Social media becomes the things that is very popular recently. Everyone in different ages range uses media social to post and update the newest information. There are many good impacts brought by social media such as the information which spreads rapidly. On the other hand, there are some bad impacts brought by social media also like lost control on online environment.
In the education field, social media becomes one of essential component. It is because information in social media updated very fast, and this updated information becomes as a part that cannot be separated from education. Based on these goals, MIC Yogyakarta in cooperated with Jaringan Informasi Sekolah (JIS) held workshop that taught educators become wise in using social media.
There were 30 teachers joined in this workshop. This workshop has a goal to provide information on how to obtain positive content from social media, as well as being an agent of change to share positive content in social media. It is because the more we share positive content, it means the more we reduce the population of negative content in online.
With the use of Social Chorus deck, the teachers was taught on how to get and share positive content relating to education to the community. The teachers share positive content, then the others share the same content to their colleagues. This concept is considered as an effective way to be a foundation to create great environment in social media.
The teachers as the user of social media was very enthusiast with this idea. They were very excited to share and produce positive information after they get insight on how to utilize social media in a positive way and also knowing the impact brought by social media.