historical learning: digital map implementation to improve historical explanation ability

One of historical learning goal in indonesia is to instill knowledge of historical facts and insights concerning past events, and character attitudes and values. it will produce quality outputs that include understanding the historical event, imitating the wisdom, and the wisdom of the historical offender. therefore, the improving of the cognitive ability requires easy, cheap, interesting and interactive learning media is needed to improve the ability of historical explanation in accordance to the development of information communication and technology (ict). learning media in accordance to historical material is needed to be applied in the historical learning digital-based. this research was conducted in sma negeri 5 surakarta with the research subject of class xi mipa 1 research which 32 people. this research is an experimental research. the data collection used a digital assessment questionnaire and an instrument with 10 questions to measure the increase in historical explanations. this study aims to see the application of digital-based maps to improve the ability of historical explanation. the research result shows that there is an increase in the ability of historical explanation by using digital maps.