Historical Awareness Through the Use of the WhatsApp Group Application as a Distance Learning Media
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.210918.067How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Distance Learning Media, Historical Awareness, WhatsApp Group Application
- Abstract
Since the establishment of the emergency period of corona virus desease (Covid-19) in Indonesia, the policy was implemented based on government circular number 4 of 2020 which contains about the change of learning system from face-to-face system to distance learning system, namely learning from home (online). The use of communication and information technology-based learning media is a major requirement in achieving these efforts. WhatsApp as one of the most popular social media today, has full features that can be used as interactive learning media between teachers and students for distance learning. The purpose of the discussion in this paper seeks to explain the use of the WhatsApp Group application in history learning in order to foster an understanding of students’ historical awareness. This study uses a naturalistic study whose presentation is based on qualitative descriptive analysis. The results show that the use of WhatsApp Group as a learning medium can create interactive and effective communication between teachers and students. Conversations through WhatsApp Group are able to stimulate active involvement both physically, mentally and emotionally of students, of course this will make it easier to provide an understanding of a historical event study, which in turn will lead to an understanding of students’ historical awareness about the journey of their nation in the past and can also foster ideas. ideas for present and future life.
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- © 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Wike Silfa PY - 2021 DA - 2021/09/18 TI - Historical Awareness Through the Use of the WhatsApp Group Application as a Distance Learning Media BT - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Education & Social Sciences (ICESS 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 370 EP - 375 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210918.067 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.210918.067 ID - Silfa2021 ER -