Improving Students’ Digital Literacy in a Suburban Elementary School: An Action Research Study within a Community Service Program
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Literasi digital penelitian berbasis tindakan pembelajaran partisipatif sekolah dasar program pelayanan masyarakat

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Subiyakto, A., Haris, S., & Rahma, A. (2026). Improving Students’ Digital Literacy in a Suburban Elementary School: An Action Research Study within a Community Service Program. Journal of Hypermedia & Technology-Enhanced Learning, 4(1), 30–48. https://doi.org/10.58536/j-hytel.203
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Meningkatnya integrasi teknologi digital dalam pendidikan dasar menghadirkan peluang sekaligus risiko bagi perkembangan kognitif, sosial, dan perilaku siswa. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengkaji status literasi digital siswa sekolah dasar dalam hal keterlibatan, pemahaman, perilaku, kesadaran digital, dan refleksi, serta untuk meningkatkan dimensi-dimensi tersebut melalui intervensi seminar berbasis kelas yang dilaksanakan sebagai penelitian tindakan dalam program pengabdian masyarakat. Penelitian ini melibatkan 18 siswa kelas enam dari sebuah sekolah dasar di pinggiran kota di Provinsi Banten, Indonesia. Pendekatan pendidikan dan partisipatif diterapkan, yang menggabungkan penyajian materi terstruktur, diskusi interaktif, kegiatan praktis terpandu, media visual, dan kuis formatif. Temuan menunjukkan bahwa intervensi berbasis seminar berkontribusi pada peningkatan yang terukur dalam keterlibatan digital, pemahaman, perilaku, dan kesadaran digital siswa. Namun, pengembangan refleksi kritis memerlukan siklus pembelajaran berbasis tindakan yang berulang. Hasil ini memberikan dukungan empiris terhadap intervensi partisipatif di kelas sebagai strategi yang layak untuk memperkuat literasi digital sebagai kompetensi dasar di tingkat sekolah dasar.

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Aang Subiyakto: Supervision, Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – Review & Editing. Sulaiman Haris: Investigation, Data curation, Writing – Original Draft. Anisya Rahma: Investigation, Visualization, Writing – Original Draft. All authors have read and approved the final version of this manuscript.

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