Abstract
The purpose of this study is to make an e-book about disaster prevention education.Also,the influences on elementary school students’ reading e-books about disaster knowledge,attitudes,and skills are included.This study aims to raise schoolchildren’s insterests in disaster knowledge with the interactive interface the e-book provides.
In this study,ADDIE was used to design the disaster education e-book and Smart Apps Creator was used to produce the ebook.The research method was quasi-experiemental research.27 elementary students participated in the experimental group and 38 were in the control group.The students in the experimental group learned disaster education by reading e-book while the ones in the control group learned by reading texts on paper version.Differences and changes in the disaster knowledge,attitudes,and skills between the two groups were discussed.
The research indicated the following results and findings:
1. The use of ADDIE in designing and making disaster education e-book was practical.
2. The use of e-book was helpful for brodening schoolchildren’s knowledge of disaster education.
3. The use of disaster education ebook had no remarkable influence on promoting schoolchildren’s attitudes or skills of disaster education.
4. School children showed positive attitudes towards learning disaster education by reading disaster education ebooks.
According to the results of the study,disaster education ebooks are supposed to be implemented with disaster activities.The broadening and deepening of disaster education ebooks as well as the involvement of qualitative research can be considered in future studies.
Keywords: disaster prevention education, e-book, and ADDIE.
