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COMPONENT IN SMART SCHOOL
There are several components in smart school such as teaching and learning processes, technology, management and administration, human resources, skills and responsibilities and the policies. The first component is the teaching and learning processes in smart school. The Smart School will enable students to practice self-accessed and self-directed learning. Students can learn their own pace. The processes relating to curriculum, pedagogy, assessments, and teaching learning materials, are reinvented to help students learn more effectively and efficiently. This process related with the use of information technology (IT).
As the second component in smart school, technology is used as an enabler not
only in teaching and learning, but also in management, and communications among
the stakeholders. The management and administration of the Smart School, which
represents the driver of the Smart School, is computerised. Management software
helps the Smart School principals and headmasters to manage more efficiently
and effectively the resources and processes required to support the
teaching-learning functions.
Third component is human resources, skills and responsibilities. Parents,
community, and private sector as the stakeholders, play active roles in
improving the performance of the school. All these parties are constantly
involved school management, teaching-learning, and other aspects of the Smart
School. Last component are the policies. The policies is to ensure the
successful implementation of the Smart School, changes in existing policies as
well as the formulation of the new policies and regulations.
BACKGROUND OF SMART SCHOOL
The
Malaysian Smart School is defined as learning institutions that have been
systematically reinvented in terms of teaching-learning practices and school
management in order to prepare children for the information age. The Smart
School Flagship was one of the seven applications identified under the
Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) initiative. The MSC Smart School Flagship
Application is a collaborative effort between the Ministry of Education (MoE)
and the Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC). The Telekom Smart School
(TSS) industry consortium provided the ICT expertise for the initiative.
The
history of the Smart School project is rooted in the two-pronged objectives of
the flagship, which are to jumpstart the MSC towards building a knowledge-based
economy, contributing to the growth of the ICT industry and creating a pool of
talent resulting in high-value job creation. The other one is to prepare the
citizens for the information age through an innovative education delivery
process.
The Ministry
of Education started to conceptualise the Malaysian Smart School in 1996 and
subsequently began its 3-year pilot phase with 88 pilot schools in 1999. Pilot
schools are 88 residential and non-residential primary and secondary schools
located in rural and urban areas throughout Malaysia that participated in the
study to make all 10,000 schools in Malaysia smart by 2010.
The aim of
the Smart School is to change the culture and practices of Malaysia’s schools,
moving away from rote-memory learning toward fostering creative thinking
skills. Smart schools are provided with computerized classrooms and LCD
projectors, electronic resource centre, computers in science labs, self-access
centres and WIFI hotspots. The other ICT initiatives are TV Pendidikan and Pelaksanaan Pengajaran Sains dan
Matematik dalam Bahasa Inggeris (PPSMI); teaching
of science and mathematics in English in 2003.
WHAT IS SMART SCHOOL?
INTRODUCTION
Information
and Communication Technology (ICT) has become very powerful tool recently for
imparting knowledge and training students to face the challenges posed by the
information-based global economy and development. A result, this has increase
in the demand for basic computing hardware in schools and higher institution
all around the country. Paradigm shift from pencil and paper-based teaching to
an ever-increasing reliance on electronic learning has been aware by
governments.
Hence,
respective education policies stressing on the need for greater technology
access for students. In order to achieve the full potential of ICT for
enhancing the learning experience, it is vital to increase the number of
students with access to computers. The retrofitted PCs offer an attractive and
cost-effective opportunity for installing computers in 10,000 schools across
the country. PC refurbishment forms an integral component for the success of
programs such as the Smart School initiative in Malaysia.
The former
Prime Minister of Malaysia, Dr. Mahathir Mohamad conceptualized the Vision 2020
plan for the country. This vision aimed to map out the steps required for a
sustained growth in the long term and achieve all the desired economic and
social objectives by 2020. A technologically literate and analytically thinking
population forms the cornerstone of this vision. This coupled with the education
system’s aim to nurture students into spiritually, intellectually, and
emotionally inclined individuals, lead to the formulation of the Smart School
Concept. Smart School is a flagship application of the Multimedia Super
Corridor.
Saturday, 13 October 2012
EDIT PICTURES VIA PAINT
Last week, we had
learned how to edit pictures by using the paint. These are the pictures that i
have editted. The jackfruits seem delicious and tasty right?So what are you
waiting for?? Just go and buy on your own or ask our ICT lecturer to treat us
as we know that he had a big jackfruit orchard.
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Below is the step in using 'Paint'.
1-Google the picture of jackfruit <
Printscreen < Paste into Paint.
2-Click on Selection Tool Box < Make
a rectangular shape on the picture.
4- Click Copy < New < Paste.
5- Insert the text into the picture.
6- Save the picture in JPEG format.
This is the other one steps:
1-Click on the Start button < All programs <
Accessories < Paint.
2-To in sert the pictures, click on Open < Select water
lilies.
3-Click on Selection Tool Box < Make a rectangular shape
on the picture.
4-Click Copy < New < Paste.
5-Insert the text into the picture.
6-Save the picture in JPEG format.
Sunday, 7 October 2012
ICT
This is my
first post. This blog have been create as it is one of student’s tasks in the
ICT course. I hope I can learn new experience and enjoy in blogging. Of course
I hope I will get A for this course. Amin. In shaa Allah I will.
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