Development of Mobile Application Media to Grow Students' Interest in Learning Print Graphic Design at the Vocational High School Level

Abstract

Vocational High School (VHS) or SMK aims to produce graduates who are ready to work in accordance with their competencies. However, field facts show that there are many problems in the learning process, especially in printing graphic design (PGD) subjects so that conceptual understanding and student interest in learning PGD material have not been achieved. The purpose of this research is to create a mobile learning that can foster students' interest in learning and conceptual understanding of PGD material using a contextual teaching and learning model. The object of this research is vocational school students who have taken printing graphic design subjects. The research model uses the Sugiyono R&D model with the development product in the form of a mobile application with apk extension which is developed using Android Studio. The results of the use trial validation get an average percentage of 87.88%. While the average result of the test of student interest in learning gets a percentage of 82.8% and indicates that CTL-loaded mobile learning is very feasible to use and has a very high influence in growing vocational students' learning interest in PGD material.