Improving the Creativity of Elementary School Students Grade 5 in Yogyakarta using Canva

Abstract

In the 21st century, students are required to have skills to compete in the global era, one of the skills that must be possessed is creativity and innovation. The purpose of this study is to enhance the creativity of primary school students in class V through the use of Canva media. The subjects of this study were grade V students of Yogyakarta City in the 2022/2023 academic year as many as 13 students. This research is a collaborative classroom action research conducted using Kemiis and Mc Taggart's model. This model consists of planning, action, observation, and reflection. This research uses data collection methods consisting of observation and work. The results of this study indicate that the use of Canva media can increase students' creativity in Indonesian language content. This can be seen from the evaluation of the students' creativity aspects, which shows an increase of 52.69% before the action, 60.00% in cycle I, 75.38% in cycle II, and 83.46% in cycle III.  The success indicator is that the students' creativity indicator reaches a minimum percentage of 75%. And in Cycle 3, the percentage of student creativity reached 83.46%. Therefore, it can be concluded that canva media can increase the creativity of elementary school students in grade V in Yogyakarta City because it has been in compliance with the success indicators.