The Use of Interactive Multimedia to Build Awareness Against Animal Exploitation in Environmental Conservation Education for Children Ratih Ayu Pratiwinindya (a*), Naomi Alfatah (b), Rahina Nugrahani (c), Triyanto (a), Nadia Sigi Prameswari (b), Pratama Bayu Widagdo (b)
a) Visual Art Education Department, Universitas Negeri Semarang, Indonesia
Gedung B9, Jurusan Seni Rupa, FBS, Universitas Negeri Semarang, Kampus Sekaran Gunungpati, Semarang
*ratihayu_psr[at]mail.unnes.ac.id
b) Visual Art Department, Universitas Negeri Semarang, Indonesia
c) Visual Communication Design Department, Universitas Negeri Semarang, Indonesia
Abstract
Many people do not realize that actions involving animals often involve violence to the animals. Some of these actions are influenced by regional cultural traditions such as Adu Bagong, Sabung Ayam, and Topeng Monyet, which for the most part of them are a lot watched by children and unfortunately this situation become a common things. Therefore, it is necessary to have an ideal education about preservation of biological resources, flora, fauna, and the environments for the community that can be obtained from appropriate activities through environmental conservation education. In the development of digital-based media today, interactive multimedia combined with fun learning is relevant to deliver information and to educate the children as early as possible. The purpose of this study is to analyze the usefulness of interactive multimedia as learning resource to build awareness in the environmental conservation education, especially against animal exploitation for children. The researchdesign employed the following steps: (1) designing the interactive multimedia; (2) produce interactive multimedia; (3) implementing interactive multimedia for elementary students as a learning resource; and (4) evaluating the result and learning process. The research subjects are 32 student from SDIT Mutiara Hati, Semarangwho are studying the theme of learning about caring for the environment. The results showed that by using interactive multimedia as a learning resource, student’s ability to know, understand, and mention what activitiescan be done as an environmental conservation activities against animal exploitation has increased. Therefore, it can be concluded that interactive multimedia becomes the right strategy to deliver information as an effort to build awareness against animal exploitation in environmental conservation education for childrens.
