Technology Mediated Literacy Education To Local Wisdom In English Language Teaching

Abstract

Indonesia education system has prioritized national character building to be the core of human resource development along with developing national competitive competence to enter a global living. This strategy is important for Indonesia to face the golden age in 2045 indicated by having a golden generation of competitive and high quality human resources. For this purpose, literacy teaching-learning is considered as an essential component of education process. However, literacy education has often been assumed simply as reading and writing both spoken and written texts

monotonously and learning activities fail to lead students’ understanding on their living philosophy.

Consequently, the students seem insensitive to their natural, social, and local environments by means of wisdom. Lack of learning experience, for instance, may cause this situation. Although they look good in using technology devices, they may seem empty in understanding their

living, future orientation, and goals. This paper presents how cultural and local wisdom should be referred to as learning resources in building students’ characters by means of developing their literacy skills of English competence. As technology development is concerned, this paper also discusses the management of teaching and learning by organizing such local wisdom oriented materials of English into relevant technology based media (ICT Media) of interesting audio and visual presentations.