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

Abstract

Abstract: Technology in the digital era in stills classroom teaching with the learning tools which transform the curriculum of the 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 the 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 the 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 social media tools to the learning process helps to increase the teachers’ digital skills to impart new knowledge to the children and to overcome the limitation of learning-based technology in the COVID-19 era in the world.

Keywords: technology, social media, educational system, covid-19 era, learning tools