IMPLEMENTATION OF DIGITAL ERA CHARACTER EDUCATION BASED ON EMOTIONALLY QUOTIENT AND SPIRITUAL QUOTIENT AT ATLANTIS PLUS JUNIOR SCHOOL

Abstract

The development of the digital era also contributes to the domination of the role of technology in the lives of students at school, making the implementation of character education increasingly difficult. The emergence of various effect cases due to decreased morality such as cases of violence, brawls, association freedom, life style and many other phenomena of moral decadence are forms of weakening character handling in the world of education so that the patterns and perspectives of students' lives tend to be pragmatic, transactional, hedonistic, materialistic and secularistic which causes the intelligence of the heart to decrease, less interested in spiritual values and tend to follow the style and taste of hedonism. This research was written in order to answer how the roles and functions of educational institutions encourage the implementation of character education in everyday life at schools. Educational institutions are required to reformulate and rearrange effective movements and steps in the framework of implementing character education in schools to respond to the challenges of the times in the digital era in educational institutions starting from elementary and secondary levels, both formal and non-formal. This research was formulated through a qualitative descriptive study approach based on Library Research (literary study). The results of this study indicate that implementing character education based on emotional and spiritual quotient is very important because it has a great impact on emotional calm and increases the enthusiasm for the spiritual life of students while at the same time has a positive effect on increasing the quality of learning that is more fun, creative, inspiring and full of meaning. In addition, students become inspired and motivated to apply Islamic character values in everyday life such as caring, courtesy, and honesty and responsibility where all of these are able to create a very positive climate in everyday life at school where all of that is very influential. towards increasing the morality and mentality of students as a provision for them to face future global competition.