Pemanfaatan Media Sosial Sebagai Sarana Komunikasi Guru Kelas Dengan Orang Tua Wali Siswa Kelas 1,2,3 Madrasah Ibtidaiyah Ma'arif Sendang Kulon Progo Tahun Ajaran 2017/2018

Mirza Fazah (Madrasah Ibtidaiyah Muhammadiyah Nogosari Kulon Progo Yogyakarta)

At-Tajdid: Jurnal Ilmu Tarbiyah
Vol 8 No 1 (2019): At-Tajdid

One way to improve intense, fast and measurable communication between class teachers, madrasah heads and student guardians. With the WhatsApp group already formed between the class teacher and the 1.2.3 class student guardian, it can facilitate all information that can be accessed and received quickly and carefully both in relation to school activities, as well as other things related to education This study aims to find out how the use of the WhatsApp group as a means of communication between the classroom teacher and the guardian of class students 1,2,3 MI Ma'arif Sendang Kulon Progo in the academic year 2017/2018. What are the positive and negative impacts caused by the formation of this WhatsApp group, and why the WhatsApp group social media is the choice. This study uses a field research approach that is qualitative descriptive, a type of field method that describes the results of field data that is carried out directly. The data collection is done by means of observation, interviews, and questionnaires. Then the data is interpreted and analyzed to find out the use of the WhatsApp group. The results of this study show. First, the use of social media as a means of alternative communication between classroom teachers and student guardians, which comes from four aspects, namely: means of promotion, means of responding to the dynamics of educational needs, means of disseminating information, and self-recognition and approach. This is in line with the results of the analysis on qualitative data in the form of observations, interviews with madrasa heads, class teachers and student guardians. Both WhatsApp group social media have a positive impact, namely supporting the smooth communication and fast access to information between teachers and student guardians. The negative impact is the existence of several shipments that are not in accordance with the educational context. Third The WhatsApp group was chosen because it is very easy to learn, can send in the form of voice, emotion, video, and text in the form of text via HP, can send text messages, pictures, and audio files in Ms. format Word, and PDF, and can be used to coordinate a group in group form.