Social media as integrated character education media

Character education in schools is carried out in an integrated manner in all subjects. Integrated character education involves the school, family, and community in its implementation. The very few communication opportunities make the implementation of integrated character education involving families and communities difficult. Through this opportunity, we tried to introduce social media to be used as an integrated learning media for subjects and character education. The teacher can provide material and assessment to students and students can learn and submit assessment completion through the media. In addition, students can also place all of their work in a folder prepared for each student to accommodate their portfolios. Teacher-student communication and student-student communication can be done through groups or private chats. Such a mechanism can monitor student learning progress and at the same time train students’ courage to express opinions, collaborative skills, responsibility, respect for other people’s work, and independence. However, the effort to increase honesty and independence, social media has not provided satisfactory results because during the implementation of tests that must be done independently, students often exchange answers. These findings can be used as a reference for finding techniques around the use of social media in practicing honesty and independence.