Learning Media to Enhance Learning Motivation of Poor Fisherman Children in South Sulawesi Province

摘要

Learning media utilization have important role in every phase of learning process, so learning materials which taught by teacher need to be visualized in a more realize, especially to enhance learning motivation poor fisherman children in coastal area of South Sulawesi. Learning by using media can facilitate teacher in implementing transfer of knowledge and can achieve learning objection more efficient and effective. The problem is why learning media need to be utilized in learning process and method to design an effective learning media to enhance learning motivation of poor fisherman's children in coastal area. This research aims is to find and describe why learning media need to be utilized in learning process and how to design an effective method to enhance learning objection for poor fisherman's children in coastal area. To achieve that objection, researcher use case study approach as research method in order to understand research object and subject deeply in a frame of research result analysis. This research result show that the importance of learning media in learning process especially for poor fisherman's children because (1) poor fisherman's children tend to thing concretely, so the abstract learning materials can be visualize more realistic and proper, (2) learning media utilization can enhance the motivation and desire to stay learning then achieve understanding and produce positive values for the children. (3) Learning media help to transfer direct experience which is related to the real phenomena. The next is effective method to design learning media which simple, clear, and easy to understand and also proper to learning subject. Method of learning media uses simple material and easy to known or understand and provided in picture, audio and audiovisual.