<![CDATA[Social competence is a fundamental skill that must continue to be developed among elementary school students, particularly lower-grade students who are transitioning from parallel play to cooperative play. However, classroom practice at SDK Olabolo is still constrained by the limited availability of interactive digital media that carries local wisdom to stimulate students’ social interaction. This community service program assisted lower-grade teachers at SDK Olabolo in using the GAULL application (a Wordwall-based educational game) that integrates the local wisdom of Woe Are “Peo Heda” to improve teachers’ digital literacy and students’ social skills. The program applied a Participatory Action Research (PAR) approach combined with the ADDIE model, covering observation, a three-day workshop, in-class mentoring, and evaluation through teacher performance assessment and pre- and post-intervention observation of students’ social skills (one-group design). The participants were all teachers and students of grades I–III. The results show an improvement in teachers’ digital literacy and an increase in students’ mean social skills score from 1.95 (Fair) to 3.20 (Good) on a 1–4 scale, with gains of 57.9%–72.2% across six indicators: cooperation, patience in taking turns, compliance with rules, empathy, interpersonal communication, and responsibility. Interpersonal communication had the lowest final score (2.9). The program produced a Game-Based Learning model that bridges the strengthening of teachers’ digital competence and the preservation of local cultural identity, and it is recommended for replication with a comparison group.]]>
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