Using Digital Comics to Learn Indonesia's Geographical Characteristics: Social Studies Education Solutions for Elementary School Students during the Covid-19 Pandemic

Abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic requires attractive learning media for online learning. According to the initial needs analysis, fifth- grade elementary school students were less interested in studying social sciences. As a result, the writer developed digital comics as an alternative to social studies learning material on Indonesia's geographical characteristics. The development of an ADDIE model was used toconduct this research. The data were collected using interviews and questionnaires. The digital comics developed in this study were validated by three experts, namely material, language, and media experts. The validation of material obtained a percentage of 83%, categorized as good category, 88% for language validation which was categorized as very good category, and media experts with the percentage of 80%, categorized as a good category. Furthermore, the developed digital comic was properly used and was an interesting learning media solution in social studies learning, notably during the Covid-19 pandemic.