Integration of spatial elements in geography subject using GIS technology / Nurul Amirah Izzati Mohd Anuar

The Ministry of Education Malaysia (MOE) is committed to promote 21st-century technology advancements in learning and facility in line with Malaysia's Education Development Plan 2013–2025. In addition, the Perlis Education Transformation Plan outlines goals to increase numbers of competence of teachers and students as well as advance technology in the classroom. Students' interest in geography is dropping because they find it difficult to understand, and teachers are just beginning to use technology, which has little impact on students' learning. Thus, this study i) determine spatial elements to be adopted in geography content, ii) integrate spatial elements into digital geography content, and iii) assess student’s understanding using digital geography content by pre-post survey. The Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) model was applied to assess the students' understanding during hands-on workshop at SMK Dato’ Sheikh Ahmad, Perlis to effectively teach and engage students in the digital age. According to result from the paired sample t-test from pre and post survey, respondents had a very positive improvement and shows that Geography storytelling platform statistically significant. All the p-value <0.05 in student knowledge, student comprehension and student application conclude that students’ understanding using digital geography content increases at the end of the survey compared to the beginning.