Information And Communication Technology In Biology

Smart School
Lecturer :Encik Azmi Bin Ibrahim
Group : B
Group Member:
Name Matric Nu
Nurhidayah Binti Shahbudin D201620
Noor Alia Binti Kamaruzaman D201620
Wan Syafika Nabila Binti Wan Hashim D201620

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 Content
Content
Introduction of Smart School
Mains Goals of Smart School.
Why Smart school are different from Normal National school
Progress of Smart School
Advantages and Disadvantages Smart School
Challenges Smart school and how to overcome
Conclusion

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 Mains Goals of Smart School.

The Smart School initiative have five goals which is focus on the need to develop
a skilled work force for the Information Age.

1. Produce a thinking and technology-literate workforce

2. Provide all-round development of the individual which is from intellectual,

physical, emotional and spiritual.

3. Provide opportunities to enchance individual strength and abilities.

4. Increase participation of stakeholders

5. Democratise education.

Why Smart school are different from Normal National

school

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 The Smart School won't be the same as any existing schools anywhere around the
world. These are due to two main factors involving current education system in Malaysia
and will continue in Smart School. Firstly, The National Philosophy of Malaysian
Education will be the main component of Smart School curriculum. Secondly, moral
values that have been stressed in present curriculum will go on into Smart schooling.
These two foundations of Malaysian Education will not be negotiable in the Smart
Curriculum. This will make the Smart School different than the rest of normal schools.
How the curriculum is being carried out in Smart School may resemble to the existing
Smart Schools.

The Malaysian Smart Schools Project was started as one of the MSC Flagship
Applications, along with 6 others. A Smart School is a learning institution where the
teaching-learning practices and school management has been systemically reinvented.
This is to prepare students for the information era that is so important today. What
distinguishes smart schools from other schools is the use of technology to support and
enhance teaching-learning. The process not only involves the introduction of IT and
multimedia.

The Smart Schools assessment system will be distinctly different from current
systems to help to realize the National Philosophy of Education It shall be element-based
and criterion-referenced to provide a more holistic and accurate picture of a students
performance. Teachers, students and parents will be able to access on-line assessment
items. Smart School assessment will be flexible and learner-friendly, while assuring the
quality of the assessment information by using multiple approaches and instruments. The
assessment system shall also be element-based which focuses on the elements that
students possess or must develop through the subjects in the school curriculum such as
science and technology, social-emotional and cognitive development and also
communication. Thus, the assessment will be conducted in various forms such as
Classroom Assessment, School-based Assessment and Centralized Assessment, to allow
different demonstrations of strengths, abilities and knowledge.

Lastly, the curriculum of Smart School is open-ended in two ways there are it is
open to revision and continued refinement and it provides open access to all students for
internet using, allowing students to go beyond explicitly stated learning outcomes in
curriculum documents. Besides, the curriculum focuses on significant goals. In this case
all students, including those with special needs can develop the critical skills and acquire
the knowledge they need for effective lifelong learning and full functioning as citizens in
a changing society and in this challenging life.

Progress of Smart School

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 The Smart School Flagship is one of the few initiatives in the region that
incorporates strategic planning elements into its implementation Roadmap. The
milestones for the Smart School Flagship has four waves.

The four waves of the Smart School implementation plan are

1. Wave 1 which is known as The Pilot (1999-2002)

2. Wave 2 known as The Post-Pilot (2002-2005)

3. Wave 3 known as Making All School Smart (2005-2010)

4. Wave 4 known as Consolidate and Stabilise (2010-2020).

In order to implement the Pilot project, a smart partnership was forged between
the Ministry of Education (MoE), Telekon Smart School Sdn Bhd (TSS), and Multimedia
Development Corporation (MDeC), ensuring involvement from both the central and state
level. The Smart School implementation comprises two phases, that is, a Pilot Project
phase and a broad roll-out phase. There are eighty-seven (87) Pilot schools were involved
in the Pilot Project phase which tested three models of technology, that is a computer
laboratory model (Level B), a limited classroom model (Level B+), and a full classroom
model (Level A).

In the original Implementation Plan, the Ministry of Education would use the
findings of the Pilot Project to prepare a Master Plan to ensure that all schools in the
country become smart schools in the stages, by the year 2010. The Government of
Malaysia is expected to play the role of architect and driver for the Smart School project
in the ways to prepare the guidelines and provide the basic amenities to schools according
to their individual needs. Second way is actively encourage all schools to become Smart
Schools on their own initiative by using their own financial resources and expertise. The
87 pilot schools are identified to act as the nucleus for the eventual roll-out of Smart
School concepts, materials, skills, and technologies. This Pilot Project tested the Smart
School Integrated Solution (SSIS) via a few components.

1. The provision of ICT infrastructure and system.

2. Teaching Learning Materials (TLMs) (1,494 courseware titles) and related

print materials for Malay Language, English, Science and Mathematics.

3. A computeris Smart School Management System (SSMS) with the

management of major school functions provided in modular form.

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 4. A Smart School Technology Infrastructure involving the use of computers and
non-IT equipment, Local Area Network (LAN) and a Virtual Private Network
(VPN) that connects the schools to the Ministrys Data Centre and Help Desk.

