Digital literacy of indonesian prospective physics teacher: Challenges beyond the pandemic

Abstract

Pandemic covid-19 reinforces the needs of digital technology in all aspects, including education. Digital literacy skills become essential for all teachers and also prospective teachers. This study aims to find an overview of the digital literacy capabilities of prospective physics teachers. This study was a quantitative descriptive research with data collection using an instrument in a questionnaire that included 29 items from 4 aspects of digital literacy: Accessing content, creating content, transliteracy, and evaluating content. The sample consisted of 171 physics education students from 3 State Universities in Indonesia. The result showed the level of digital literacy in the moderate category. From the four aspects, creating content related to creating or presenting information on various digital platforms showed lower results than accessing content, transliteracy, and evaluating content. In a prospective science teacher curriculum, creating learning content on digital platforms needs to be developed. This research finding suggests that digital literacy needs to be enhanced during the prospective science teachers’ program.