Proceedings of the 1st Hasanuddin International Conference on Social and Political Sciences, HICOSPOS 2019, 21-22 October 2019, Makassar, Indonesia

Research Article

Social Media and Improved Learning Achievement in Junior High Students of Coastal Pangkep

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.21-10-2019.2291546,
        author={Muhammad  Farid and Andi Alimuddin Unde},
        title={Social Media and Improved Learning Achievement in Junior High Students of Coastal Pangkep},
        proceedings={Proceedings of the 1st Hasanuddin International Conference on Social and Political Sciences, HICOSPOS 2019, 21-22 October 2019, Makassar, Indonesia},
        publisher={EAI},
        proceedings_a={HICOSPOS},
        year={2020},
        month={2},
        keywords={new media social media learning with technology education technology},
        doi={10.4108/eai.21-10-2019.2291546}
    }
    
  • Muhammad Farid
    Andi Alimuddin Unde
    Year: 2020
    Social Media and Improved Learning Achievement in Junior High Students of Coastal Pangkep
    HICOSPOS
    EAI
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.21-10-2019.2291546
Muhammad Farid1,*, Andi Alimuddin Unde1
  • 1: Department of Communication Science, Hasanuddin University
*Contact email: faridemsil@yahoo.com

Abstract

Research on the Analysis of the Relationship between the Use of Social Media and Improving Student Learning Achievement in the Pangkep Regency Coastal Region, with the aim to determine the frequency and duration of social media use for students related to learning.And to analyze the relationship between the use of social media and the improvement of students' learning achievements in the Coastal Region Middle School.By using a quantitative approach that is distributing questionnaires to second and third grade junior high school students. The data expected from this questionnaire is, the use of social media both in terms of frequency of use and duration of use. As for other data collected through the report cards of each respondent to analyze whether there is an increase in learning achievement is associated with a tendency to use social media related to school learning, especially in coastal areas which incidentally the quality of education is still low. The results showed that all respondents had the opportunity to open social media with different frequencies in searching and searching for information related to learning in school. The frequency in question is; one to two times a week, three to four times a week, five to six times a week and more than six times a week. While the duration of searching for learning information also shows numbers ranging from; one to fourteen minutes, fifteen to thirty minutes, thirty-one to forty-four minutes and more than forty-four minutes.