Penggunaan Media Teknologi Informasi dalam Pembelajaran Pendidikan Agama Kristen di Masa Pandemi Covid-19

Abstract

Christian religious education has a strategic role in the inheritance of the values of Christian life and faith as taught by the Bible, the Word of God, which can take place in families, churches and schools. The complaint that is often heard from the school and teachers is the lack of interest in learning PAK by students, which can be caused by traditional learning strategies such as the use of one-way and monotonous lecture methods. In order to overcome this the teacher must implement a variety of learning strategies, including those that allow the use of information technology media in it. In addition, the covid-19 phenomenon is a new challenge, especially in the world of education - learning that cannot be done face-to-face. Therefore, teachers as educators in schools must optimize their insights and skills in information technology to be able to answer the challenges in question. Parents who are responsible for their children's education should create a good climate at home and facilitate children's learning facilities. Children as students are obliged to optimize gadgets as a source of learning, and develop skills in the field of information technology (computers, internet) as a means of learning during the Covid-19 pandemic. In this paper, descriptive qualitative methods or library research are used to obtain and analyze data regarding the use of information technology in the learning process of Christian religious education during the pandemic. The findings obtained are that the use of information technology in Christian religious education has basically become a demand for Christian religious education teachers, especially in the era of disruption. During the Covid-19 pandemic, these demands were far different, and made Christian religious education teachers even more motivated and inevitably had to adjust to online learning, master and apply this educational technology so that in the end it resulted in learning Christian religious education in schools