Proceedings of the 2nd Early Childhood and Primary Childhood Education (ECPE 2020)

Challenges of Learning-Based Technology in the Covid-19 Era Through the Use of Social Media Implementation in the Educational System

Authors
Titilope Olufunke Olusola-Fadumiye, Jamalludin B. Harun, Jonathan Ojo Oke
Corresponding Author
Titilope Olufunke Olusola-Fadumiye
Available Online 12 November 2020.
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.201112.051How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Technology, Learning-Based, Social Media, Educational System, COVID-19 Era, Learning Tools
Abstract

Technology in the digital era instil the classrooms teaching with the learning tools which transform the curriculum of educational system and improve the students’ motivation towards learning. The technology is also needed for the development of education which is supported with the use of social media tools such as Facebook, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Instagram, Twitter for learning process to take place anywhere and anyplace so that there will be a contact relationship with the students and the teachers. Especially as the occurrence of the COVID-19 outbreak has interrupted the school education all over world, which leads to the closed down of schools and many exams to be taken are cancelled or postponed. Therefore, the challenges of today are to reduce the negative impact the pandemic had on learning in the school education and improve learning through the implementation of social media for a substitution for a good teacher because the pandemic has reduced students and teachers’ interaction supporting the children emotional and social skills in the learning environments. This article examines the use of social media to accord with the COVID-19 eruption in the educational system. The results of the study showed that implementing of social media tools to learning process helps to increase the teachers’ digital skills so as to impart new knowledge to the children and to overcome the limitation of learning-based technology in the COVID-19 era in the world.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2nd Early Childhood and Primary Childhood Education (ECPE 2020)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
12 November 2020
ISBN
10.2991/assehr.k.201112.051
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.201112.051How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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