Character Building of Early Young Learners through Gadget as Learning Media in Kindergarten

DOI

10.2991/icece-16.2017.26How to use a DOI?

Keywords

character building, young children, learning media, kindergarten, ICT in early childhood education

Abstract

This paper describes the use of gadgets as learning media in building children's characters in Indonesian kindergarten context. In this digital era, children can access many technologies easily, including using some gadgets. Most of the people believe that gadgets can only give negative effects to young children's character, but actually some studies proposed that when gadgets are used properly, they can give positive effects too. Due to the perception that gadgets are negative must be corrected because the use of gadgets can develop positive effects for the children depending on the programs created. The qualitative method employed in this study were observation and interview as well as data collection techniques. The students of TK Laboratorium UPI Kampus Cibiru were chosen as the research subjects. Gadgets that were used in this study were mobile phone, laptop and tablet/tab. The gadgets programs were selected based on the assumption of their positive effects for the children's characters. From the data gathered, it can be concluded that the use of gadgets is assumed effective as learning media in developing some children's characters. It is also recommended for kindergarten teachers to use gadgets as alternative learning media in class.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Endah Silawati
AU  - Setyaningsih Rachmania
PY  - 2016/11
DA  - 2016/11
TI  - Character Building of Early Young Learners through Gadget as Learning Media in Kindergarten
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Early Childhood Education (ICECE 2016)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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SN  - 2352-5398
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