The industry 4.0 marks the fast-growing technology in many fields in order to achieve process efficiency in all of aspect of the industries, including education. The efficiency is derived from a big data, a real-time dataset collected from a vast amount of data from many instruments. Big data processing is used to predict market trends, discover new problem-solving and many more. Critical thinking, statistics, computing and the ability to understand how the world works are among important factors that has to be needed in big data processing. Among those abilities, critical thinking is an essential ability influencing directly the big data processing because this ability can aid students to decide the best alternative solutions in solving a problem. Nevertheless, the lack of good educational platform to host such important skills in the current Indonesian education makes it harder to cultivate good human resources that are able to comprehend big data processing. Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) is known to be the holistic educational approach that combines various disciplines into one set of educational approach to help students gain more skills and sharpen their knowledge in regards of the fast-growing industry 4.0 in Indonesia.

Higher Education is one of the levels of education that faces problems in the 21 st century, namely increased cases of brawls between students and university students, drinking, drugs, cases of extortion to violence between students and university students, the high level of lecturer trust in students to be able to take care of themselves, that is often misused and plagiarism of scientific work. This research aims to build character and dignified human beings that can integrate character education through Civic Education as a general compulsory subject in higher education. STIT Qurrota A'yun is one of the tertiary institutions that strive to build a religious, character and dignified campus. One of the strategies carried out by STIT Qurrota A'yun is with the Citizenship Education (PKn) policy as character education

This research aims to generate digital comic on ecosystem for thematic learning in elementary school. Research and development was used as method of the study. This study was conducted with five-grade students in five Public Elementary Schools, two Private Elementary Schools and two Integrated Islamic Primary Schools. The instruments of data collection used in this study were questionnaire and interview. The students questionnaire responses was analysed qualitative and quantitative for each item. The validity test of the developed digital comic on ecosystem is good validity categories. This finding also suggests that the developed digital comic can increase students’ motivation and interest in thematic learning. The development of digital comic learning media on thematic learning in elementary schools can motivate students in the learning process worthy of being used in learning. The feasibility of comic media is shown by the assessment of material experts by 3.51 (good), media expert’s assessment of 4.01 (good), teacher’s assessment as an education practitioner by 3.9 (good) and student questionnaire assessment by 3.93 (good).

The concept of air-having pressure needs to be understood by students so that they can understand natural phenomena related to the air concept. The characteristic of the abstract concept of air having pressure leads students to misconceptions. The purpose of this study is to analyze changes in students' conceptions of the air-having pressure concept by using the POE strategy. The research method used was a pre-experiment with one group pretest-posttest design. Pretest and posttest questions were given to students using the five-level diagnostic test instrument with a total of three questions. The ability to predict-test and the ability to observe-test were performed with four questions on each test. The participants of this study consisted of 31 fifth grade students in the even semester. The categorization of conception change is divided into five patterns: construction, revision, static, disorientation, and complementation. Based on the analysis, revision had the highest percentage followed by construction. The conclusion is that the POE strategy can help students in understanding the concept of air-having pressure so that there was a change from misconception to understanding scientific concepts.

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