UTILIZATION OF INTERNET CONTENT AS A LEARNING SOURCE OF IPS IN SMP Negeri 9 BANDUNG

 ABSTRACT This research is motivated by the interest of researchers to see the phenomenon of free internet usage in the SMP Negeri 9 Bandung environment. Students always bring cellphones to school, teachers always use the internet as a learning resource to make it easier for students to understand the material, and the facilities available at school cannot be optimally utilized as social studies learning resources. The method used in the collection of learning data that utilizes the internet as an IPS learning resource through observation, guidelines for observation, interviews, and documentation. The target of this study was class VII-3 of SMP Negeri 9 Bandung. The results of the study show that teachers use the internet as a source of social studies learning to make learning more effective, using the internet will increase the knowledge and insights that students have, the form of internet use in SMP Negeri 9 Bandung, namely the web enhanced course, where the internet is used to support quality in face-to-face learning between teachers and students, there is a positive impact generated through the internet as a social science learning resource, namely students can access learning whenever and wherever, making learning easier so students become independent in seeking information. The negative impact caused for students is to become a plagiarist because they can freely access information, become lazy to learn because they always play games so they forget their obligations as students and students can access content that is not good. Keywords: Internet, Social Studies Learning Resources* Main author