Literacy is very important in human life since by being literate, people will be able to gain information. This paper discusses about the changing of old literacy to a new literacy. This changing brings effects to many aspects of life including in education. This paper shows how a new literacy which is known by ICT (information and communication technology) can develop student's character. This new ICT has positive and negative effects. The counters only focus on explaining the positive effect of technology that is to build and improve the trustworthy, respect, diligence, responsibility, and courage. Building good student's character can create good future leadership. Because of that student's should be equipped with the ability of code-breaking, making-meaning, text-using, and text-analyzing. At the end, all parties (government, teachers, parents, etc) have to collaborate to use ICT in order to improve the quality of our education. Keywords: New Literacy, Technology, Student's Character AbstrakLiterasi sangat penting dalam kehidupan manusia karena dengan menjadi melek, orang akan dapat memperoleh informasi. Makalah ini membahas tentang perubahan literasi lama ke literasi baru. Perubahan ini membawa efek ke banyak aspek kehidupan termasuk dalam bidang pendidikan. Makalah ini menunjukkan bagaimana literasi baru yang dikenal dengan ICT (teknologi informasi dan komunikasi) dapat mengembangkan karakter siswa. ICT baru ini akan memiliki efek positif dan negatif. Kami hanya fokus pada menjelaskan efek positif dari teknologi itu adalah untuk membangun dan meningkatkan kepercayaan, menghormati, ketekunan, tanggung jawab, dan keberanian. Membangun karakter siswa yang baik dapat menciptakan pemimpin masa depan yang baik. Sehubungan dengan itu siswa harus dilengkapi dengan kemampuan pemecahan kode, memaknai hasil, menggunakan teks, dan analisis teks. Pada akhirnya, semua pihak (pemerintah, guru, orang tua, dan lain-lain) harus berkolaborasi untuk menggunakan ICT dalam rangka meningkatkan kualitas pendidikan kita.

<p>This research is done by the researcher to investigate kinds of ICT used by English lecturers for non-English Study Program students at IAIN Curup and to investigate the roles of ICT for the English lecturer at IAIN Curup. This research used descriptive quantitative Because the questioner's results were evaluated and explained in the explanatory form.The questionnaire used as the instrument to collect the data. Questionnaire about the ICT used by the English lecturers for non-English Study Program students at IAIN Curup and the role of ICT for English Lecturer. Five processes is used to analyze the data from questionnaires in this research. They are (1) data managing of research result, (2) reading/memoing of result, (3) description of result; (4) classifying of research result and (5) interpreting of research result. The result showed that the lecturers always used three types of ICR in teaching English in the classroom, they were the speaker, educational games, and website resources. The reason for them using three types of ICT because it was easy to use and cheap. In using the ICT, the lecturers have a different opinion about About ICT's role in promoting its learning operations. The use of ICT in the teaching and learning system had 7 (seven) roles. It is about the role of ICT in motivating, attracting, and enhancing the success of learners in studying English.</p>

Conversation is one of the activities that students do in their lives. Conversation is in relation to the maxim and implicature. Without realizing, the students usually violate and obey the maxim. Thereby, this study aims at knowing the types of maxim and implicature.The study used qualitative design. This study used transcription of the students’ conversation. Besides, this study used coding analysis. The findings of this study showed that most of the students obeyed the maxims of quality, quantity, manner and relevance, however, some students still disobeyed the maxims. Furthermore, there were two types of implicature that the students did in conversation namely conventional and conversational implicature. Therefore, by knowing the maxim and the implicature, the students can know the role in the conversation.

This study was aimed to know the e-learning training implementation which involved the lecturers’ perspective, the barriers and its solution. This study involved 50 postgraduate lecturers, however only 9 Master of English education lecturers who participated in this training. The research design of this study was qualitative research which applied observation checklist, interview and note taking as the instruments to collect the data. The data analysis of this study used qualitatively which comprise several steps, such as collect the data, think about the data, code the data, did reflection on data, organizing the data, and interpreting the data. The findings showed that the implementation of e-learning has been done by the trainer, however, there were problems that occurred during the implementation of this training, such as discipline of time, the understanding of the material, electricity, internet connection, module and the age. These problems had been solved by the trainer. The trainer provided the assistant to help them in handling this training. Another finding was most the lecturers had positive perspective about e-learning training because this e-learning training could assist them in teaching, but there were still two until four participants who gave negative perspective about the training.

