Early Childhood Education Teacher's Readiness of Computer Literacy for Facing The 4.0 Industrial Revolution

Abstract

Facing the 4.0 Industrial Revolution in education is done by preparing human resources that have critical thinking skills and problem solvers, communication and collaborative skills, creativity and innovative thinking, and literacy of Information and communication technology. This research aims to know the extent of teachers at ECE in the of computer literacy based on their duties and responsibilities as educators in the learning process. This research is using the mixing method (quantitative and qualitative) approach with data collection instruments in the form of questionnaires and interviews. Analysis of the data used is a descriptive analysis deduction, namely analyzing and providing an interpretation of the collected data than needed studies. The subject of this study involved 58 professional certified teachers and had participated in training on ICT topics. The results showed that the level of readiness of teachers in the computer literacy on the readiness of supporting factors is to have a laptop and the basic skills of the applications in the form of MS office (words, PPT, Excel) and search engines only to support they working in organizing the learning administration. The teacher should be mastering of ICT as part of computer literacy including research activities, organizing, evaluating, communicating information, and understanding the rules of use of information and communication technology.

Prototype e-Report PAUD 1.0 untuk Menyusun Laporan Perkembangan Anak Usia Dini

“…Berdasarkan hasil penelitian sebelumnya, disebutkan aplikasi Ms. Office merupakan aplikasi yang paling banyak dikuasai oleh pendidik PAUD sebagai bentuk kesiapan guru PAUD dalam literasi komputer (Pramudyani et al, 2019a). Hal tersebut berbeda dengan kondisi yang terjadi di berbagai negara lain dalam hal kesiapan guru dalam menggunakan teknologi komputer, seperti termasuk studi kasus di Malaysia dan Afrika Selatan (Du Plessis & Webb, 2012;Kumar et al, 2008).…”

“…Aplikasi ini dikembangkan untuk menjawab berbagai keluhan dan kesulitan yang selama ini mereka alami dalam melakukan penilaian dan menyusun laporan perkembangan anak, seperti yang dihasilkan dalam penelitian sebelumnya dengan menggunakan microsoft word. Pada dasarnya memang kesiapan mereka dalam penggunaan komputer masih sangat terbatas pada operasi sederhana yang ada di aplikasi microsoft office (Pramudyani et al, 2019b). Dalam berbagai keperluan, kebermanfaatan dan kemudahan penggunaan suatu aplikasi digital menjadi perhatian yang penting bukan hanya dalam hal layanan pendidikan tetapi juga dalam hal perdagangan (Latipaturachmaniah & Rahayu, 2021;Nofita, 2021;Pillai et al, 2021;Robaniyah & Kurnianingsih, 2021;Salsabila et al, 2021;Saripudin & Faihaputri, 2021;Sibuea et al, 2021).…”