Toquero Cathy Mae D, Talidong Karen Joy B
College of Education Mindanao State University General Santos City Philippines.
College of Teacher Education Sultan Kudarat State University-ACCESS Campus Tacurong City Philippines.
Hum Behav Emerg Technol. 2021 Jan;3(1):194-198. doi: 10.1002/hbe2.214. Epub 2020 Aug 26.
Digital technology has served people for educative purposes and formation of virtual social connections for the co-existence of human relationships amid the COVID-19 pandemic. This article presents the socio-educational implications of the newly-formed virtual relations made possible through technology. It explores the use of emerging technologies and the effect of these technologies to fulfill the social and educational needs of the stakeholders in times of a crisis or emergency. The use of emerging technologies paved the way for the stakeholders to establish virtual relationships with a common goal to rid quarantine boredom, provide relief efforts, and educate the virtual community relative to COVID-19 while maintaining a safe environment. The authors recommend for an empirical research on the newly-existing online group relationships and how these virtual relationships and emerging technologies can affect social relations and human learning behaviors.
在新冠疫情期间，数字技术服务于教育目的，并为形成虚拟社交联系以促进人际关系的共存发挥了作用。本文介绍了通过技术实现的新形成的虚拟关系的社会教育意义。它探讨了新兴技术的使用以及这些技术在危机或紧急情况下满足利益相关者社会和教育需求的效果。新兴技术的使用为利益相关者建立虚拟关系铺平了道路，这些虚拟关系有着共同目标，即消除隔离期间的无聊、提供救援努力，并在保持安全环境的同时，就新冠疫情对虚拟社区进行教育。作者建议对新出现的在线群体关系以及这些虚拟关系和新兴技术如何影响社会关系和人类学习行为进行实证研究。