The aims of this study are to find out (1) ICT (Information and Communications Technology) platform used by male and female students from Islamic universities in Indonesia, (2) their perception of using ICT, and (3) their barriers to using ICT in English language learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. The data was collected from an online questionnaire (Google Form) from students majoring in English from seven Islamic universities in Indonesia. There were 30 male students and 30 female students from every university who participated in this research, making a total of 210 student respondents. The data were analyzed quantitatively by using the SPSS computer program. First of all, female students used more various types of ICT platforms compared to male students. Second, the female students viewed ICT use more positively than male students in language learning. And lastly, even though the females deemed ICT more optimistically compared to male students, nevertheless the females encountered more barriers in using the ICT platforms compared to the male students in this study. Again, even though male students were more skillful in ICT literacy than female students, female students constructively regarded ICT use in language learning as more beneficial to them in terms of skill, knowledge, and motivational improvement.

The basis of character education in Keywords: Characters Education, Islamic Education, Radicalsm A. PendahuluanPendidikan di Indonesia hingga sekarang masih menyisakan banyak persoalan, baik dari segi kurikulum, manajemen, maupun para pelaku dan pengguna pendidikan. sumber daya manusia Indonesia masih belum mencerminkan cita-cita pendidikan yang diharapkan. Masih banyak ditemukan kasus-kasus seperti siswa melakukan kecurangan ketika sedang menghadapi ujian, bersikap malas dan senang bermain dan hura-hura, senang tawuran antar sesama siswa, melakukan pergaulan bebas, hingga terlibat narkoba dan tindak kriminal lainnya. Di sisi lain, masih ditemukan pula guru yang melakukan kecurangan-kecurangan dalam sertifikasi dan dalam penyelenggaraan Ujian Nasional (UN).

The objective of this research is aimed to know what are the most strategies and classroom management which are used by Preservice English Teacher at STAIN Curup in the academic year 2016/2017. The total of English Teacher was 7 teachers which as cooperating teacher of 17 preservice English Teacher. The types of english teaching strategies used by preservive English teacher were: (1) Task-Based Language Learning (100%) and (2) Cooperative Learning (100%); (3) Grapic Organizers (29%); (4) Technology (5.8%); (5) Roleplay (5.8%); (6) Storytelling (11.7%); (7) Vocabulary Building (11.7%); (8) Summarizing and Notetaking (5.8%); and (9) Analysis of Student Work (5.8%). The most strategies used by preservice english teacher (>50%) were Task-Based Language Learning and Cooperative Learning (100%). The types of classroom management used by preservive English teacher were: (1) Maintaning Discipline (58.5%), (2) giving feedback (100%), and classroom interaction (17.6%). The most classroom management used by preservice english teacher (>50%) were giving feedback and maintaning discipline.

In teaching writing, media is an essential aspect This research discovers students’ perception on weblogs as an educational tool in writing class in order to improving students’ writing skill. This quantitative research discussed 30 English Foreign Language (EFL) students. In obtaining the data, the thirty students of 8th semester at English Study Program of IAIN Curup were given a set of questionnaire to get students’ response on weblogs. After obtaining the data, the researcher analyzes the students response by counting its frequency and percentage. The findings of this research Indicated that the majority of students have positive perception on weblogs based on five indicators that is provided by researcher, those are: students confidence to write, writing skill improvement, Information and Communication Technology experience and knowledge, critical thinking promotion and accessible aspect. This research revealed that students give positive response to the use of weblogs as a medium in writing class. Furthermore, students also prefer to do their assignment on blog rather than write conventionally on paper. Findings of this research also advise the English teacher and lecturer to consider weblogs as medium and learning tool in school and university since it can encourage students’ writing achievement. The researcher also provide conclusion in this article.