The era of globalization brings much impact on the lives of everyone from children, youth, adults and the elderly. Between positive and negative impacts, of course there are many negatives if we do not respond wisely. The role of character education in life is very important, especially religious education. With a strong religious education is also created a good human character. Based on the results of observation on elementary school students, there is a very poor problem related to their character. Character degradation is found in children of primary school age where they are easily affected by the negative influence of the development of the era. The purpose of this study is to describe the results of implementation of Islamic education in shaping the religious character of elementary school students. The method used in this research is action research. The subjects of this research are 5th grade students of SDN Tambakromo 2 of Ngawi Regency with a number of 25 people. The results of the study showed a significant change from the original 85% of children with character values below the average then after the action dropped to 13% of children who are still difficult to change their character. Of the 87% of respondents felt the habituation of Islamic education in life brought many changes in their religious character. Habits made include: carrying out morning exercises, memorizing letters in the Koran, praying in congregation, saying greetings, and saying politely. In monitoring all the habits, used diary daily activities.

Pandemi Covid-19 menyebabkan dampak yang luar biasa terhadap seluruh aspek kehidupan terutama dalam bidang pendidikan. Dampak nyata dalam bidang pendidikan adalah terhalangnya pembelajaran tatap muka dikarenakan pembatasan sosial berskala besar dan social distancing yang dihimbaukan oleh pemerintah. Hal tersebut mempengaruhi proses pembelajaran yang semula tatap muka menjadi pembelajaran daring. Masalah yang timbul adalah kebutuhan akan jaringan internet dan paket data yang memadai, selain itu kualitas pembelajaran yang belum didukung dengan perangkat yang mencukupi mengakibatkan menurunnya minat belajar siswa. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah mgengetahui tingkat efektifitas Small Group Discussion dengan model Problem Based Learning dalam pembelajaran di masa pandemi Covid-19.Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah observasi, wawancara dan deskriptif kualitatif. Subyek dari penelitian ini adalah siswa Sekolah Dasar kelas 4, 5, dan 6 dengan jumlah 30 orang dengan instrumen penelitian berupa angket dan lembar observasi.Hasil dari penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa 94% siswa memberikan respon positif dengan adanya sistem pembelajaran Small Group Discussion dengan model Problem Based Learning. Mereka merasa terbantu dengan sistem pembelajaran ini dan minat belajar mereka meningkat. Dari analisis data, tingkat efektifitas menunjukkan 96%. Kesimpulannya, pembelajaran dengan metode Small Group Discussion dengan model Problem Based Learning dinyatakan efektif sebagai metode pembelajaran di masa pandemi Covid-19

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Building relationships in the classroom is a part of a teacher's duty and career. By making healthy relationships from teacher to learner or learner to learner is an effective way to prevent a pedagogical problem, social conflict, and some different behavior. There are so many strategies are available that can be used to reach a good relationship between teacher to learner or learner to learner. By knowing the detail of learners' relationship, it can be helped the teacher to be a successful teacher in pedagogical work. Small group teaching and learning has become more popular and achieved an admirable position in education especially in elementary students. It can encourage the students in their studies and enhance the process of deep learning. The small group teaching-learning characteristics are the active involvement of the learners in the learning cycle. The essential components in the development of small group teaching and learning sessions are preliminary considerations at the departmental and institutional level including educational strategies, group composition, physical environment, existing resources, diagnosis of the needs, formulation of the objectives, and suitable teaching outline. Small group teaching increases the student interest, teamwork ability, retention of knowledge and skills, enhances transfer of concepts to innovative issues, and improves self-directed learning. It develops self-motivation, investigating the issues, allows the student to test their thinking and higher-order activities. It also facilitates an adult style of learning, acceptance of personal responsibility for own progress.

Language acquisition is the process of language mastery done by children naturally when they learn their mother of tongue. The era of globalization with the presence of sophisticated technology requires children to be able to use technology well. With the presence of technology, it makes it easy for children to learn many things, especially languages. The purpose of using language learning media based on the educational game culture character of the android system is to increase language acquisition for early childhood. With this language learning media, early childhood is helped in understanding and mastering verbal vocabulary. In addition, in this era, many people have Smart Phones that can load various applications. In addition, it is very easy for parents to access or open an android-based media application from their Smart Phones. The research method used is research and development. This development was carried out in the learning media, namely language learning media based on the educational character of the culture system of the android system. This study uses the Borg and Gall development theory which has been simplified into six stages. This research was conducted at PAUD / TK in the Ngawi Regency, East Java. The research subjects are early childhood and parents in PAUD/TK Ngawi Regency with a total of 50 people. The results of this study are in the form of educational learning applications based on the educational game culture character of the Android system. The results of the data analysis showed that, from 50 respondents who are parents of children, 44 people stated that the media ere feasible and very useful and 45 people gave positive responses. From the results of the addition of the acquisition of children's language shows 46 children experienced progress and the addition of the acquisition of a new language. The results of this study are expected to facilitate early childhood in language acquisition