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| Muhammad Haddad Richard a student of Arabic Language Education Class of 2020 (Photo: Special) |
There are a lot of learning media, and it depends on who will learn it. The most popular one is learning media, which is application-based. Based on this, Muhammad Haddad Richard, a student of the Arabic Language Education Class of 2020, made a prototype of learning media in Islamic Religious Education for children with Down syndrome. Thanks to this innovation, he also won 2nd place at LTIQ SIQTAFEST 2023, held in Tangerang, Banten.
Haddad, his nickname, explained that the idea to make this application came when he saw and realized the various disabilities experienced by Down syndrome children, especially in learning. Therefore, the idea came up to design learning media that helps them improve the learning process.
He said application design and colour selection were one of his struggles in this project. This is due to the important role of colour in attracting the attention of children with Down syndrome. It is also essential to have easy operation tools in the application.
"Children with Down syndrome will certainly be interested in the right colour selection. If they are only given basic colours, I'm afraid they won't be interested and leave immediately without trying this application," he continued.
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The application designed by Haddad was named Alqolam.id. The applications will be accessible for users to utilize. Starting with registering and filling in personal data. Thus, the content in the application can be customized.
"After filling in the personal data, users will immediately enter the Alqolam.id application. In this application, there will be learning of hijaiyah letters, introduction to daily prayers and introduction to tajweed," he said.
In addition, the interesting thing that Alqolam will present is the three-dimensional display or augmented reality. According to him, this 3D display can make learning easier for children with Down syndrome.
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"Hopefully, this prototype will benefit children with Down syndrome and encourage other young people to create innovations. Not only innovations that benefit for themselves, but also provide goodness for many people or groups that many people don't realize," he concluded. (Rev/Wil/Put)
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