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Engaging Student with Digital Literacy to Have Good Critical Thinking for Sustainable Future
The expansion of the internet and other platforms or digital communication have opened up new
dimensions and opportunities for collaborative learning and information sharing in various forms as
learning communities, discussion groups, and chat rooms. Based on the research, there are 132 million
internet users in 2023. This number, quickly develop until 51% in a year. This fact, tends to be a powerful
fact that all people especially student have been connected with internet. Thereby, what makes me
interest to choose digital literacy as my speech is because digital literacy can be educational tool to have
a good critical thinking for Indonesian students practically.
Digital literacy can be defined as survival skills in the digital era. It constitutes a system of skills and
strategies used by users and learners in digital environment. Besides, critical thinking is the ability to
analyze information objectively, evaluate evidence, and draw sound conclusions. It is a fundamental skill
that equips us to navigate the complexities of the modern world and make informed decisions. Thereby,
digital literacy becomes an important thing to determine how your critical thinking ability take stronger
about the fast development of technology in modern world.
Unfortunately, we see a lot of students are skill less in having critical thinking and understanding
about the importance role of digital literacy. Whereas, digital literacy it self really help us in the persistence
of teaching learning activity that is implemented by online learning such the use of digital media as
platform of teaching learning process. Because, nowadays all things are connected into technology. By that
digital literacy demand student and teacher to understand deepen and use digital technology critically.
Therefore, this leads us to a hope where we can use information technology and communication as well
as possible.
But some questions blow up! How can we empower young people to develop critical thinking skills
and become responsible digital citizens? Should they implement digital literacy? Should we force them to
implement it? As if they do not utilize it, they will be left behind and far away from they educational
development. Looking as those, possibility we should realize and contemplate gathering our critical
thinking through some manners as follows:
1. Promoting digital literacy can help young people to understand how media massages are
constructed and how they can be influenced by various factors. By learning about digital literacy,
young people can become more discerning consumers of information and less susceptible to
manipulation.
2. The government should attentive toward their condition by giving some facilities such as
smartphone and computer. This will give new spirit for student to learn. Also, studying about
digital literacy must be given to all Indonesians student to improve their critical thinking and
understanding about it.
Eventually digital literacy becomes a prime away in helping student’s capability to dig the deepest
education in globalization era. By respecting education and actualizing it in our habitual life, we hope to
create and make better world. As Nelson Mandela stated that “Education and critical thinking are the most
powerful weapon which we can use to change the world”