摘要：The 21th Century is inseparable with the thing so-called ‘digital technology’. Students are now definitely dependent to some internet platforms, such as yahoo or google, while trying to solve their learning queries, yet they do not thoroughly analyze the source, and it is so often that the papers of those students are merely the copies of the ones available online. In this digital era, a student ought to possess the skill to find the right information. Teachers should take their roles in order to optimize this kind of skill in their students. This research observed the application of a strategy namely 5R which is said to be complementary to the learning characteristic of the students of 21th century. The purpose of this study was to observe the effectivity of 5R (Research-based method, Relevance, Rational, Relaxed and Rapport) in affecting the skills of nowadays students. The effectivity was observed through student’slevel of creativity, critical thinking, communication and collaboration. This research was conducted by using ‘control group posttest only’ design, with the senior PGSD student of UniversitasMuhammadiyah Cirebon, who were taking the course namely ‘the innovation in education’, as the research subject. In order to find the effectivity level of 5R (Research-based method, Relevance, Rational, Relaxed and Rapport), the researcher conducted homogeneity test and t test. The mean value of the control group was 3.60 and the mean value of the experiment group was 3.86. This result indicated that there was a difference in these mean values. Through the t test, the researcher found that the value of 5R effectivity on the skill to find the right information (in the context of learning activity occurred in the course of ‘innovation in education’) was 0.032. This value is smaller than 0.05, meaning that the application of 5R could be deemed influential to the enhancement of student’s skill in finding the right information online.
