SMART SCHOOL

CHALLENGES

Heavy investment on facilitiesGovernment need to spend a lot for electronic

facilities and new books.

The cost and maintenance fees for the facilities are high.

Effective implementation of Smart Schools will require:

funding for the building of new schools with its entire multimedia infrastructure

upgrading facilities in existing schools

teacher training institutions

maintenance of new technology

Lack of democratization in education

Students have no choice on what to learn and when to sit for exam.

They don’t have enough time to study and understand the lesson as they have different ability to learn.

Lack of manpower in handling the technical problem

Insufficient technicians.

Lack of technological infrastructure and teaching materials in school in rural area

Limited internet connection

Limitation of infrastructure, such as computer labs lead to ineffectiveness of technology supported teaching and learning.

Shortage of computers.

Smart school hardware, software and courseware was found to be under-utilizedSome teachers are not keen on using the

courseware

lack of ICT knowledge

not comfortable with the use of hardware and courseware.

prefer traditional way of teaching which is chalk and talk

a waste of time.

The design of the courseware does not accommodate for students’ with differing needs and learning abilities.

Courseware lacks proper guidelines to use.

Software used in school and MOE is causing problem:

to key in data

cannot be used by school’s computer

the processor takes a longer time and slow.

the hardware is out of date

lack of knowledge can cause damage to computer

Lack of trainingsSome teachers cannot teach effectively.

New teachers lack intensive training.

Experienced teachers lack of ICT knowledge.

Time constraintStudents felt that learning using computer is very time consuming.

Teachers have to prepare earlier if they want to use the computer lab for teaching and it will disturb the process of teaching and learning.

Parents

Students nowadays are passive.

They hope every material is provided by their teacher.

Students

Parents are not involved in this project.

Busy with their work so that they can upgrade their life and provide the better environment to their children.

Don’t disturb me !!!

Negative attitude of teachersA teacher (especially senior teachers) has

been blended with traditional methods and difficult to adapt new instructional technology.

Staff development program (courses)

Did not involve every staff.

SMART SCHOOL

PROGRESS

General academic performance

Academic performance of Malaysian students improved across all national examinations in 2009 in core subjects – Language, Mathematics and Science

Primary School scores increased by 11.4%, Lower Secondary scores by 6.4% and Malaysian Certificate of Education (SPM) scores by 3.4%

Smart School Qualification Standards (SSQS)

a monitoring tool to measure the use of ICT in schools

schools are given Star Ranking each year based on their performance in four areas:

use of ICT

competency of end-users (students, teachers, administrators)

adoption of applications provided by MOE (modules and courseware)

IT infrastructure

As of October 2009, MOE has awarded ‘Smart School’ rating to 7575 schools. This means they have achieved at least 3 stars

Dr Norrizan Razali, Senior Manager, Smart School Department, MDec explains the Star Rankings: “A three-star school has adopted technology. Its teachers ‘plug and play’ content or electronic courseware provided by MOE. It merely adopts ICT with little or no enhancement or customization of the material to suit its needs”.

Of the 7575 Smart Schools, 67% are at 3-star ranking, 32% at 4-star and 1% at 5-star

Smart School Qualification Standards (SSQS)

Smart School Qualification Standards (SSQS)

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