SMART SCHOOL CHALLENGES IN MALAYSIA

NURUL WAHIDA BT ABU AHMAD

D20091035134

LECTURER’S NAME : EN. AZMI IBRAHIM

INTRODUCTION

Smart School

• 1996 – Ministry of Education Malaysia has enacted the Smart School concept

• One of the ‘flagship in Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC)

• 1999 – 90 schools (Boarding school and daily school) have been selected to implement it

• Help students try to achive its full potential in the most suitable way rates and different learning style by using computer technology.

• Help students meet the challenge of the Information Age.

OBJECTIVES

Manage efficiently and effectively the resources

and processess required supporting the teaching-

learning functions.

Students, teachers, administrators and parents are

better prepared for the challenges of the

Information Age.

Malaysia’s National Philosophy

Developing the potential of individuals in holistic

and integrated manner.• To produce individuals who are intellectually,

spiritually, emotionally and physically balanced and harmonic, based on a firm belief in and devotion to God..

• To produce a thinking and technology-literate workforce

• To provide opportunities to enhance individual strengh and abilities.

3 Core Vision

Pointed by Prime Minister of Malaysia Tun Dr.

Mahathir Mohamad during Launching the MSC on

1st August 1996.1. Teachers will need to change their role in the

electronic classroom from being information providers to counselors

2. Success in the Information Age to create a curriculum where people learn how to learn.

3. To facilitate a wider adoption of ICT to boost capabilities in every field including education.

SMART SCHOOL COMPONENTS

CHALLENGES IN SMART SCHOOL

Teaching and

Learning Materials

Technology

Infrastructure

IT Coordinato

rs (ITC)

IT Facilities

Awareness of Society

Teaching And Learning Mater ia ls

Teachers use computer laboratory for teaching only four

times per month

Technology tool in teaching and learning can waste time.

A score of 2.7 is given by students who were not very

satisfied with the performance of computers provided in

school

62.4 percent of students said that their teachers had used

computer to teach lessons during the class

Technology Infrastructure

Computer Lab is a project initiated by MoE in year

2000, which aims to provide students additional

access to personal computer (PC) during or after

school hours.

The allocation of PCs in schools is proportionate to

the number of students, such that 13 PCs are

allocated to schools with between 100 and 399

students, 21 PCs to schools with between 400 and

799 students, and 42 PCs to schools with 800 or

more students.

It Coordinators (ITC)

Responsible for supporting who will responsible for

supporting teachers in the overall deployment of

multimedia and other technologies.

Lack of training provided.

Around 90 percent of ITCs learnt their ICT

knowledge on the job and substantial 54.5 percent

attented private training centers for courses.

IT Facilities

80 percent of respondents in some research felt

that the ICT facilities were not satisfactory.

Hardware and software failure were commonly

cited as was the reliability of Internet access.

Power shortage was a problem as well, but largely

in rural areas

Awareness of Society

They feel smart school are same with normal

school

SOLUTIONS

Government

ParentsSchool

Stakeholders

Government

The 1Malaysia Laptop Computer Programme is one

of the plans of government under the National

Broadband Initiative (NBI) with the objective of

enhancing the rate of broadband accessibility.

School Stakeholders

Teachers • Must been trained in the use of information

technology• Encourage students to be independent and proactive

in using ICT facilities

Students• Consequence of thinking, and good thinking is

learnable by all students• Student’s own desire to learn are very important

and play a big role to realize the Smart School objective

Parents

Research has shown that students do better when

their parents are involved.

Parents can play a major role in helping Smart

Schools provide individualized education for

students.

CONCLUSION

Cooperation from all Malaysian whether students,

teachers and parents needed to achieve the objective

of Smart School to produce a knowledge society that

is critical, creative and innovative, to produce

technology savvy individuals for the Information Age

and to cultivate life-long learning based on

Information and Communication in Technology.