Integrating Artificial Intelligence and Local Wisdom in Disaster Comics to Strengthen Social Studies Learning in Coastal Cities
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https://doi.org/10.61806/al-tatawur.v4i1.118Keywords:
Artificial Intelligence, Coastal Urban Communities, Disaster Comics, Disaster Mitigation, Social Studies EducationAbstract
This study investigates the development of artificial intelligence (AI)-based disaster comics as an instructional medium for strengthening Social Studies learning in coastal urban settings. The study is motivated by the high vulnerability of Semarang City to floods and tidal flooding, along with the urgent need for disaster mitigation learning media that are contextual, visually engaging, and responsive to the learning characteristics of junior high school students. Adopting a Research and Development (R&D) design based on the Borg and Gall model, the study involved needs assessment, prototype design, product development, expert validation, and preliminary effectiveness testing using pre-test and post-test measures. The findings reveal that the digital comic, Flood in the Urban Village, is highly feasible and effective in enhancing students’ understanding of disaster mitigation. For publication in an international Scopus-indexed journal, the concept of local wisdom can be more explicitly positioned as a pedagogical framework that connects disaster literacy with the sociocultural realities of coastal urban communities.
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