Development of Media Based Electronic Book Local Wisdom to Improve Elementary Students’ Literacy

Abstract

E-book is a digital-based learning media that visualizes abstract material into visual form. The purpose of this research is to develop E-book learning media based on local wisdom. The development of this product uses an adaptation of the research and development model (Research & Development) using the ADDIE model. The result showed that the development of valid E-book media from material validator experts was 95% and 87% of learning media with very valid criteria. The result of the effectiveness of classical completeness from a pretest value of 6% increased to 94% very good category. The results of the normalized N-gain test from an average result of 0.627 are in the medium category with criteria quite effectively used in increasing the reading literacy of fifth grade students. Keywords: E-book, local wisdom, reading literacy