The impact of Google Classroom to increase students’ information literacy

Abstract

Information literacy at the higher education level is very important because it tends to be problematic in fostering students' critical thinking skills, including awareness, collection, understanding, analysis, synthesis, and the use of information and their attitudes to the treatment of information at the university level. This study examined the effects of the online learning Google Classroom in enhancing information literacy among students. This study observed a one-group pretest-posttest experimental design. This research involved 65 students from the Chemistry Course under the Biochemistry Program. The instrument used to assess students’ information literacy consist of fair set of multiple-choice questions. The test was found to be very valid at 4.22% and highly reliable at an alpha level of 0.86. The findings of this research showed that the information literacy of students improved before and after their learning exposure using Google Classroom based on the descriptive and inferential statistics. Moreover, the students' attitude towards the online platform shows that they are more willing to learn using Google Classroom than the non-online or conventional learning platforms. Therefore, applying Google Classroom in online learning is effectively boost students’ information literacy.

Improving Students' Critical Thinking Skills: Is Interactive Video and Interactive Web Module Beneficial?

“…Critical thinking has become one of the tools used in everyday life to solve a problem because it involves the ability to reason, interpret, and the ability to evaluate information to allow making a valid and trusted decision [7][8] [9]. Critical thinking processes can also train students to draw conclusions and synthesize information [10] [11] [12].…”

“…Students are still expected to memorize formulas and answer questions correctly in chemistry class without being encouraged to think critically and creatively [15]. Learning media is less effective, and understanding leads to memorization [11]. Students are less motivated to develop their thinking skills using conventional media [10].…”

Using Android-Based E-Module to Improve Students’ Digital Literacy on Chemical Bonding

“…One of the characteristics of digital literacy possessed by students is mastery of digital technology devices [51]. Digital literacy becomes better if it can be developed in real-life situations, especially in solving problems, including student assignments [85]. Digital literacy competence is essential because: a) emphasis on raising awareness of thinking in critically evaluating information; b) emphasis on improving the ability to create digital information; c) emphasis the mastery of other skills in the form of computers, the internet, text, media, visual, audio, or the web presented through digital technology devices [41] [42].…”

“…The reason is that in the field of media literacy, it was revealed that teachers rarely use Information and Technology-based learning media, such as android-based e-modules [58][66] [75][89] [90]; this happens due to the lack of facilities and infrastructure available in learning media, and the lack of understanding and skills of teachers in designing android-based e-learning learning media. In the field of information literacy, the ability of teachers and school and campus library staff is currently inadequate [21] [85]. In addition, the lack of quality teacher-student interaction in the learning process [12].…”

“…The study [51] shows that students are less interested in learning chemistry because they find it difficult to understand chemistry concepts and materials. Chemistry learning will be more exciting and easy to understand if there are teaching innovations using digital technology in its implementation [85].…”