Civic Literacy Reinforcement to Cope with the Age of Free Flow of Information: Lesson Learned from Students in Boarding School Environment

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10.2991/assehr.k.200129.146How to use a DOI?

Keywords

civic literacy, free flow of information, boarding school

Abstract

The free flow of information occurs along with the rapid development of information technology in the industrial era 4.0. Reinforcing students’ civic literacy is an effort to prevent negative impacts arising from the phenomenon of free flow of information such as hate speech, hoax news, and understanding radicalism. Civic literacy provides students an overview and considerat accessing and transmitting information on internet. Reinforcing students’ civic literacy requires an effective strategy, which is integrated into all students’ structured and systematic learning activities. This research aims to explore strategies used to reinforce students’ civic literacy in boarding school to cope with the free flow of information. This research is designed with qualitative method and used purposive sampling technique to obtain the data. The subjects of this research are Civic Education subject teachers, head of boarding school, and students. The data collection was carried out by document study techniques, interviews, and observations. Data analysis techniques are carried out by data reduction, data presentation, drawing conclusions, and verification. The results of this study indicate that reinforcing students’ civic literacy to cope with the free flow of information covers three aspects, among others data literacy, technology literacy, and human literacy carried out in the two domains, learning at school and boarding school.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ikrimah Saputra
AU  - Moh. Muchtarom
AU  - Triyanto
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/02/06
TI  - Civic Literacy Reinforcement to Cope with the Age of Free Flow of Information: Lesson Learned from Students in Boarding School Environment
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Learning Innovation and Quality Education (ICLIQE 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1183
EP  - 1191
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200129.146
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200129.146
ID  - Saputra2020
ER  -