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Previous research shows that digital learning media can increase student learning motivation, facilitate interaction between teachers and students, and encourage educational innovation. Student participation in the learning process is a key factor in improving the quality of learning. In the context of PAK, student participation can be measured through their level of involvement in discussions, assignments and other activities related to the lesson material. In this paper, the method applied by the author is a qualitative descriptive method with a focus on literature study. where books and other literature are the main focus of his research. Teachers play an important role in integrating digital media in the development of the PAK curriculum. Digital media technology that can be used in developing the Christian Religious Education (PAK) curriculum includes various types of tools and platforms that can improve the quality of learning. The use of digital media in developing the PAK curriculum has shown a significant increase in student participation. Canva is a graphic design tool that allows users to design creative designs online. This is a graphic design platform that can be used to create various types of graphics for social media, presentations, posters, documents and other visual content. Guru also makes it easy to create teaching materials and create Bible text games or create Bible verse quizzes. Even though there are several weaknesses that must be taken into account, this is not a problem that cannot be resolved by presenting material interactively and responsively. Therefore, the use of information technology or digital media is very influential in improving the quality of student learning.

Education is a vital and important aspect of a country's development and its ability to compete globally. The education concept emphasizes the development of students' character, critical thinking skills, social skills, and teacher skills to provide effective and engaging learning. The educational program includes Socialization and Computer Learning Techniques, Digitalization of Learning through educational videos, and EcoPrint. The program is conducted at SDN I Semolowaru, Surabaya, aiming to improve the quality of education and meet local needs. The program is conducted by 28 KKN students at the National University "Veteran" East Java, providing training and guidance. The results show that students with new perspectives are more likely to succeed, and 80% of students are able to understand all materials provided during learning. This program can support the Indonesian Education and Culture Program in educating the nation's children.

The purpose of this research is to create fine art learning materials for Adabiah 1 Padang High School's grade X pupils using Flipbooks. The background of this study is the lack of enthusiasm among students to learn fine arts using traditional package books, which are generally seen as dull. The steps of analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation are all included in the 4-D model, which is the research approach utilized in development (Research and Development). The outcomes demonstrated how well Flipbook-based learning resources increased students' motivation to learn and helped them comprehend the ideas behind two- and three-dimensional fine arts.   The implication of this research shows that Flipbook can be an alternative learning media that is interesting and effective, as well as relevant to learning needs in the digital era. The conclusion of this study is that Flipbook has high validity and practicality as a learning media, which can be implemented in fine arts learning in schools.

Generation Z is a generation born in 1997-2012. This generation grew up and developed in the digital era, so they are very familiar with technology. However, the digital literacy of generation Z still needs to be improved, especially in terms of technical and creative skills. On December 25-30, 2023, Patitech Academy held a Genz Techno Camp training. This training was attended by 15 participants, consisting of 7 college students, 6 high school/vocational school/Islamic high school students, and 2 junior high school students. The purpose of this activity is to improve the digital literacy of generation Z, especially in terms of technical and creative skills. This activity also aims to prevent generation Z from falling into negative things during the holidays. The training materials provided include: IoT (Internet of Things), Design graphics, Web programming, Content creator, Digital marketing. This training uses a participatory learning method. Training participants are invited to actively discuss and practice. This training is also supported by competent teaching staff in their fields. The results of the training showed that participants showed an increase in technical and creative skills. They can understand the basic concepts of IoT, graphic design, web programming, content creators, and digital marketing. Training participants can also apply these skills in creating digital products, such as applications, websites, graphic designs, and digital content. The Genz Techno Camp training activity has succeeded in increasing the digital literacy of generation Z. This activity can be an example for various parties to improve the digital literacy of generation Z in a sustainable manner.

