Digital literacy of preservice science teacher

Abstract

The development of digital technology takes place very quickly and gives significant influences in various areas of life including education. The Standards of Academic Qualification and Teacher Competence has integrated the digital literacy on the competences of professional teachers. College has a big hand in equipping teachers with various competencies so that teachers are ready in carrying out their duties as educators. This study aims to identify the digital literacy of preservice science teacher who have attended science lectures. By using the Likert scaled questionnaire and guided interview, the researcher tries to explore five areas of digital literacy consisting of information, communication, content creation, safety, and problem solving. The results of this study indicate the digital literacy of preservice science teacher are in the medium category with the composition; information (2.97), communication (2.95), content creation (2.64), safety (2.63), and problem solving (2.12). It takes program that can stimulate the improvement digital literacy of preservice science teacher in order to able to innovate science learning activities using technology.