5. Support services in the form of centralised Help Desk and a data centre which
can provide teaching-learning and management support for the schools.

6. Related specialised services which form part of the SSIS such as systems
integration, project management, business process reengineering and change
management to achieve a total solution to all the teaching-learning,
management, and leadership functions of the school.

7. The provision of training for teachers, Principals, and School Heads in smart
teaching and learning, the use of Smart School applications software,
courseware, and ICT literacy.

The implementation phase, 1992-2002, was closely monitored by the parties concerned
such as the MoE, TSS, and MDeC. Issues were resolved at the steering committee and
monitoring meetings attended by the three main players. When the Pilot Project was
successfully concluded in 2002, a consortium of evaluators made up of experts from the
local universities was commissioned by the MoE/MDeC partners to conduct an
evaluation of the project. This evaluation work began in April 2003 and a report of the
findings was published in 2004. There are also a review by a MoE or TSS team of Power
Rangers and a benchmarking study. These serve to illustrate the current status of Smart
Schools in Malaysia.

Technology

Smart School practices in teaching and learning, management, and communication with
external constituencies will dictate technical requirements and technology solutions.

Technology plays many roles in a Smart School from facilitating teaching and learning
activities to assisting with schools management.

Fully equipping a school includes:

Classrooms with multimedia, presentation facilities, e-mail, and groupware for

collaborative work.

Library media center with database for multimedia course ware and network
access to the internet.

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 Computer laboratory for teaching, readily accessible multimedia and audio-visual
equipment.

Multimedia development center with tools for creating multimedia materials and
computer studies as a subject.

Studio with control room for centralized audio-visual equipment, teleconferencing

studio, audio room, video and laser disc video room.

Teachers room with online access to courseware catalogs and databases,

information and resource management systems and professional networking tools
such as e-mail and groupware.

Server room equipped to handle applications, management databases and web

servers.

Administration offices capable of managing databases of students and facilities,

tracking student and teacher performance and resources, distributing notices and
other information electronically.

Advantages and Disadvantages Smart School

The advantages of smart school is makes learning more fun. By using

laptop or tablet students can more interested with virtual lesson example through
video. Furthermore, smart school provided with latest technology. The technology
makes students are able to access the most up to date information quicker and
easier than ever before. Next, smart school gives students to work individually.
Students can have their own learning and decisions.

Disadvantages of Smart School is encourage students to cheat in class and

on homework. Students do not have to think for the answer and just search on
the internet. They will lazy and does not want to thinks about the correct answer.
Next, higher cost for government. Government need to invest a lot of money in
electronic facilities. It is because the electronic facilities are so expensive. Last
but not least, the electronic maintenance. The smart school at the area city only
got proper maintenance while school in rural area have limited technology.

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Challenges Smart school and how to overcome

1. The teacher especially senior teachers has been blended with traditional
methods and difficult to adapt new instructional technology.
How to overcome - Teachers must complete himself or herself with
ICT knowledges and skills. This is because teachers have a big
responsible to teach and deliver knowledges to the students for
master in using ICT.
2. Shortage of technology facilities. The computer labs not in adequate
number. There are also hardware problems related to LANs, PCs and
servers.
How to overcome - We can overcome the lack of facilities with the
estimate of budget. KPM must have a plan to give each smart
school a good facilities to student create smart school.
3. Hardware, software and courseware problem. The software and hardware
are out of date. Software that supply by KPM cannot be used by schools
computer.
How to overcome - KKM must update all software and hardware
to all smart school so the program of smart school will success.
Also give the school all news brands of technology.

4. The school in rural area has very limited internet coverage.

How to overcome - Provide more internet broadband facilities or
1Malaysia Internet Centre (PI1M) at the rural area so students
or teachers can access internet whenever they need. PI1M in a rural
area are built in a low-costing
Area.

5. Lack of information about smart school among citizens.

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 How to overcome - Organize campaigns about the important of
smart school and promote to everyone.

6. Insufficiency of manpower in handling the technical problems.

How to overcome - Government should provide a skilled
technician to every school. Every school should have enough
technician to repair if there any problems.

Conclusion
If the challenges and the weakness of the smart school can be overcome, we can
achieve the target to develop the smart school and students with a more critical and
creative ways to use technology as enablers. The existence of a smart school will create
new millennium education in Malaysia and in accordance with the technological

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developments, social and cultural present. We also can improved our educational and
have a same of level educational with other developed countries.

The educational system and in many developed countries have implemented or

are being implemented, is the use of information and communication technologies in the
educational system and consequently the establishment and development of smart
schools. These schools were actually a new concept and philosophy of education and by
abandoning the traditional series of inhibitors, they try to use information technology to
provide training. Malaysia has a national policy and master plan for infrastructure and
ICT integration in education. Effort and many resources have been spent on smart school
project. Providing or improving infrastructure and ICT facilities in schools are only one
step to go a long way towards integrating ICT with education at schools. However, there
are many potential abilities to stimulate educational systems in support of the integration.
Some of the initial steps in that direction are equipping schools with ICT infrastructure,
training teachers and administrators to gain expertise and familiarity with basic
applications of ICT and software development courses. As regards ongoing training for
teachers and administrators with a range of ICT applications and giving them time to
enhance their confidence is a priority.

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