Natural Science Learning
Based on Technology For
Students to Prepare For 4.0-Era Education
Siwi Purwanti
Primary School Teacher Education Study Program
Universitas Ahmad Dahlan
Yogyakarta, Indonesia
siwi.purwanti@pgsd.uad.ac.id
Abstract—
College Students of Primary School Teacher
Education, Ahmad Dahlan University are the younger
generation who will contribute in building civilization in
education, especially after they graduate and apply knowledge
in the elementary school world. For this reason, lecturers need
to provide knowledge in accordance with the educational
development in the 4.0 era. The education world that will enter
the industrial era 4.0 means that lecturers must prepare college
students to be more literate in technology, so that later when
they go to the school world they can teach with good
technology. The way the lecturers prepare students is by doing
the SETS (science, environment, technology, and society)
approach in learning, natural science learning with online
modules, doing IT training for college students, and WhatsApp
online classes.
Keywords—
natural science learning, technology, era 4.0
I.
I
NTRODUCTION
Education is an important thing in human life. Education
is the main foundation in managing, printing, and improving
high-quality human resources [1]. One of the education form
that can be taken is through university courses. Ahmad
Dahlan University, especially the Primary School Teacher
Education Study Program has a Natural Science course. The
Natural Science course is very important because there are
many things that can be learned about everyday life and the
surrounding environment.
Natural Science has three dimensions, which are
processes, scientific attitudes, and products. The processes in
Natural Science
can be done through learning, as well as
observations and research in natural environment. Science
process skill have been described as mental and physical
abilities and competencies which serve as tool needed for the
effective study of science and technology as well as problem-
solving, individual and societal development [2]. The
scientific attitudes of Natural Science are curiosity, an open
attitude towards new discoveries, and experimentation. One
of the products of Natural Science is technology, therefore
Natural Science is closely related to technology. Especially
now in the 21st century where
technology is developing
fastly. Lecturers and college-students must be mastering the
technology so as not be outdated. The present tertiary
students aged between 18 to 23 years old and they belong to
the Generation -Z (Gen Z) who are so revolutionized by
technology. The learning preference of the Gen Z students is
different students from the previous generation as they are
more hands-on and directly involved in the learning process.
[3].
People call the Nowadays Technology development era
as the 4.0 era or industrial revolution. Industrial Revolution
emerged many improvements in manufacturing and service
systems. Because of remarkable and rapid changes appeared
in manufacturing
and information technology, synergy
aroused from the integration of the advancements in
information technology, services and manufacturing were
realized 4]. The academics, such
as lecturers and college-
students must understand it well, even following the 4.0 era.
The educational challenge in the industrial revolution 4.0 era
are changes in students’ way of learning, thinking patterns,
and ways of acting in developing creative innovations in
various fields. The future of education is more important to
know why you need something, built around each individual,
their personal choice of where and how to learn, and tracking
of performance through data-based customization,and
learning together and from each other – peer to peer learning
will dominate, teachers more as facilitators, of communities
built around shared learning and aspiration [5]. For this
reason, it is important to prepare
the college-students to
become an important part of 4.0 era. There are several ways
that lecturers can do in preparing college-students to face 4.0
era, including learning SETS (science, environment,
technology, and society) approach in learning, science
learning with online modules, doing IT training for college-
students, and WhatsApp online classes.
II. M
ETHOD
The method used in this paper was literature review, by
carried out theoretical studies on the relevant research,
journals, and books. This research started from studying
Natural Science learning, technology, 4.0 era, STE approach
in science learning, and online modules. Then formulated a
concept on how to prepare students to face 4.0 era. Data
analysis techniques were carried out by evaluating and
reflecting on the results of theoretical
studies and relevant
research.
III. D
ISCUSSION