CoronaVirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been declared by the World
Health Organization (WHO) as a pandemic. This pandemic has affected teaching
and learning activities in Indonesia. The Ministry of Education and Culture is
responding to this with a policy of learning from home through online learning
and it is not recommended to do face-to-face learning, it means to decrease the
spread of the Covid-19 among students. Because of this students must be able to
use technology and various types of online learning media. Based on that
phenomenon, there is a change in the learning atmosphere that is affect to
students, especially in terms of emotion. Therefore, researchers are interested in
researching how their digital readiness is and their emotional perception in dealing
with online learning.
The researcher used quantitative research with descriptive quantitative.
Questionnaire was for colleted the data. The technique used in this research is
descriptive analysis. The data are analyzed and described in details to student
readiness and emotional perception. Quantitative analysis techniques are also used
to manage and Interpret data in the form of numbers or systematic. This type of
analysis uses percentage analysis using English formula.
The result of the digital readiness among students showed that some
students know about digital learning well and many students have E-learning
media. However, some of them are also unable to take online lessons because
there are some problems. Students of SMPN 23 Banjarmasin give positive
perceptions but they feel disappointed because the internet connection is not good,
they prefer face-to-face learning than distance learning.