A STUDY ON THE EFFECT OF #RP612FIC TO GRADE 10 PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS IN MANILA TOWARDS APPRECIATING PHILIPPINE HISTORY (2016) / John Carl A.; Balahim, Ma. Joanna Erreevee O. Gloria, and Angeline DC. Rodriguez. 6
By: Balahim, John Carl A.; Gloria, Ma. Joanna Erreevee O. and Rodriguez Angeline DC. 4 0 16 [, ] | [, ] |
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Thesis (Undergraduate) Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila, 2016.;Bachelor of Mass Communication. 56
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ABSTRACT: In today's generation of advanced technology and modernization, social media proved to be one of the most essential tools in different kinds of communications such as giving information, in advertising and advocacies. Being an active users of social media, the researchers decided to conduct a study about a certain topic that was made viral by netizens, making it the number 1 trending topic on Twitter from 2012-2015, by using the label #RP612fic. The hashtag was also brought to Facebook by online users, making it more popular than before. #RP612fic is an acronym that means Republic of the Philippines June 12 fiction and aims to celebrate Independence Day by creating small stories, and reading those made by others. Paolo Chikiamco, the original creator of #RP612fic, encourages online users to post their own version of alternate stories about Philippine History or anything related to it. Then, he would compile it and post in his blog called rocketkapre.com for readers to see. The researchers believed in the power of social media, as well as the hashtag, leading them to perceive a potential for #RP612fic to benefit the youth in appreciating Philippine History. The importance of this study is about getting the initial response of Grade 10 public school students in Manila to the effect of #RP612fic towards appreciating Philippine History. High School students nowadays are active users of social media on different platforms. They see a variety of posts in the internet that can be either helpful or harmful to them. The researchers believed that #RP612fic is informational, creative and can be used to motivate students to appreciate Philippine History. With this, the researchers wanted teachers to use #RP612fic as a tool in teaching the mentioned subject to aid the students in learning Philippine History in a more creative and entertaining way. In order to conduct the study, the researchers used the quantitative and qualitative method wherein they run a survey to Grade 10 students and interview schedules with history teachers. Based from the gathered data, all resulted to low. On the other hand, majority of the history teachers disagree but they have their respective reservations. According to them, if changes were to be made in order to amend #RP612fic, they would reconsider using it because the believe it could motivate and help their students in different ways. #RP612fic's effect might still be low for now, but it's not too late to make some improvements in order to increase its effect to Grade 10 students, teachers and other audiences as well.
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