Development of Activity-Based Learning Integrated with Social Media to Enhance Digital Empathy for Grade 5 Students

Abstract

The objectives of this research were: 1) to develop and evaluate the effectiveness of activity-based learning integrated with social media to promote digital empathy among Grade 5 students, aiming to meet the standard criteria of 80/80; and 2) to compare students’ digital empathy levels before and after the implementation of the designed learning activities. The study employed a Research and Development (R&D) methodology. The sample group consisted of 15 Grade 5 students from Wat Laem Chedi School in the second semester of the 2024 academic year, selected through purposive sampling. The research instruments included the activity-based learning integrated with social media to foster digital empathy and a digital empathy assessment tool. The data were analyzed using mean, standard deviation, and the Wilcoxon Signed-Rank Test. Research findings revealed that 1) The developed activity-based learning integrated with social media demonstrated an effectiveness score of 85.93/85.56, which exceeded the predetermined criterion. 2) The post-test scores of digital empathy among Grade 5 students were significantly higher than the pre-test scores at the .05 level of significance.