Shaping Good Character for Children Based on Local Wisdom Using Applications of Digital Fairy Tale

Abstract

Fairy tale, which is rich of moral value, (pronounced as local wisdom), here began to compete with cartoons,  robot movies, comics and a variety of games on line is able to amaze the children to sit for hours without ignoring the others. Sacredness and romance of  fairy tales as a primary source of valuable value that will be able to build the character of children to be pious, independent, courtesy and respect for others, as if it is faded along with  the advances in technology and communications. Along with the digital era, where children begin to be familiar with gadgets and other electronic devices, people should also improve the refreshment of fairy tales with various modifications in characterization, structure and discussion as well as the visual appearance of the fairy tale itself. The transition from conventional to digitizing fairy tale could be an alternative solution that fairy tale will not be left behind by children because of his naiveness. As character building is becoming growing issue nowadays, digital fairy tales can be a good model to shape children character. Noble character from fairy tales can be seen on the side of moral values. Moral values ​​depicted from the story as individual, social, and religious morals. Fairy tales containing the good values ​​must be preserved in order not to be lost.

Keywords: Character Building, Local Wisdom, Fairy Tale