Building Students’ Islamic Characters through Information, Communication dan Technology Literacy

Abstract

In today’s digital world, technology has contributed to an expanded understanding of literacy. Besides having literacy skills, today’s students – millennials - also need technology skills for communicating, investigating, accessing, and using information, thinking critically about messages inherent in new media. Teachers and staff development need to learn the use of technology as well as guiding and opening the students’ perspective where the technology will help them to support the Muslim world. The use of ICT is not only to create the generation with the advanced knowledge in technology but also to have the Islamic character in the future. It is bringing about new opportunity for educators, because it can provide powerful support to educational innovation in creating future generation with Islamic characters. In short, this article is mainly about how the convergence of both literacy instruction and ICT in staff development can help in promoting future generation with Islamic characters. 
 Keywords: Students and teachers, ICT literacy, Islamic Characteremotion

Integration of Modern ICTs as Modes of Instruction for Islamic Education in Higher Institutions of Learning

“…The fear may also be embedded in the teachers' trust towards the sources of information as the internet and technologies are a huge pile of both good and bad, whereas the learners could be availed with credible sources, it thus becomes the duty of the teacher to train the learners' minds to read between lines and be able to distinguish between relevant and reliable information and to have an eye that can detect falsehood hence freely navigating the internet without fear. Besides, Sartika et al (2018) recommend teachers not be afraid of new technologies and not to perceive them as a replacement for their jobs but rather to blend and use modern ICTs as conduits to reach out to learners.…”

Influence of Integrated Information Communication Technology on Public Education Institution

“…The use of ICT in schools, according to Andiema, (2016), leads to educational and pedagogical outcomes which is useful to both the facilitators, teachers and the students. The use of ICT across educational institutions can promote collective, zealous and long-life learning, enhancing students' enthusiasm, provide better convenience to information, enhance shared working resources, generating and deepen comprehension, and help learners reason and express communication creatively (Sartika, 2018). The benefits that ICT offers have prompted many educational institutions to embark on various activities that will facilitate the integration and usage of ICT.…”