Digital literacy of preservice science teacher Rahmat Rizal (a), Wawan Setiawan (b), Dadi Rusdiana (b)
a) Departemen Pendidikan Guru Sekolah Dasar, STKIP Sebelas April, Jl. Angkrek Situ No. 19, Sumedang 45323, Indonesia
b) Sekolah Pascasarjana, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Jl. Dr. Setiabudi No. 229, Bandung 40154, Indonesia
Abstract
The development of digital technology takes place very quickly and gives significant influences in various areas of life including education. The Regulation of the Minister of National Education of the Republic of Indonesia Number 16 2007 on The Standards of Academic Qualification and Teacher Competence have 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 questionnaires and 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 science teacher candidates are in the medium category with the composition; information (2.97), communication (2.95), content creation (2.63), safety (2.63), and problem solving (2.1). 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
Keywords: digital literacy, preservice science teacher, technology
