Children’s Web Portals: Are Adult Designers on Target?

Author(s):  
Andrew Large ◽  
Jamshid Beheshti ◽  
Valerie Nesset ◽  
Leanne Bowler

This paper evaluates a web portal designed for elementary students not by adult professionals but by an intergenerational team of grade-six elementary school students and the researchers. The evaluation itself was undertaken by a focus group of six volunteer students. It is compared with the evaluations made by other student focus groups of web portals also designed for children but this time by adults.Cette étude évalue un portail Web destinés aux élèves de l'école primaire, conçu non par des professionnels adultes, mais plutôt par une équipe multi-génération rassemblant des élèves de sixième année primaire et des chercheurs. L’évaluation a été effectuée par un groupe de discussion composé de six élèves volontaires. Elle est comparée aux évaluations réalisées par d’autres groupes de discussion composés d’élèves et portant sur des portails Web pour enfants conçus cette fois par des adultes. 

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nyai Cintang

Factual conditions require the development of teaching materials in thematic learning using a scientific approach to improve the available teaching materials. This study aims to: 1) examine the factual conditions for the use of teaching materials in thematic learning in the 2013 curriculum; 2) knowing the development of scientific based thematic teaching materials for fourth grade elementary students; 3) knowing expert judgment on the feasibility of scientific-based thematic teaching materials for fourth grade elementary students; 4) knowing the effect of the use of scientifically based thematic teaching materials on the learning achievement of fourth grade elementary school students; 5) knowing the teacher's assessment of learning using thematically based thematic teaching materials for grade IV elementary school students; 6) knowing the response of students to learning using thematically based thematic teaching materials for fourth grade elementary school students. This study uses Development Research with qualitative and quantitative research designs. The development process uses the 4-D model of Thiagarajan, Semel and Semel which has been modified to be the stage of defining, designing, and developing. Teaching materials that have been validated by experts get the category of "very valid and without revision" from expert responses and teacher evaluations with agreed criteria, student responses to the use of teaching materials in learning get very good responses from students. The results of the trials using the experimental design The Before And After Design show that there is an effect of the use of scientifically based thematic teaching materials on the learning achievement of PPKn; 2) there is the influence of the use of scientifically based thematic teaching materials on social studies learning achievements; 3) there is the influence of the use of scientifically based thematic teaching materials on the learning achievement of science. Scientific based thematic teaching materials for Grade IV Primary School students can be used in learning.


2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 97
Author(s):  
Dadang Kurnia ◽  
Ani Nur Aeni

Cases of bullying among elementary school students are high, therefore need to get attention. This study reveals an indication of physical bullying that occurs in elementary students and its implications for moral education according to the guidance of Religion. The method used is survey and literature study with qualitative approach. Participants involved a number of 55 elementary school teachers in the Cirebon region, including districts and cities. The results showed that 1) almost half of the physical bullying indication occurred in primary school with the highest percentage is in punching and pinching behavior, while the smallest percentage of the strangling behavior, 2) moral education can be a therapy to change the bad behavior of physical bullying and can be used as an effort to prevent. 


2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 96-106
Author(s):  
Marliani Herlina ◽  
Udin Saefudin Sa’ud ◽  
Disman Disman ◽  
Wahyu Sopandi ◽  
Nuke Puji Lestari Santoso

Elementary school students in general are still learning traditionally. Especially elementary school students learn entrepreneurship to train to create value innovations that are valuable independently. However, in this 4.0 era, many elementary students still run entrepreneurship in the traditional way by producing physical works, this is certainly because elementary school students do not experience development with the interference of technology. What should be elementary school students should have started to know technology early on. So, the purpose of this research is to empirically discuss how elementary school students are able to learn entrepreneurship digitally from an early age. With the iLearning method elementary school students are able to develop with a blend of technology 4.0 to create innovative results visually. The presence of the SEP (School Enrichment Program) system which is a bridge for elementary school students in learning entrepreneurship through learning so that they can improve their quality early on. In addition, the gamification techniques that exist in the system make elementary school students significantly more motivated in entrepreneurial learning. The sample data test results show that Cronbach's Alpha 0.702> 0.6 on the SEP system is significantly reliable.


2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfina Tri Buanawati ◽  
Risma Rahmawati ◽  
Zaiful Hidayat ◽  
Ratna Hidayah ◽  
Cucuk Budiyanto

Amid of the Covid-19 pandemic, our education should be continued. Therefore, the online learning was being implemented at home so the parents would have a role to make the learning continues. This article aims to analyze parents role in elementary students learning process during the Covid-19 pandemic. The research method is a qualitative approach with descriptive methods. Data obtained from a questionnaire consisting of 17 statements. The population in this study were parents of elementary school students who were affected by the Covid-19 pandemic as many as 60 respondents. The results of this study are the percentage of parents role in elementary school student learning during the Covid-19 pandemic. The conclusion of this article is that parents play a good role in elementary school student learning in the Covid-19 pandemic is as teachers, facilitators, motivators, and influencer. This article can be used as literature and other researchers development material.


