Instilling Healthy Lifestyle Behavior into Prospective Physical Education Teachers through the 30 Day Fitness Challenge Application
Tatang Muhtar, Tedi Supriyadi, Ayi Suherman
Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia
Abstract
The utilization of Information and Communication Technology for the millennials is a requirement, one of which is in the learning of Physical Education (Penjas – Pendidikan Jasmani). The teachers are expected to develop the competencies in the mastery and utilization of ICT in the learning process. Therefore, this research aims at exploring the prospective physical education teachers- skills in the utilization of ICT in the process of physical education learning as an effort to instill healthy lifestyle behavior into prospective physical education teachers by using an Android-based 30 Day Fitness Challenge application.. The procedure of this research are: 1) searching the application, 2) understanding of the application, 3) conducting learning process through the application and 4) evaluating of the learning outcomes. This research was conducted in one of the universities in Sumedang Regency by involving 100 students of prospective physical education teachers, consisting of 65 male students and 35 female students. The findings revealed that the use of this application had an effect on healthy lifestyle behavior with the indicators, for example, 1) the subjects had the understanding of the steps in instilling healhy lifestyle behavior, 2) the increase in motivation affected the importance of healthy lifestyle behavior, and 3) the subjects were getting used to conduct sport activities through this application. Therefore the utilization of the 30 Day Fitness Challenge application was able to instill the healthy lifestyle character in the prospective physical education teachers in Sumedang Regency.
Keywords: Android-based application, healthy lifestyle behavior, physical education
Topic: Computer Science Education