ISLAMIC LEARNING APPLICATION FOR KINDERGARTEN

Nowadays, the information and technology is widely used in the education sector. Thus, the multimedia application can be used to assists the learning and teaching process. Besides, the usage of traditional method in learning will make the students become bored and not pay attention to the learning. This situation will make some difficulties for the teachers to attract and retain the students’ interest during the learning session. In addition, there are few multimedia applications that provide Islamic learning for the kindergarten in the market. Basically, this project is about the development of Islamic learning multimedia application for kindergarten students or My-ADAB. The objectives of this project are to research on a suitable model or method of learning for kindergarten students, to develop a prototype of Islamic contents and to conduct the user acceptance test on the develop product. This application is focuses only on the values or manners (Adab) that related to Islam which it assists the students to understand the values and also facilitate them to apply the learning later. Besides, this application contains five Adab modules and three levels of quizzes. The waterfall model is chosen as the research methodology and in order to gather the data, interviews and research from internets and books are done. This application is developed by using Adobe Flash CS4 Professional. The learning theories that are applied in this application are Cognitive theory and Constructivist Learning Theory. Lastly, to get the feedbacks from the users, user acceptance test are conducted and survey are done for teachers and parents to get their comments. Then, all results are recorded and analyzed. Most of the students, teachers and parents are satisfied with this application.