Entering 21st century skills: teacher and junior high school student’s perspective about science learning media’ scope

Abstract

School systems and educators face challenges to prepare student with 21st Century Skill. Teachers that equipped with innovated teaching models, media and learning tools also play a crucial role in helping students fulfilled 21st century skills. The main purpose of this study is gathering student’s perspective in science learning media. This study is a descriptive research that was done in September – November 2019. The subject of this study are science teacher and Junior High School student (grade 7, 8 and 9) in private Junior High School in Salatiga. The result showed that most student know about learning media. For student, learning media help them to understand the science matter especially for some difficult matter such as classification of living things, human digestive system, and human skeletal and muscular system. Students need learning media as a whole package of science education. Visual and audio visual media are the form of learning media that still used in science learning. Specifically, student expect that multimedia can be used in some science matter.