2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 77
Author(s):  
Rizka Novia Atmadani ◽  
Ika Ratna Hidayati

The purpose of this service activity is to introducing medicine from early age in order to introduce pharmacists and medicine to elementary school students. The lack of knowledge about medicines in the community begins with the provision of knowledge from an early age to elementary school students because they will later become adolescents and reduce drug abuse in the community as frequently happens to high school students or college students. The method of these activities is carried out by means of online learning using several platforms, including: class whatsapp group, google form, and youtube link. Before being given the material, a pretest and posttest was admitted at the beginning and end of the activity. There are two materials provided, first, introducing Pharmacist Profession and education for DaGuSiBu. The participants of this activity were elementary students of grade 4,5 and 6 SDN Losari. In addition, this service is expected to motivate students to have awareness and be able to supervise other classmates for practicing medicines properly.The results was found that the students received education related to the Pharmacist Profession and understood about DaGuSiBu (properly get, use, save, and throw away the medicines) with the results of the average pretest and posttest scores about Pharmacist of 7.08 and 7.23 respectively, meanwhile DaGuSiBu education was 6.20 for pretest and postest 7.18. So it can be concluded that there was increasing points in knowledge after being given education.


2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (02) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nurhayati Malau ◽  
Lusia Novita Sari Situmeang ◽  
Novita Marlina Damanik ◽  
Indriani Pasaribu ◽  
Imelda Imelda

Pengabdian Kepada Masyarakat ini merupakan Program Kreativitas Mahasiswa Pengabdian Kepada Masyarakat (PKMM) yang didanai kemenristekdikti tahun 2018. Khalayak sasaran dari pengabdian ini adalah siswa-siswi kelas 5 dan 6 SD Negeri 056035 Kecamatan Besitang. Kegiatan pembelajaran berbasis permainan tradisional di kelas telah dilaksanakan pada tanggal 2 juli 2018 hingga 28 juli 2018 yang diikuti oleh 20 peserta siswa/siswi SD. Dari hasil evaluasi diperoleh hasil dan manfaat dari kegiatan pengabdian ini diantaranya adalah membantu pihak SD Negeri 056035 Kecamatan Besitang dalam menumbuhkan minat siswa terhadap pelajaran matematika, membantu siswa untuk tertarik terhadap matematika sehingga dapat menumbuhkan kemampuan matematikanya dan meningkatkan kreatifitas siswa dalam bidang Matematika. Hasil dari pelaksanaan PKM menunjukkan bahwa proses pembelajaran dengan berbasis permainan tradisional berjalan dengan baik dan siswa mampu menggunakan permainan tradisional dalam proses pembelajaran.Kata kunci : Permainan Tradisional, Matematika, Siswa SDThis Community Service is a Community Service Student Creativity Program (PKMM) funded by Kemenristekdikti in 2018. The target audience of this service is the 5th and 6th grade students of 056035 State Elementary School in Besitang District. Traditional game-based learning activities in the classroom have been held on July 2 2018 to July 28 2018 attended by 20 elementary school students. From the results of the evaluation, the results and benefits of this service were obtained, including helping 056035 Public Elementary School in Besitang District to foster students 'interest in mathematics, helping students to be interested in mathematics so that they can develop their mathematical abilities and increase students' creativity in Mathematics. The results of the PKM implementation show that the learning process based on traditional games runs well and students are able to use traditional games in the learning process.Keywords: Traditional Games, Mathematics, Elementary Students 


Author(s):  
Randson Norman Santos de Souza ◽  
Juliana Santos Severiano

The actions of the research aimed at making elementary students aware of the importance of raising the concern for the environment, facilitating the construction of knowledge about birds and their biomes through playful environmental education. A total of 18 students, aged between 8 and 9 years, participated in the study. The research included stages that had theoretical and playful activities within the classroom, a semi-structured form with discursive and objective questions was applied at the beginning and end of the activities. As a result, it was seen that the lectures associated with the playful ones contributed to a better learning of the students in the construction of knowledge about the topics studied. Thus, the use of playful activities as a tool within the classroom helps in the construction of knowledge of the elementary school students about the topics seen in the classroom.


