Literature review: The effect of local wisdom-based digital learning media on elementary school students’ critical thinking skills
Local wisdom-based digital learning media have drawn interest as a strategy to provide context-based learning and foster elementary students’ critical thinking, yet the evidence remains unclear across types of digital media, forms of local wisdom, and learning contexts. This study collated empirical evidence to answer three questions: what types of digital learning media have been used, what forms of local wisdom have been integrated, and how these media have been reported to influence elementary students’ critical thinking. A Systematic Literature Review (SLR) guided by the PRISMA 2020 statement was conducted. Publications from 2020 to 2026 were identified in Google Scholar and Scopus and screened using inclusion and exclusion criteria, resulting in 20 empirical articles that were synthesized narratively. E-modules and interactive multimedia were the most common media, followed by digital comics, e-books, flipbooks, educational games, augmented reality, mobile applications, and others. Local wisdom appeared as cultural ceremonies, performances, cultural heritage, social values, ecological knowledge, production activities, and community contexts. Across studies, local wisdom-based digital media were reported to contribute positively to students’ critical thinking, although the effects varied with media type, instructional strategy, indicators, and assessment procedures, and the evidence was limited by heterogeneous designs and small samples. This review contributes a synthesized overview of how forms of local wisdom are integrated into digital media and how their reported contributions to critical thinking vary across learning contexts.
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