Kinetic Sand Games To Overcome The Dependence Of Gadget Dependence On Children In Elementary School Age

Authors

  • Nurhidayah Nurhidayah STIKES Ganesha Husada

Keywords:

Kinetic sand layout, Gadget dependence, Elementary school age children.

Abstract

The development of digital technologies such as gadgets has grown very rapidly in the last decade, which applications often do not determine the age range for users, especially for children. Today, parents are faced with the dilemma of letting their children use these modern gadgets, which often cause serious addiction or keep them in the dark and risk facing children who know nothing. These problems also occur in MI Miftahul Huda students in the Tulungagung Regency in East Java province. The research was conducted on February 20 to March 20, 2024. This research was only limited to one class, namely class 2 with the dependence of the gadget to be given an alternative game of kinetic sand. The design of this study uses experimental quasy with pre and post design tests. The population in this study were MI Miftahul Huda Pulerejo Tulungagung students who were dependent on gadgets that met the research inclusion criteria. The sample in this study were 23 respondents. The problem of gadget dependency data has a very high level, which will affect the development of children's social skills. For that, a suitable method is needed for analyzing it, the method that has been used is to use traditional games by playing with their peers. Another solution researchers will use the game of kinetic sand to overcome the problem of gadget dependence on children, which has benefits in playing kinetic sand such as for creativity and as a gathering place for socialization. The general objective is to play kinetic sand to develop social skills in children, while the specific goal is to find out whether kinetic sand is the right game tool to overcome gadget dependency problems in primary school-age children. The expected benefits are the proposer researchers can socialize the game of kinetic sand to teachers and guardians of students in elementary school so that after this study ends, the game of kinetic sand can be applied to students or children of primary school age. The plan of this activity will begin with 1) collecting academic data, distributing questionnaires to student guardians, 2) data analysis, 3) testing using kinetic sand games, 4) discussing the results of the trial. The output that will be carried out are scientific publications in accredited national journals or non-accredited national journals.

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Published

2024-09-18

How to Cite

Nurhidayah Nurhidayah. (2024). Kinetic Sand Games To Overcome The Dependence Of Gadget Dependence On Children In Elementary School Age. Proceeding of The International Conference of Inovation, Science, Technology, Education, Children, and Health, 4(2), 111–117. Retrieved from https://icistech.org/index.php/icistech/article/view/91

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