2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 90-104
Author(s):  
Basnendar Herry Prilosadoso ◽  
Waluyo ◽  
Roman Aqviriyoso

The Covid-19 outbreak has attacked the community, where the Indonesian Government has handled the pandemic outbreak from health, social, politicaDolanan Song, Illustration, Covid-19, Education, Elementary School Students.l, economic and other related aspects. Various educational media, information, and publications regarding the prevention and spread of this virus have also been carried out in multiple ways and with multiple media. Dissemination of information about the Corona outbreak is needed by all groups, from all age groups, economic status, gender, demographics and other aspects. Likewise, for elementary students, at that age, the information can be used as a guide later, both now and future. An appropriate media for segmentation is needed so that the information presented is acceptable and attractive. Alternative media for illustrated collaboration with tembang dolanan contain moral teachings and conveying media that can apply Dolanan Song, Illustration, Covid-19, Education, Elementary School Students.in preserving mother tongue and character education. The purpose of creating art is children's illustration work and dolanan songs containing interesting material and publication media regarding the prevention and spread of the Covid-19 virus to elementary school students. The method of creating artwork has 6 (six) stages, namely: Discovery, Interpretation, Ideation, Experimentation, Evolution, and Implementation. Through this media, it hoped that it could increase understanding and knowledge, especially elementary school students, in preventing and overcoming the Covid-19 outbreak so that the attack can soon subside.  Keywords: tembang dolanan, illustration, Covid-19, education, elementary school students.


Author(s):  
Andrew Large ◽  
Jamshid Beheshti ◽  
Valerie Nesset ◽  
Leanne Bowler

Two intergenerational design teams comprising respectively elementary school students from grades six and three, together with three adult researchers, designed two low-tech web portal prototypes specifically targeted at the students’ peers. These portals were subsequently converted into working portals that can be used to find information on the Web relating to Canadian history and deemed appropriate for an elementary school audience. This paper presents the evaluations of the two portals conducted by eight focus groups (four from grade-three students and four from grade-six students).Deux équipes intergénérationnelles de conception composées respectivement d’élèves de l’école primaire de sixième et de troisième année, de même que trois adultes chercheurs ont conçu deux prototypes de portails Web de faible technicité spécifiquement destinés à des élèves de cet âge. Ces portails ont été convertis par la suite en portails de travail pouvant être utilisés pour la recherche d’information sur le Web concernant l’Histoire canadienne et ont été jugés appropriés pour des utilisateurs de l’école primaire. Cet article présente les évaluations... 


2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 91
Author(s):  
Riris Lindiawati Puspitasari ◽  
Irawan Sugoro ◽  
Dewi Elfidasari ◽  
Analekta Tiara Perdana

<p><em>Abstrak</em><strong> - Telah dilakukan kegiatan sosialisasi dan pelatihan daur ulang sampah bagi siswa sekolah dasar. Kegiatan ini bertujuan untuk meningkatkan wawasan tentang sampah dan daur ulang sampah kepada anak-anak. Manfaat kegiatan ini yaitu dapat berkontribusi pada pengurangan sampah tidak yang tidak membusuk dan memberikan pengetahuan dalam penanganan sampah sejak dini sehingga terwujud generasi yang peduli terhadap sampah. Kegiatan berlokasi di SD Negeri 03 Cempaka Putih Ciputat Timur, Tangerang Selatan. Siswa yang terlibat yaitu kelas 4 dan 5, berjumlah sekitar 60 orang. Metode yang dilakukan yaitu sosialisasi program, peningkatan pemahaman siswa, dan monitoring. Sosialisasi program dilakukan dengan memberikan materi di kelas secara interaktif. Pemahaman siswa dapat diketahui dengan mengadakan lomba daur ulang sampah yaitu melihat produk kreativitas siswa untuk mengubah sampah menjadi benda yang berguna. Kegiatan monitoring dilaksanakan setelah seluruh rangkaian kegiatan selesai, dengan mengamati perubahan perilaku siswa untuk memanfaatkan sampah di sekitarnya. Berdasarkan pengamatan di lokasi didapatkan bahwa pemahaman siswa untuk mendaur ulang sampah dan mengembangkan ide kreatif mengubah sampah menjadi benda yang bermanfaat meningkat.</strong></p><p><em><strong>Kata Kunci</strong> – Siswa Sekolah Dasar, Daur Ulang, Sampah</em></p><p><em>Abstract</em><strong> - Socialization and recycling training for elementary school students has been carried out. The aim of activities were to improve insights on garbage and recycling waste to children. The benefit of this activity was that it can contribute to the reduction of non-decaying waste and provide knowledge in the handling of garbage from an early age so that we could have generation who cares about the waste. The activity was located at SD Negeri 03 Cempaka Putih Ciputat Timur, South Tangerang. The students involved were 4th and 5th grade, about 60 children. The methods used were the socialization of the program, improving students understanding, and monitoring. Socialization of the program was done by giving the material in the class interactively. Understanding students could be known by holding waste recycling contest that looked at student’s creativity products to convert waste into useful objects. Monitoring activities were carried out after the entire series of activities had been completed, by observing changes in student behavior to utilize the surrounding waste. Based on on-site observation it was found that student’s understanding to recycle garbage and develop creative ideas transformed waste into useful items increased.</strong></p><p><em><strong>Keyword</strong> - Elementary students, recycle, garbage</em></p>


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