Developing a Digital Literacy-Based Teaching Model for Introduction to Educational Management

The rapid development of science and technology requires teachers to develop their competencies continuously. Innovation is the ultimate key in industry 4.0 that requires teachers to form learners to have the twenty-first century skills and competencies, who are able to think critically, creatively, collaboratively, and communicatively. To teach Introduction to Educational Management course in one learning process needs one digital literacy-based teaching model that is taught synergistically and systematically. The main purpose of digital literacy use in teaching and learning is to construct comprehension, writing skills, and communication skills holistically. These three things will result in character and higher order thinking skills developments. The learning content is what is being taught, as for digital literacy, it is how to teach the content itself. The result of the study showed that the digital literacy-based teaching model for Introduction to Educational Management had fulfilled the elements of validity, practicality, and effectiveness. The validity score according to three experts was 3.4, which is categorized as valid. The average score of practicality based on students’ and lecturers’ responses was 86, which is categorized as very practical. Meanwhile, the score of effectiveness of the teaching model based on the analysis of pretest and posttest results was 84.5, which is categorized as very effective.