REFLECTIONS- PBL (SMART
SCHOOLS IN MALAYSIA)
The
Malaysian Smart School initiative is one of the seven flagship applications
that are parts of Malaysia Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) project. The aims of
Smart School project is to transform educational system away from memory-based
learning or exam-oriented learning into education that stimulate higher order
thinking skills and active participation of students in the classroom with the
help of advanced information technology. Integration of ICT in learning
process brought about various benefits to the students as they prepare
themselves to fulfill the Vision of 2020.
In my opinion, Smart School projects were very
excellent efforts to produce individuals who are intellectually, spiritually,
emotionally, and physically balanced as well as harmonious. However, technology-supported Smart School provides
a variety of challenges such as heavy investment in facilities which needed
high costs to provide infrastructure and maintenance of electronic facilities.
One of the challenges that I interested to highlight
here is Smart School hardware, software and hardware was found to be under-utilized.
This problem occurs because teachers lack of ICT knowledge, prefer traditional
way of teaching and simply because they think using courseware is a waste of
time. Without the thinking of moving forwards to face advanced world of
technology and not brave enough to change, we will be left behind 20 years from
neighboring countries such as Singapore and Thailand. As a teacher that will
lead and guide the students, we first need to change the attitude and thinking in
order to achieve all the goals and mission that was established.
Furthermore, greater efforts need to be done in
designing and developing interactive and more user-friendly courseware to
accommodate students with different needs and learning abilities. Teacher need
intensive training and experiences to used technology in teaching process more
effectively.
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