THE IMPACTS OF TECHNOLOGY ON STUDENTS SKILLS (PART 1)
According to Hadiyanto (et al., 2017), skills needed for students in the 21st century include hard skills and soft skills. Hard skills are the technical expertise and knowledge needed for a job. It also refers to subject content, ideas, facts, core concepts, and values that can be practiced and applied in the real world. Technology helps improve students’ learning performance as well as hard skills (Lai et al., 2016) when it engages students in applying their learning knowledge and conducting higher-order thinking, rather than receiving direct teaching instruction (Davies et al., 2013).
On the other hand, the soft skills are very important in job seeking process and for effective sustainability of young graduates in the today’s toughest competition of the corporate (Patil, 2017). A study by Robles (2012), soft skills are interpersonal qualities include communication, flexibility, integrity, positive attitude, responsibility, teamwork, and work ethic.
Communication Skill
Students with good communication skill could handle the difficulty communication situation at school and workplace (Bhargava, S. 2019). Recently, some authors suggest some models which encourage the use of technology to maintain effective interactions with teachers, and among students such as the flipped classroom (Cole and Kritzer, 2009; Slezak, 2014; Divyashree, M, 2018; Bhingare, N. H., & Dhamale, S. K. 2019). Thus undoubtedly that this model provides an opportunity for students to view, listen to, or read materials outside the classroom, hence, within the classroom period they already know what they need to discuss (Afrilyasanti et al., 2016).
Etiquette.
Etiquette is a set of rules that regulate the behaviors in proper ways. In the era of technology, young adults considered inappropriate situations for cellphone usage during class, in a library because texting generates distraction (Williams et al., 2011). Thus “School should ban cellphone?”. If yes, think about the Principle of Epidemics in which a large number of people in a small number of situations start behaving differently, the behavior begins to spread to others (Franklin, 2011) and the whole class just watches entertainment videos on Youtube instead of listening to the teachers.
Flexibility
Flexibility is a key competency necessary for adapting to new learning environments, transferring knowledge to new situations, understanding, and solving unfamiliar problems (Spiro et al., 2007). In recent studies, flexibility is integrated with technology and includes three main factors such as technology acceptance, open-mindedness, and adapting to new situations (Barak, 2016).
Integrity
Deepika (2018) assumed integrity as behavior consistent with shared values, different from morals, and could be an alternative in determining the quality of individuals in interaction with society. This is especially important in education to encourage students to develop academic honesty and believe in themselves. Keohane (1999) defines academic integrity as a commitment to five fundamental values such as honesty, trust, fairness, respect, and responsibility. Recently, maintaining integrity in education becomes more difficult because the Internet, especially Google Chrome creates a rise in cut and paste plagiarism which taking someone else’s work or ideas and passing them off as one’s own (Sangrulkar, S., 2019).
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