This research aims to analyse the impact of modifications to the education system at Vocational School Darussalam Banyuwangi through empowering digital media and information skills in the Merdeka Curriculum. The main aim of this research is to analyse how digital media integration affects teaching methods, curriculum, and educational outcomes, as well as assess students' readiness to face future challenges. The research method used is a qualitative approach with a case study design. Data was collected through in-depth interviews with school principals, teachers, and students, classroom observations to observe the implementation of digital media in the learning process, and analysis of curriculum documents and teaching materials. Data analysis was carried out using thematic analysis techniques to identify main patterns and themes from interviews, observations, and documents. The research results show that integrating digital media into the Merdeka Curriculum has improved teaching methods by increasing interactivity and student involvement. In addition, empowering information skills helps students manage and utilize information sources effectively. Although there are challenges to implementation, such as the need for additional training for teachers and technical issues, this research identifies strategies that can overcome these obstacles and increase the effectiveness of the curriculum. This research provides valuable insight into the adaptation of the education system in the digital era and offers recommendations for improving the implementation of the Merdeka Curriculum in secondary schools.

Mathematics is a universal science that underlies the development of modern technology, plays an important role in various scientific disciplines, and human thinking abilities. The view that mathematics is a science that trains thinking. The Creative Problem Solving learning model is a learning model that focuses on teaching and Problem Solving skills. Digital teaching materials are use digital devices, such as computers, smartphones. The aim of this research is to see the validity, practicality and effectiveness of the e-module being developed. This teaching material development model uses the ADDIE model. This research was carried out at SMP Negeri 21 Medan which is located on Jl. Rampe Raya flower. The time for the panel research is the even semester of the 2023/2024 academic year. The subjects of this research were class VII students at SMP Negeri 21 Medan. Meanwhile, the object of this research is learning media in the form of e-modules using flipbooks based on Creative Problem Solving. The e-module was declared very valid with a score of 3.56 and was categorized as very feasible. The e-module was declared practical with a percentage of 92.67% and was categorized as very practical. The e-module was declared effective by achieving Problem Solving indicators in indicators 1, 2, 3 and 4 with 65% of students completing the learning. The achievement of classical student indicators has met 65% of students who took part in learning with a score of 75. And there was a significant increase in indicators 1, 2, 3, and 4.

Islamic Religious Education (PAI) as an integral part of the educational curriculum requires teacher independence in developing learning materials that are relevant to current developments. This article investigates the role of teacher independence in developing technology-based PAI materials in MTs. Negeri 1 Gorontalo Regency. This research uses a qualitative approach with a case study method. Data was collected through observation, interviews and document analysis. The research results show that teacher independence in adopting technology as a PAI learning aid plays an important role in improving the quality of teaching. Factors such as technological skills, motivation, and institutional support influence the level of teacher independence. This article concludes that teacher empowerment in terms of technological skills and institutional support are the main keys in developing PAI materials that are innovative and relevant to students' needs in the digital era.    

Students' critical thinking skills in natural science learning in elementary schools are not optimal because teachers have not used learning media that suit the characteristics of students and teaching materials. The aim of this research is to describe digital media innovations in empowering critical thinking skills in natural science learning in elementary schools. This research uses a literature review research design with a qualitative approach. The data in this research is secondary data. Data collection techniques use literature studies related to books, national journals and international journals according to the research focus. The data analysis technique is a content analysis technique.

This study aims to explore the concept of teacher professionalism in the 21st century, especially in the context of English language learning. This research uses a qualitative method with a phenomenological design, with data collection techniques through interviews, classroom observations, and document analysis. The results show that teacher professionalism covers various aspects, including subject matter mastery and professional attitude. Professional teachers are expected to be able to design and implement effective learning, motivate students, guide and provide counseling, assess students’ learning progress, and manage the classroom well. The research findings show that English teachers in Indonesia need to improve some aspects of their professionalism, such as English teaching skills in the classroom and the development of more innovative materials. Teachers also need further training to improve their ability to teach English in the digital era. Support from the school and collaboration with peers are also very important to improve the quality of English learning in schools. This study concludes that teacher professionalism is an important factor in achieving better education standards. Teachers must continue to learn and develop to improve their competencies and meet the needs of students in the 21st century.

