This article aims to describe the competencies needed in the 21 st century, especially in facing new challenges in education amid the Covid-19 pandemic, both by teacher and students, and also to describe how the strategies so that teachers in Indonesia are literate towards the development of information and communication technology (ICT). Competencies needed by students in the 21 st century are critical thinking,
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