.
Highlights
Digital technology has mitigated for the provision of education through virtual learning and remote teaching amid the lockdowns and school closures
Facebook served as a platform for the students to exchange ideas, experiences, and conversations while pursuing their educational interests through social media amid the COVID19 pandemic
The students in this study have expressed that the use of emerging technologies such as Facebook have offered to them relevant updates from the COVID-19 and created beneficial experiences for them amid the home quarantine boredom (Figure 2)
Summary
Digital technology has mitigated for the provision of education through virtual learning and remote teaching amid the lockdowns and school closures. “Online education in its various modes has been growing steadily worldwide due to the confluence of new technologies, global adoption of the Internet” The advent of emerging technologies provides the possibility for the implementation of education even beyond the conventional classrooms. Emergency online learning is functional depending on the accessibility of the students when it comes to technological facilities (Arasaratnam-Smith & Northcote, 2017). Institutions worldwide have adopted digital technology as a means for learning to not disrupt the education of the students despite the effects of the pandemic to the teaching and learning process
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