Using Digital Newspaper as Creative Learning Media to Boost Students’ Higher Thinking Skills

Helda Jolanda Pentury,Anastasia Dewi Anggraeni

doi:10.30998/deiksis.v13i2.6902

Abstract

Through creative pedagogical application currently, the concepts of pedagogical strategy which are more technologically oriented than they used to be, transform education into a way where creative and innovative students’ perspectives and motivation are nurtured. Digital Newspaper concept of alignment, which expresses from social science and humanity has been developed useful in creating innovative and skillful academic environments, as it apply to integrate learning with cognitive, kinesthetic, technological, and social-culture aspects learning form. The research conducted by observing students' projects and reveals the way they identify, classify, analyze and create creative learning from the topics of Jakarta Post online content as a learning media. The result of this study shows that using this media which has various current materials can increase students’ higher thinking critically, creatively and innovatively in English language learning. We recommend that in future research, researchers use more online newspaper which is more engaging with the real-world and give positive impact to boost students’ high order thinking skills to solve the problem, to analyze, and to make decisions in their English language performances. Keywords: Creative Media, Language Skills, Thinking Skills

Highlights

Learning is no longer a matter of acquiring knowledge, but rather an acquisition of strategy of sorting and analyzing knowledge relevant and useful to one’s life purposes
The approach to the learning process is essentially a teaching-learning process that emphasizes the importance of learning through the experiential process to gain experience
By providing students with practical digital media and high thinking activities to provide high thinking skills development, students can boost their critical thinking, do creative projects and improve their language as well. These innovatory actions are the substance of high thinking learning

Summary

INTRODUCTION

Learning is no longer a matter of acquiring knowledge, but rather an acquisition of strategy of sorting and analyzing knowledge relevant and useful to one’s life purposes. They state that media are anything that carries information between a source and a receiver It means that in teaching and learning process, teachers can explain the materials using the learning media in a more concrete way (Anggraeni & Jolanda, 2018). By providing students with practical digital media and high thinking activities to provide high thinking skills development, students can boost their critical thinking, do creative projects and improve their language as well. These innovatory actions are the substance of high thinking learning. It is encouraging that using different way of teaching through digital newspaper as teaching context, language learning is innovative and creative way to engage with global issues as the critical and analytical materials

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CONCLUSION