Training of Utilization Technology in History Learning Based Merdeka Curriculum for High School History Teachers in the Klaten Regency

Abstract

Enter decades third in the 21st century as well as the era of the "Merdeka Curriculum" (Independent Curriculum), teachers, especially history teachers in Indonesia, are being prosecuted for being more capable and wise in utilizing progress technology so learning history becomes more interesting, contextual, and meaningful so that far from impression rote and boring. This challenge is also felt by high school history teachers in the Klaten Regency. Various technology up to date has available to support learning history but in fact, still many high school history teachers in Klaten met constraints, especially in exploring learning resources and media as well as creating learning media-based technology. For that, the History Education Study Program of Sebelas Maret University initiated exists training utilization technology in learning history based on Merdeka Curriculum for high school history teachers in the Klaten Regency. The method used is socialization and training. With socialization and training, this obtained conclusion is that: First, history teachers must understand the importance of technology in learning history, especially in the 21st century. Second, history teachers must keep going learn and improve their competence self in exploiting technology for optimizing history learning in terms of preparation, implementation, and evaluation; to prepare source study, create teaching materials, search and deliver material, determine models, methods, and learning media, assignment systems, and scoring system.