Facebook for Educational Purposes: Its Actual Usage and Issues Encountered by Senior High School Students
- May 19, 2021
- Posted by: rsispostadmin
- Categories: IJRISS, Social Science
International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume V, Issue IV, April 2021 | ISSN 2454–6186
Charlotte Mojar, Dea Illy Coral, Micca Ela Balagon, Rufaina Harun, Ranelle Sonet, Jake Visitacion and Romenick A. Molina
Zamboanga City State Polytechnic College, Philippines
Abstract
The recent COVID-19 pandemic brought a lot of changes globally, particularly in the education sector. With this, teachers used different platforms to serve as an avenue for teaching – learning and one of which is the use of Facebook. This study utilized descriptive quantitative research. A total of210 student – respondents answered the questionnaire, which was adapted and modified from Nguyen (2017). Frequency, mean, and t-test were used to analyze the generated data. Results revealed that the majority of the students used smartphones as a device to access Facebook and they were connected with their friends and teachers. They used Facebook daily and spend 1 to 6 hours per week. In addition, Facebook was being used as a learning platform. Most students used Facebook to get information and to communicate with their classmates about school-related topics. When data on actual usage of Facebook were grouped according to gender, a significant difference exists, while, there was no significant difference when the data were grouped according to track. The common issues encountered by the students were poor internet connectivity, verification of education-related resources, and easily distracted by other Facebook contents. When data were grouped according to gender and track, results revealed that there was no significant difference.
Keywords: Facebook, Senior High School, Educational Purposes, Learning Platforms
Introduction
The Covid-19 pandemic causes global imbalances and challengesin different sectors such as in health, business and education (Sakketa & Khoeber, 2020; Sumner et. al., 2020). One of the measures implemented to reduce the spread of coronavirus is the temporary closure of academic institutions. Nonetheless, for the teachers to continue to cater for their students, the useof different teaching–learning delivery approaches were adopted. These are modular, pure online and blended learning approach.