In today's fast-paced, information-driven world, productivity is paramount for personal and professional success. Effective reading, a crucial cognitive process, significantly impacts knowledge acquisition, critical thinking, and innovation. This research offers an extensive examination of optimizing reading spaces to boost productivity. The study investigates the intricate relationship between reading environments and cognitive performance, considering factors like lighting, ergonomics, acoustics, spatial layout, and technology integration. These elements profoundly influence reader engagement, information retention, and cognitive load. Moreover, the study delves into environmental psychology's role in shaping concentration, creativity, and comfort within reading spaces. It analyzes the psychological effects of design elements like color, nature, and organization on cognitive processes. Understanding these responses empowers designers and individuals to tailor spaces for better focus and well-being. The integration of technology within reading spaces is explored, assessing digital platforms, interactive displays, and personalized content curation's benefits for efficient information consumption. It addresses challenges in balancing printed materials and digital resources. Additionally, the study considers personalized reading spaces' impact on diverse demographic groups, accounting for age, cognitive abilities, and preferences in design and customization. It emphasizes adaptable spaces catering to various needs and learning styles. This research offers a comprehensive view of reading spaces and productivity enhancement. By examining design elements, psychological factors, and technological integration, it provides insights for creating spaces that empower individuals to engage effectively with information, think critically, and achieve higher productivity in academic and professional endeavors.

Today's students, often referred to as the digital generation, tend to be more interested and responsive to interactive and visual learning media. However, traditional teaching methods that tend to be monotonous are often unable to fulfil students' learning needs and interests. Therefore, innovation in learning approaches is necessary. One of the innovative solutions in learning media development is the use of graphic design applications such as Canva. With its user-friendly features, Canva allows teachers to create more dynamic and interesting teaching materials, which in turn can increase students' motivation and understanding of the values taught in Islamic Religious Education and Budi Pekerti. The development method or R&D using the ADDIE model is a learning design model that provides an organised process in the construction of teaching materials that can be used in both face-to-face and online learning. The use of learning media that suits students' needs not only increases their attention to the lesson, but also provides a comprehensive learning experience, reinforces a thorough understanding of the material, and encourages students' active involvement in the learning process. Thus, students have greater opportunities to develop their creativity and potential in a supportive learning environment. Learning media plays an important role in improving student learning outcomes by providing an engaging and efficient teaching-learning process. It allows students to understand the subject matter more easily, increases learning efficiency in accordance with the learning objectives, and improves their concentration and motivation.

Akhlaq education plays an important role in shaping the character and personality of students. However, challenges in learning akhlaq such as limited relevant teaching materials and interesting learning media require innovative solutions. This article discusses strategies for developing teaching materials and learning media for akhlaq that are relevant to technological developments and social changes. This research uses literature study method and implementation analysis in selected schools. The results show that the use of digital media, project-based learning, and collaboration with parents and the community can improve the effectiveness of akhlaq learning.  

In the dynamic digital era, artificial intelligence (AI) like ChatGPT presents revolutionary opportunities to advance classroom learning, particularly in science education. This research focuses on the utilization of ChatGPT to develop a learning model that supports the enhancement of students' Self-Regulated Learning (SRL) abilities. The study investigates four main aspects: (1) How can student-centered science learning improve SRL skills such as goal setting, self-management, and reflection? (2) How can the use of active and collaborative learning strategies in science increase students' motivation and SRL? (3) How can formative and summative assessments focused on developing SRL skills enhance science learning? (4) What are the researchers' experiences in using ChatGPT as a tool to develop and refine learning units, and their reflective research on its use as a teaching aid? An exploratory methodology was applied, utilizing ChatGPT to generate teaching materials tailored to classroom needs. Initial findings highlight ChatGPT's potential to support the development of SRL skills by providing quick access to structured and verified information. However, its use must be carefully managed to prevent over-reliance and ensure critical evaluation of sources. Educators are responsible for guiding students in the wise use of AI, fostering critical thinking, and promoting independent learning. Integrating ChatGPT into lesson design can enhance science education by creating engaging units, providing clear rubrics, and supporting formative assessment. This research underscores the positive potential of ChatGPT in fostering inclusive and adaptive science education, while also addressing the need for responsible technology management to ensure student development and well-being.

