Implementation of Educational Technology to Increase Students' Learning Interest during Pandemic
65 Interdisciplinary Social Studies, 1(2), November 2021
According to M Hosnan (2014) there are five principles used in learning activities, namely:
first, learning centered on learners, learning done in the classroom should involve learners. Not
only teachers who convey the material but learners also participate in participating in learning
in the form of discussions, giving opinions, asking questions, and others. Second, develop the
creativity of learners. Third, create pleasant class conditions. Fourth, charged values
(Knowledge), ethics (Attitude), aesthetics (Works) and others. Fifth, provide a fun, effective
and efficient learning experience (Nursyam, 2019). Sari Liani (Sari, 2020) explained that the
decline in learners' learning outcomes is due to the lack of interest in learning students to ask
questions and only answer questions when appointed by educators, students usually only listen
to explanations from teachers and digest and record what is explained by the students.
Its implementation is in the form of the application of multimedia applications, object-
oriented and web-based program applications through internet media, and the implementation
of integrated software package applications. The function of information technology in
Education is: as a storehouse of science; as a tool of learning; as an educational facility; as a
competency; as an administrative support; as a management tool; and as an educational
infrastructure (Sari, 2020).
Learning media is a combination of learning materials with learning tools and is part of
learning resources to be used as the delivery of messages and information in learning. So that
the learning goal can be achieved optimally and increase the effectiveness of achievement
results. Learning media can also be used to improve learning processes and outcomes in
learning. Utilization and design of learning media well will help learners in understanding
learning materials.
The application of educational technology as an effort to improve and launch the current
online learning process, it can be said that educational technology is not only as bridging
activities but becomes the heart of the process of ongoing activities. There are several
information technology platforms as an online learning medium that is used with various
options such as to just send messages (Chat) to through video conference media that displays
videos between each other or even more (Hakim, 2020). The learning media can be accessed
through Whatsapp, Whatsapp group, e-learning, Google Meet, Google Classroom, Zoom,
Webex Meet, Padlet, Google Form, email, YouTube, TVRI broadcast and many others.
Whatsapp
This application is one of the communication media that is so popular among all over the
world. In this application everyone can have conversations via text, voice, and video either
individually or in groups (Whatsapp group). The application is very simple, easy, yemeni,
reliable, and available worldwide so it is not surprising that this application is in demand at
least i83% of the 171 million internet users are whatsapp users who connect the wider
community, it was revealed by Niken as secretary general of the Ministry of Communication
and Informatics (Suni Astini, 2020).
E-learning
Hartanto (2016) suggests that e-learning is an information and communication technology
to be able to make students more active in learning anywhere and anytime. There are two types
of ie-learning, the first being that synchronous interaction occurs directly between teacher and