Digital literacy enhancement in new normal era: Teachers' voice of sustainable professional development

Abstract

Digital literacy became one skill that teachers developed during the Covid-19 pandemic. This skill is essential for teachers to be better ready in actualizing 21st-century learning in classroom practices. Therefore, this study aims to describe the teachers’ views and practices on digital literacy, and how the teachers’ digital literacy sustainably developed in the new normal era. This survey study collected the data through questionnaires to 53 junior high school teachers. This study found teachers’ agreement on the importance of digital literacy in online teaching. The online practices give teachers meaningful experiences in digital literacy. It also provided the teachers’ need for digital literacy enhancement, however only 35.8% of them have planned programs to answer their needs. The result conveys teachers’ inability to prove sustainability on digital literacy development. The implication is for policymakers to design the teacher's digital literacy development.