21st Century Education & Digital Literacy

21st Century Education

If we're talking about education in the 21st century, it has to do with the development of society. Because the world of education also follows the course of time. Regarding the development of societies from hunting society, agrarian society, the industrial society, information society, to the super smart society.

Then, what generation are you? And what generation are your students? At present it is already the fifth generation from several previous generations whose birth year was about 1922 to 1994 or, in other words, the z generation in which this generation was already an expert at operating technology, technology is already a part of their lives, never lost, multi collaborators, multi profilled, multi pesonality, and multi locations.

Digital Literacy

Digital literacy means having the skills need to live, learn and work in a society where communication and information are increasingly accessed through digital technologies such as internet platforms, social media and mobile devices. There are several points of digital literacy :

1. Critical thinking and evaluation
2. Collaboration
3. Creativity
4. Communication and netiquette
5. Finding and selecting information
6. Digital culture
7. Online safety skills
8. Functional skills