The Importance of Character Education for The Young Generation in The Digital Era

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10.2991/978-2-38476-414-3_18How to use a DOI?

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Character; Education; Young generation; Digital era

Abstract

Education is an effort to improve the quality of human resources who have character and can live independently better. Quality education can form a civilized person so as to create a moral social life. Character education is a process of applying moral and religious values through science, applying these values to oneself, others, and the surrounding environment as well as to God Almighty. The demand for education to produce quality human resources continues to be echoed so that all people have awareness that education is important in this digital era. In this digital era, the use of technology properly makes it the main key in the character values of students. And what becomes a decline in morale, lack of knowledge, even character in students is due to deviations in the use of technology and the internet. This research discusses the importance of character education in building the morale of the young generation in this digital era to become a generation that has good morals. To achieve the objectives of this study, the authors took primary data sources through a search of the literature, then discussed in depth and analyzed using content analysis techniques to produce conclusions. The results of this study indicate that character education has a very important urgency to educate and nurture the younger generation so that they can make good use of technology by choosing which things are good and which are bad from the internet. With awareness of the importance of character education in the digital era, it is hoped that the successors of the Indonesian nation will be better in the future.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yulianto Nur Cahyono
AU  - Aida Hayani
AU  - Muh Mustakim
AU  - An-Nisa Apriani
AU  - Rizal Faturrohman
AU  - Muhammad Gafarurozzi
AU  - Hairiyah Hairiyah
PY  - 2025
DA  - 2025/05/23
TI  - The Importance of Character Education for The Young Generation in The Digital Era
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st Alma Ata International Conference on Education (AAICE 2023)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 205
EP  - 214
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-414-3_18
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-414-3_18
ID  - Cahyono2025
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