Dear educators. How are you today? I hope you are good.

Gaining a high quality education is everyone's dream. Education is a road to progress and is a sign of a more developed nation. Advanced cultures put education as one of their main focuses of societal development. This is due to the belief that building a more advanced nation needs good quality education to teach people to hold more specialized jobs that need training and special knowledge. Those wanting to grow a society have a large stake in the business of educating people to better a city. Unfortunately, this is not the case for developing and poor countries. People in developing and poor countries are aware of the importance of education but there is no significant effort to improve it.

As a focus for the field of education, teachers should be responsible for both good and bad education. In order to realize that education needs to become more advanced, teachers need to be held accountable for their jobs and need to attend training to learn skills to educate students. There are many areas of education in developing and poor countries where teachers need to step up to improve the quality of education they offer students.

One new area that can help teachers improve quality of education is through the use of comic-based learning. This is the use of comics as educational forms of media attractive to young people and fun to use in the classroom. Comics are easy to create and with simple computer programs, cheap to produce.

Comic-based learning is the use of an alternative form of media in addition to traditional teaching techniques. Comic-based learning is an easy form of teaching for educators to use in the classroom. Comic books are easy to read, fun for students to use, and attractive to young students. The designs of comic books can be done using special software on computers. Comics can be designed by teachers to contain information they want students to learn. Teachers take numerous images and put them in the form of a comic book to display teaching materials to accompany traditional styles of teaching like lectures.

Teachers can take pictures of students or can take drawings of students and can create comic book character to fit the topic being learned. Furthermore, any real pictures used in the comics can be changed to look like comics by using elements like speech bubbles, the separation of frames, narration text, and more. Comic design software is designed to help teachers turn pictures into comics and have a wide variety of templates to create comics to teach students.

There are several benefits of using comic-based learning media. These benefits include:

1. Students focus more on learning when using a fun learning technique. Because the images are displayed in comic form, students can read material easier and through a more attractive means of learning. In addition to this, students feel honored to display their own images in comic books to share with other students.
2. Learning materials are easier to understand. Comic books are dominated by images with small amounts of writing. Students have an easier time understanding images. Comic books are exciting and fun to use and make so that students are not easily bored.
3. Learning is more interesting and fun. This is due to the majority of students loving comics. With comic-based learning models, it helps students to enjoy learning.
4. The mastery of class concepts by students increases. Students learn in a fun atmosphere, focus on learning is better, and learning materials are easier to understand which can improve student learning outcomes.

Enthusiasm of students using comic-based learning

Comic-based learning models improving student learning outcomes and can be a good alternative form of teaching in the classroom. In addition to being attractive to the world of students, comics are also easier to design and use by teachers. Teachers should use comic-based learning in their classrooms for teaching due to the positive outcomes. However, the media should be adapted using characteristics of learning materials needed for class. We recommend that teachers do a concept analysis first before deciding to use this form of media in teaching. That way teachers can determine whether or not it is an effective form of teaching for their classes.

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Pembelajaran Menggunakan Media Berbasis Komik

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Pendidikan yang berkualitas merupakan dambaan semua orang. Karena pendidikan merupakan jalan menuju kemajuan bangsa. Bangsa yang maju menempatkan pendidikan dalam fokus utama pembangunan. Hal ini disebabkan oleh keyakinan mereka bahwa membangun bangsa lebih maju melalui pendidikan yang berkualitas. Tidak heran jika stake holder pendidikan sangat diperhatikan kesejahteraannya. Tetapi tidak demikian bagi negara berkembang maupun negara miskin. Mereka menyadari akan pentingnya pendidikan tetapi tidak ada upaya yang signifikan untuk membenahinya.

Sebagai garda terdepan dalam dunia pendidikan, guru turut bertanggung jawab terhadap baik dan buruknya pendidikan. Guna mewujudkan pendidikan menjadi lebih berkualitas, pola pembelajaran yang dilakukan guru harus lebih baik. Banyak hal yang dapat dilakukan guru guna meningkatkan kualitas pendidikan. Salah satunya adalah penggunaan media pembelajaran yang baik dan sesuai dengan karakteristik materi pembelajaran. Salah satu media pembelajaran yang dapat digunakan adalah media pembelajaran berbasis komik.

Media pembelajaran berbasis komik merupakan salah satu alternatif penggunaan media yang sesuai dengan karakteristik materi pembelajaran. Media pembelajaran berbasis komik mudah di buat dan digunakan guru. Rancangan media berbasis komik ini dapat dilakukan melalui beberapa software. Sesuai dengan karakteristik komik yang banyak menampilkan gambar, maka media berbasis komik ini juga banyak menampilkan gambar. Guru dapat mengambil gambar siswa secara langsung maupun gambar lain yang sesuai dengan karakteristik materi pembelajaran. Selanjutnya gambar tersebut di setting sesuai dengan karakteristik komik. Biasanya di software desain komik sudah ada pilihan model gambar komik.

Terdapat beberapa manfaat menggunakan media pembelajaran berbasis komik. Manfaat tersebut diantaranya adalah:

1. Siswa lebih fokus untuk belajar. Hal ini disebabkan karena gambar yang ditampilkan dalam bentuk komik. Selain itu mereka merasa tersanjung karena menampilkan gambar mereka sendiri di media berbasis komik.
2. Materi pembelajaran lebih mudah dipahami. Hal ini disebabkan banyaknya gambar yang ditampilkan dibandingkan tulisan. Sebagaimana diketahui bahwa siswa lebih mudah memahami gambar dibandingkan tulisan. Media gambar membuat siswa tidak mudah bosan.
3. Pembelajaran lebih menarik dan menyenangkan. Hal ini disebabkan oleh mayoritas siswa menyukai komik. Dengan rancangan media berbasis komik membuat mayoritas siswa tersebut lebih menyukai pembelajaran.
4. Penguasaan konsep siswa meningkat. Hal ini merupakan implikasi dari penggunaan media berbasis komik. Siswa sudah belajar dengan suasana yang menyenangkan, fokus pembelajaran juga semakin baik, dan materi pembelajaran lebih mudah dipahami sehingga dengan sendirinya mampu meningkatkan hasil belajar siswa.

Antusiasme siswa dalam pembelajaran berbasis komik

Melihat begitu baiknya media berbasis komik dalam meningkatkan hasil belajar siswa, maka media berbasis komik ini dapat menjadi alternatif media pembelajaran yang baik untuk digunakan dalam pembelajaran. Selain sesuai dengan dunia siswa, media komik juga lebih mudah dirancang dan digunakan guru. Oleh karena itu sebaiknya guru menggunakan media pembelajaran berbasis komik dalam pembelajaran di kelas. Meskipun demikian sebaiknya media komik ini disesuaikan dengan karakteristik materi pembelajaran. Sebaiknya guru melakukan analisis konsep terlebih dahulu sebelum memutuskan menggunakan media dalam pembelajaran.

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