6 INNOVATION OF LEARNING THROUGH DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY TO PROMOTE BRAIN SKILLS TOWARDS CULTIVATING MORALITY AND ETHICS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH Innovation of Learning Through Digital Technology That Promotes Brain Skills to Cultivate Morality and Ethics for Children and Youth
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This research aimed to develop a learning innovation through digital technology that promotes brain skills to cultivate morality and ethics in children and youth, and to study the results of use and satisfaction with the learning innovation. The samples consisted of administrators, teachers, and students from schools under the Nakhon Sawan Municipality, consisting of 101 school administrators and teachers, and 221 elementary, lower, and upper secondary students. The research instruments were 1) the learning innovation context questionnaire, 2) the innovation quality assessment form, 3) the brain skills assessment form, and 4) the satisfaction questionnaire. Data analysis was performed using percentages, mean, standard deviation, and content analysis. The research results showed that:
- The learning innovation through digital technology that promotes brain skills to cultivate morality and ethics for children and youth was developed into four learning activity sets consisting of 1) a learning activity set on discipline, 2) a learning activity set on honesty and integrity, 3) a learning activity set on punctuality, and 4) a learning activity set on being a good role model. The overall quality assessment results were at a high level.
- The results of using the learning innovation through digital technology that promotes brain skills to cultivate morality and ethics for children and youth, with an average score of 2.39, accounting for 79.85 percent, and students were satisfied with the learning innovation through digital technology that promotes brain skills to cultivate morality and ethics at a high level overall.
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