Coping with Technology: Children's Experience with Learning from Home during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Technology, long feared to have a deleterious effect on children (and thus best avoided), has become a necessity for distance learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. This article explores how distance learning has been experienced and understood by children, many of whom had little prior knowledge of technology and had rarely applied it. At the same time, this study reveals how education has transformed as children have been compelled to use technology to continue learning. This article employs a qualitative-descriptive approach to analyze data collected through interviews, which were conducted remotely using Zoom and Google Meet. This article shows that the technology used for continued education during the pandemic has not simply caused problems for children, but also laid the necessary framework for replacing the teacher-centered model with a student-centered one. Further research is recommended, with a focus on comparing experiences at different schools and levels of education, as this would allow new directions for education policy in Indonesia to be explored. © Copyright 2023 by THE PACIFIC

Demotivation Of AFL Students In The Online Learning

Technology, which has been believed to ease and maximize a learning process, has resulted in demotivation among AFL (Arabic as a Foreign Language) students with online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. The current research aims to map out the forms of demotivation among AFL students, analyze the factors, and show the implications on student learning outcomes. It employs a qualitative method with a narrative approach that relies on the results of interviews with students and data from student evaluations. The finding reveals that the lack of student participation indicates demotivation among AFL students during the learning process. Four factors were affecting the downturn: infrastructure, structure, partner, and teacher. This study suggests further studies to discover ways to deal with demotivation so that they are more enthusiastic about online learning.

Children's Future Adversity: Learning Loss Risk during Online Learning in Covid-19 Pandemic

School closure policies during the covid-19 pandemic have changed from face-to-face to online learning. This change inevitably impacts the unpreparedness of schools, parents, and students in managing learning, which may cause learning loss in children. On its official page, the Indonesian Ministry of Education stated that due to the covid-19 pandemic, the implementation of online learning had caused a significant learning loss. This study analyses the risk of learning loss due to online learning in Indonesia in terms of children's future adversity. This study used a qualitative descriptive method with survey techniques using Google Form and data analysis used the Miles and Huberman model through three stages: reduction, display, and data verification. This study involved 1229 elementary school students spread over 82 cities from 34 provinces in Indonesia. The results showed that there has been learning loss in children in the form of low academic and life skills achievement indicated by difficulty in understanding subject matters (cognitive domain), lack of confidence in expressing opinions (affective domain), and difficulty in accomplishing projects or learning tasks (psychomotor domain). The implication of learning loss is the decline in the quality of abilities, academic achievement, competitiveness, and welfare of children in the future. The results of this research could be recommended as a reference for educational practitioners and insights for future research. © 2023 Eskisehir Osmangazi University. All rights reserved.

The Academic Demoralization of Students in Online Learning During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Academic moralization, which has been internalized through educational institutions with teacher supervision at schools, now falls into a decline in line with the implementation of distance education due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. This article aims to show that an educational system that does not offer in-person teaching leads to students ignoring the values of academic morality, such as plagiarism, discipline, and responsibility. This article employs a qualitative descriptive method by relying on online news mapping data as a secondary source and verified data from interviews with elementary school students as the primary source. The results of this study indicate that online education as a learning solution during the pandemic has caused students to plagiarize, cheat, rely on others to complete their tasks, and lose an overall sense of discipline and responsibility. This study suggests a new direction of moral education that does not only rely on teacher supervision but rather builds the wisdom of students' independence upon learning.