The development of an android-based e-module to increase student's critical thinking skills: A comprehensive needs analysis

Education in the 21st century becomes important to ensure students have the skills to learn and innovate, the skills to use technology and information media, and can work, and survive by using the skills to live. In an era of increasingly sophisticated technological developments, it would be nice if these technological developments were used to create interesting and fun innovations during the learning process, such as using teaching materials based on information technology to support the learning process. The purpose of this research is to analyze the need to develop an Android-based mobile E-Module. The method used was descriptive qualitative research method, namely by conducting a needs analysis. Research data were collected through observation and interviews with fifth grade teachers and 30 students. The results of observational research indicated that students’ critical thinking attitudes are still very low and learning uses textbooks, and they still rarely use electronic media such as computers or androids to teach. Dealing with the pre-research conducted that teachers and students had desire that the teaching materials used in the learning process were developed so that they varied and facilitated to understand the material.