Margosari Village, Limbangan District, Regency has abundant natural potential, including sugar palm trees which are used to make palm sugar. Palm sugar producers are monitored by the local Village Government in the Margosari Village Palm Sugar Center. This quality and original production of palm sugar is not matched by an adequate selling price. This service activity which is packaged in the form of training is intended to provide education and training on processing palm sap and with a touch of product innovation so that it can increase the selling price of palm sugar. Training on cooking palm sap with the addition of red ginger juice, turmeric, ginger, galangal, lemongrass and producing a finished product in the form of spiced ginger flavored palm sugar in one drink portion size. The training participants are partners of the Service Team who are SMEs palm sugar producers.  The training method uses the participatory learning and action (PLA) method. Participants are actively involved in training activities. The training consists of stages of pre-training evaluation activities, presentation of material, explanation of the tools and materials needed, demonstration of making products, discussion of training production results and post-training evaluation. The training activity ran smoothly from start to finish. It is hoped that the results of the training will continue so that partners will be interested in continuing production and making it a commercial business that is more profitable than producing palm sugar traditionally. After the training activities, the service team is still providing assistance so that the results of the partners' independent production are better. Assistance continues with consultations from partners regarding the net weight of the product and determining the selling price, and how to market the finished product to a wide audience. This positive partner response will be interesting to continue providing services to the community with other themes that are in line with the service roadmap in managing SMEs, such as assistance with attractive product packaging, business legal aspects, and digital-based marketing.

The rapid development of technology in recent decades has had a significant impact, on the field of education. The integration of educational technology in today's era emphasizes developing skills such as problem-solving, creativity, collaboration, criticism, and systematic thinking. But with the advancement of technology, it also presents various challenges. The qualitative descriptive method is one of the research methods used to understand a phenomenon in depth by collecting non-numerical data, such as words, images, or documents. This method focuses on describing and interpreting the phenomena being studied, collecting data through observations, interviews, or study of documents. Adapting to digital learning in this technological age where students have to develop independent skills, while teachers play an important role in understanding digital tools and integrating them into the learning process. With the advancement of technology, teachers can also have more varied media choices in learning and can collaborate and develop new skills according to the materials they are taught. It involves the use of techniques such as time blocking to set a specific time for learning, setting up a learning environment that minimizes distractions, using technology wisely, disciplining in using smartphones, and using applications or learning tools that help improve concentration.

In the current era, digital learning media began to be developed along with the rapid development of information technology. Educators are indirectly required to make adjustments to the development of information technology-based learning media. Gudang Teks is a Indonesian learning media program designed through the world wide web precisely on google-sites which is a place for storage of negotiation text materials. With this, this study was conducted to analyze information technology-based learning media on the use of LMS in the form of google-sites under the name "Text Warehouse" in the negotiation text learning process at the Class X high school level. The research methods used in this study are qualitative descriptive methods based on data analysis and literature studies. The development model used in research uses the type of research and development or Research and Development (R &D) with the 4-D development method developed by S. Thiagarajan and consists of 4 main stages, namely define, design, develop, and disseminate. The Text Warehouse is also analyzed using SWOT analysis in the form of strengths and weaknesses, opportunities, and threats so that they can be further evaluated and considered in their use. The results of the analysis show that the Text Warehouse is quite feasible to be used in the negotiation text learning process, especially in grade X high school students.

