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The learning trends of 4.0 have been warmly discussed among all EFL teachers to find out the learning goals, one of them is promoting the students to be creative, collaborative, critical, and communicative as demanded for industrial revolution. However, these goals have not been reached since most of English teachers keep using conventional learning strategies without integrating digital technology. This paper presents a study focusing on Higher Order Thinking Skills in digital storytelling to teach English in EFL context and the constraints faced by the teachers in implementing this learning strategy. A Classroom Action Research was implemented through three instruments, namely classroom observation, interview with students and teacher, and documentation. One class of eight graders and one English teacher were involved as the participants. The results reveal that HOTS in digital storytelling could be used as an innovative learning strategies since the students could explore and develop their digital literacy in their own way. It was gained through analysing and evaluating what they need and creating something as to fulfil their needs as problem solving. From the interview, the teacher stated that they still got lack of knowledge and experience to implement HOTS in digital storytelling because they were not well-literate so that they could not implement this strategy optimally.