Social Media and Digital History in History Learning

Abstract

In education, several studies have looked at the potential of social media. Social media provides a platform for intellectual exploration, exchange of ideas, and joint project building. In history learning, social media is a part of digital history. Digital history is interpreted as an interdisciplinary activity and study that combines information systems and computerized technology in the historical field to give rise to new perspectives, concepts, and approaches to understanding and representing the reality of society in the past. From here, this study aims to analyze the potential of social media in digital history and its use in historical education. In history class, social media often provides alternative sources that spark students' curiosity. Social media often becomes a trigger for controversy. Using social media in learning can be done with a flipped classroom. A flipped classroom is defined as the translocation of educational activities to be carried out at home and school. Flipped learning is included in the hybrid learning model. An educational structure in which traditional teaching methods and technology are integrated. This method supports problem-based, collaborative, inquiry-based and active learning theories.