Students' Perceptions of Civic Engagement in ICT Skills-Based Citizenship Education Learning

Abstract

The era of the 21^st century today brings very rapid changes and has a significant impact on all aspects, including in the world of education, especially learning activity. The components and skills existing in the 21^st century comprise critical thinking and problem solving, creativity and innovation, communication and collaboration, and ICT (Information and Communication Technology) skills.  The goal of this research is to conceptually describe an overview of 21st century skills-based Civics learning using an ICT model to develop students' digital literacy skills in shaping aspects and civic competencies required in society, in this case student civic engagement. In addition, the purpose of this study is to see students' perceptions of ICT-based civic education learning skills. The method used is descriptive qualitative by conducting analyses and interpretations through literature studies, with the consideration that civics education is a compulsory subject which is taught in all schools and departments in Higher Education. Students' perceptions of Civics learning on the ICT skill variable show that most of them are in good category with a total of 61%. very good category by 22%, moderate category by 12%. Furthermore, the less category is 3%, the very less category is 2%.Therefore, it is necessary to include ICT skills in the design of the Civic Education learning model.