Elementary School Challenges during Pandemic
The pandemic situation presents a challenge for students, teachers, and parents to use technology to sustain the educational world, especially elementary students who most still rely on parents to carry out online school. At the same time, this challenge benefits that learners can become self-reliant learners by following online lessons. However, technology remains unable to replace the role of teachers and learning interactions between learners and teachers because education is not only about acquiring knowledge but also about value, cooperation, and competence. According to studies I do with a few elementary school students and their parents in the rural areas where I live, showing that the problematic condition of students is that students find it difficult to understand the learning materials presented by teachers, students are not motivated to learn, students are not well informed, parents are overworked and unable to teach their children, and a pa...