Abstract:
The development of cellphone technology can be seen from the breakthrough of a new, more sophisticated type of cellphone, namely the smartphone. Today smartphones are important items in daily activities including learning activities. Informants as sources of information were selected using purposive sampling technique. Data mining was carried out by observation, in-depth interviews with selected informants and diaries are one of the important data sources in the research used. The research results will be analyzed by phenomenological analysis. The results show that: (1) the function of smartphones as a learning resource during the Covid 19 pandemic is to function as a communication tool for the learning process, assisting teachers and children in teaching and doing or completing assignments given by the teacher; (2) the children's response liked smartphones to be used as a learning resource because they were easy to use and fast to find the answers they were looking for; Children ask a lot of questions to the teacher because children are confused about finding suitable answers and language that is difficult to understand. The teacher's response is always to supervise children when using a smartphone to browse the internet.
