Dimas Application: an Innovative Learning Media for Fardu Prayer to Improve Writing Skills of 2nd Grade Students at SDN 1 Candi Mlarak

Abstract

Learning using conventional methods is often less effective in attracting students? interest and improving their understanding. This is reflected in the low participation of students in learning activities and evaluation results that show a lack of deep understanding. With the development of learning media through the application prepared by the researcher, it is expected to improve students? understanding in terms of writing skills on the subject of Fardhu prayer. This study aims to determine 1) the implementation of learning activities on the subject of Fardhu prayer using the Dimas application in 2nd grade, 2) the effectiveness of using the Dimas application in improving writing skills on the subject of Fardhu prayer. Using development research, the results of this study are as follows. 1) The use of learning media through the Dimas application has been implemented, as seen from the implementation test results for the material indicator categorized as good; for the indicators of objectives, usage, and success categorized as sufficient. 2) The Dimas application is very effective as an auxiliary media in classroom learning, especially on the subject of Fardhu prayer. This is evidenced by the paired sample t-test result of 0.000 with a significance level of less than 0.05 and an average N gain score of 0.7008, indicating the effectiveness of the Dimas application as a learning media is categorized as high, thus very effective.