INCULCATING ECOLOGICAL ATTITUDE THROUGH THE USE OF ICANDO APPLICATIONS IN IMPROVING THE EARLY GROSS MOTORIC ASPECTS OF CHILDREN IN THE AKMALA KINDERGARTEN CIREBON Suteja Suteja1, Moh. Ali2, Nurhayati Nurhayati3 Alwy Husein Prawironegoro6.
1State Institute for Islamic Religion of Cirebon, suteja[at]syekhnurjati.ac.id
2State Institute for Islamic Religion of Palu, moh.ali[at]iainpalu.ac.id
3State Institute for Islamic Religion of Cirebon, nurhayati[at] syekhnurjati.ac.id
4State Senior High School 7 Cirebon City, cakranegara19[at]gmail.com
Abstract
It is very important to instill a caring attitude for early childhood towards the environment so that it is expected to be able to maintain and care for the surrounding environmental problems, of course by using media or applications that are fun and easy to use by early age children so that they can always remember and implement them in their daily lives. This is where children^s gross motor skills can be developed optimally with the efforts of teachers, media, learning strategies, and games using gadgets with the ICANDO application. This research is qualitative research with the aim to improve the quality of learning in the classroom. The data collection techniques used are observation, interviews, and documentation. The results showed that the gross motor skills of children through the ICANDO application in an ecological attitude, are being able to realize discipline, responsibility, and love for the environment with ICANDO games by matching pictures of plants and plants including the ecological environment in schools, families, and communities in the learning process. So the use of the ICANDO application in planting ecological attitudes can improve the gross motor skills of early childhood in Akmala Sabila Kindergarten, Cirebon Regency
