E-Moodle Flipbook: Cultural Heritage-based Social Studies Learning Media Platform to Improve Student’ Critical Thinking Skill in the Digital Age

Abstract

This research aims to determine the effectiveness of using cultural heritage-based moodle flipbook in improving students' critical thinking skills. This research method is a quasi-experiment with the matching-only pretest-posttest control group design. This research was conducted at SMP Negeri 1 Makassar, Indonesia with a sample of 70 students, consisting of class VII C 35 students (control class) and class VII D 35 students (experimental class). Effectiveness was measured based on the n-Gain of test results analysed by t-test developed by Hake. The results found that the use of moodle flipbook as a cultural heritage-based social studies learning media platform was effective enough to improve students' critical thinking skills, as evidenced by the experimental class n-Gain (7,343%) higher and significantly different from the control class (3,944%). The results of the cultural heritage-based moodle flipbook practicality test by teacher 93% (very practical) and students were 84% (very practical), and the percentage of experimental class student activity (76,6%) was higher than the control class (56,3%) from all aspects observed. This research contributes to cultural heritage based on modern technology can be used to revive and spread ancient traditions as Memory of the world.