Strengthening Media Literacy through Educational Radio at Muhammadiyah Piyungan High School

Abstract

Media literacy is the ability to know the various forms of different media and understand the purpose of their use. The purpose of this study was to analyze the strengthening of media literacy through educational radio at Muhammadiyah Piyungan high school and to determine the ability of students to use educational radio as a learning medium. This research uses descriptive qualitative method. Data collection techniques used are observation and interviews. There are three types of data analysis techniques used, namely, data reduction, data presentation, and drawing conclusions. Based on the results that have been researched, it shows that understanding of media literacy for Muhammadiyah Piyungan High School students in the learning process using educational radio is still not optimal. Not only in technical terms which have not been maximized but, analyzing the information obtained, evaluating, creating or understanding the content created, as well as teachers who have not been maximized, because there are no teachers who are experts in the field of radio. So that students at Muhammadiyah Piyungan high school learn independently. Constraints faced by students in creating content and understanding the contents of the manuscript are due to the limited knowledge of the students. The next obstacle is that Muhammadiyah Piyungan high school does not yet have a special assistant or teacher who understands educational radio as a learning medium. In addition, Muhammdiyah Piyungan high school does not yet have a role model that can be used as an example for learning, so that makes students slow to understand this educational radio.