Exploring digital parenting awareness during Covid-19 pandemic through online teaching and learning from home
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2021-10Author
Noormaizatul Akmar, Ishak
Syed Zulkarnain, Syed Idrus
Ummi Naiemah, Saraih
Mohd Fisol, Osman
Prasetiyo, Wibowo Heru
Obby Taufik Hidayat
Firas Tayseer Mohammad Ayasrah
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There is concerned that the students’ knowledge and skills are not par as those who experience normal education before COVID-19 pandemic. Digital parents ought to participate in their children’s new normal learning method because the students cannot have proper face-to-face education with their teachers and lecturers except online Teaching and Learning from Home (PdPR). For data collection, a questionnaire was developed using Google Form, and have been distributed to the children who are in schools, colleges and universities through WhatsApp application of the students or their parents for the children in the primary schools. The questionnaire consists the open-ended semi structured questions with some survey information along to each question. The emerging themes from the data are explained in Descriptive Analysis based from the 89 participants perspectives. The findings show that most of the children are ICT and digital literate due to the PdPR, and the things that they cannot control makes the PdPR become hard such as slow internet signals. The students agree that the parents could be qualified and skilled as digital parents if they got the financial and ICT skills supports from the Government of proper PdPR contents, and pedagogy of teachers and lecturers.