Developing Digital Story Telling and Educational Games to Improve Early Childhood Cognitive Ability

Abstract

This study aims to produce a development of a digital literacy learning model using digital story telling media and educational game applications so that there is an increase in the cognitive abilities of early childhood with the support of teachers and parents. The research was carried out in Pembina State Kindergarten, Porsea District, Toba Regency, Early Childhood Education of Tamawi and Early Childhood Education of Al Barokah in Langkat Regency, using a research and development design as proposed by Borg and Gall (2003: 624). The research design used in this study was a one group pretest posttest design. The technique for collecting data in this study was to use observation, tests and documentation. The results showed that there was a significant effect on 45 early childhood children in Pembina State Kindergarten Porsea, Early Childhood Education of Tamawi and Early Childhood Education of AL Barokah Langkat Regency who carried out digital literacy learning using digital story telling and educational games on cognitive development, this can be seen from the increase from pre-test scores to post-test scores before and after treatment.Thus, it can be concluded that the development of digital literacy learning models using digital story telling and educational game applications can improve the cognitive abilities of early childhood.