This research is motivated by the gap between the demands of the digital era on cutting-edge geography and the geography learning process at SMA Plus St. Albertus Agung Weleun, Malaka Regency. The learning process tends to be verbal and teacher-centered, the use of media with cutting-edge technology is still lacking in attention so that educators have minimal or lack of variation in using learning models and media. This has an impact on learning that is often boring and this condition affects student learning outcomes which are not yet satisfactory, which is the problem of this research. This study aims to determine: 1) the effect of the e-learning learning model assisted by the Kahoot application on student learning outcomes at SMA Plus St. Albertus Agung Weleun; 2) the difference in the effectiveness of the e-learning learning model assisted by the Kahoot application on student learning outcomes at SMA Plus St. Albertus Agung Weleun. This research is a quasi-experimental study with a Nonequivalent-Group Pretest-Posttest Design. The sample in this study were students in grades XA and XB where class XA was the experimental class and class XB was the control class. The data collection technique was carried out using a test instrument consisting of a pretest and posttest developed based on teaching materials. The instrument has met the requirements for validity and reliability. The difference in learning outcomes between the control group and the experimental group was analyzed using the T-test, while in this study it was the independent sample t-test and the n-gain score test. The various analysis techniques were analyzed using SPSS version 24.00. The results of the study showed that: 1) there is a significant effect of the e-learning learning model assisted by the Kahoot application on the learning outcomes of students at SMA Plus St. Albertus Agung Weleun with a sig value (2-tailed) of 0.000 ≤ 0.05. 2) the e-learning learning model assisted by the Kahoot application is less effective in improving student learning outcomes, the experimental class value is 54.9550 and the control class using conventional methods is not effective in improving student learning outcomes, the value is 15.1133.

The challenges facing Islamic teaching require development to ensure its relevance and adequacy. The research conducted examines the challenges and advances in Islamic learning in the present day. The reason for this consideration is to distinguish advances in Islamic teaching and learning to form a bright generation of Muslims in modern times. The research method is a literature study (library literature) and analysis of various related materials in relevant books and journals. The discussion states that the utilization of ICT innovations, the development of portable applications, and the utilization of computer media are developments that can enhance the learning experience of students. However, challenges such as limited access to innovations and the increasing number of challenges to be overcome also raise concerns. The conclusion is that Islamic learning requires advancements related to innovative technologies, taking into account challenges such as limited access and the increasing breadth of challenges to be overcome. It is imperative that educators and governments work together to minimize these challenges and ensure that Islamic teaching remains relevant and valuable in the age of computerization.

This research aims to develop a product in the form of a digital module with the Canva platform and flipbook maker to improve student learning outcomes in cost accounting courses on the topic of cost of orders. Digital modules make it easy for students to access and increase students' interest in learning. This development research uses the ADDIE research design and development model. The research results found that the feasibility level in terms of media was very good with a score of 94%, while in terms of feasibility the digital module material developed received a score of 95% with very feasible criteria. The effectiveness results show that the digital module is able to improve student learning outcomes on the topic of cost of goods ordered. Educators are required to be creative in developing teaching materials, so digital modules are a form of creativity in teaching materials by presenting audio, visuals, animation and flexibility in use.      

This activity aims to enhance the knowledge of teachers at SMP Plus Miftahul Falah in utilizing digital media and AI-based applications to aid the learning process, develop teaching materials, create assessment tools, and design learning resources. The rapid advancement of digital learning media and AI-based applications underscores the importance for teachers to acquire knowledge about their usage. The utilization of this technology serves as support for 21st-century skills. The target beneficiaries of this community service are the teachers of SMP Plus Miftahul Falah. To achieve this objective, the community service method includes counseling, demonstrations, and training on the use of digital media in education. This activity encourages teachers to harness technology according to their needs to improve the quality of education while also developing 21st-century skills.