MEDIA LITERACY AND INFORMATION COMPETENCE OF AISYIYAH EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION TEACHERS IN BANDUNG TOWARDS THE GLOBAL ERA

Abstract

The main purpose of this study is to describe knowledge and skill about media literacy and information of Aisyiyah Early Childhood Education teachers. The main issue of this study is the importance of availability of early childhood education teachers who have competence in media literacy and information. Considering the rapid growth of communication information technology that drives the growth of new mass media and social media that can give contra productive influence to the society especially children. The content of mass media and social media that have been produced irresponsibly ought to propel the society to become aware of the damage it can cause. The closest society for children is their teacher. Teachers in global era are demanded to be more competent in mastering mass media to optimize the function of their profession to guide the children on being wary in using new mass media and social media. Concept of this study refers to media literacy Empowering8. According to this model, information literacy contains skills to: 1) identify the topic/subject, targeted audience, relevant form, source type. 2) Explore relevant source and information for the topic. 3) Select and record relevant information and collect suitable quotes. 4) Represent, spread, and deliver the outcome of the information. This research uses descriptive quantitative method. The purpose is to describe media literacy and information competence of Aisyiah Early Childhood Education teachers in Bandung with total of 89 teachers. The result of data analyst is quite unexpected because almost all dimension of media literacy have high level of median. Therefore, further research that uses unobtrusive method is needed in order to strengthen the previous result of research that used self-report method.