Development of Mobile Learning Applications with Augmented Reality to Build VHS Students' Critical Thinking

Cameras and photography aids are one of the learning materials in multimedia vocational schools which are still mostly taught by the lecture method and the learning media used are less interactive such as printed books, so the process of understanding the material becomes less in-depth. This learning requires objects in the learning process, but because of the high price of photographic equipment, it is difficult for students to learn it either at school or independently. This study develops a mobile learning media for android about cameras and photography aids based on augmented reality which provides camera object observation features and photography aids in 3D and augmented reality so that it can trigger students' critical thinking patterns better. Assessment with UEQ on this learning media get an average value of Excellent. After using this learning media, students were tested for critical thinking and got the results that 66.6% of the total respondents were classified as high-level critical thinking, 25% classified as moderate level critical thinking, and the remaining 8.33% classified as low-level critical thinking. At the time of developing this learning media, he received advice from material and media experts in the form of navigation improvements, material revisions, and user interface revisions. The future development of this application requires a database system that can make it easier for teachers to manage student data in the application.