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SMART SCHOOL
Lecturer: Encik Azmi Bin Ibrahim
Group: B
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Introduction of Smart School
Smart school is a learning institution that has been systematically reinvented in
terms of teaching-learning practices and school management in order to prepare children
for the Information Age. The Malaysian Ministry of Education is planning to transform
all schools into smart schools or better known as Sekolah Bestari. Smart school can
improves education and can supports the physical structures and environment. Smart
school can give the students opportunity and challenge to provide a more personalized
student learning experience while controlling costs.
Furthermore, smart school makes the students master in technologies. They can
communicate and connect with different schools from different area or state or national
authorities. Smart school also makes teachers works become more easy to handle. If the
teachers have any problem with students, they can just use the technology to inform the
students. Sekolah bestari leads the students to think when they want to settle their
projects or works.
Every schools can control their costs such as there will be no or less use of
markers or chalks in a smart school. The teachers use digital sources to teach their
students. Smart school is a healthy friendly and gives a lot of positive effects.
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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.
5. Democratise education.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
Library media center with database for multimedia course ware and network
access to the internet.
Multimedia development center with tools for creating multimedia materials and
computer studies as a subject.
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Advantages and Disadvantages Smart School
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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.
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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
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new millennium education in Malaysia and in accordance with the technological
developments, social and cultural present. We also can improved our educational and
have a same of level educational with other developed countries.
Reference
Heng Tiger. Smart School In Malaysia.(3rd December 2012). Retrieved from
https://www.slideshare.net/hengtiger/smart-school-in-malaysia-15474461.
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Smart School Preparing For Future Generation. (26th March 2015). Retrieved from
http://www.mscmalaysia.my/mdecthrowbackthursday/2015-03-26.
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