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.