Anime Negotiations in Public Pedagogy During the Pandemic for Elementary School Students

The purpose of this study is to examine how anime was negotiated in public pedagogy during the Covid-19 pandemic for elementary school students. Digital immigrants are challenging the debates surrounding the use of animation as a public pedagogy medium. The paradigm shift in digital immigrants’ responses to anime as public pedagogy from the perspective of teachers and digital natives’ responses from the perspective of elementary school students is also identified and analyzed in this study. The data for this study were collected from various sources, and the results of a questionnaire distributed to teachers throughout Indonesia, to see how digital immigrants reacted. for anime opportunities as a pedagogical public during the pandemic for elementary school students. The findings of the study reveal that digital immigrants are still unable to envision how future education will be affected by the pandemic, which fully explores the use of digital technology. Digital natives, on the other hand, are ready to collaborate with IoT as a learning medium. Digital natives see anime as a form of public pedagogy with an educational component. Through its audio-visual, design, and popular appeal, anime also facilitates the attraction of creative, imaginative, and story-telling learning for elementary school students.