UNIVERSITI PENDIDIKAN SULTAN IDRIS

PROBLEMS FACED BY SMART SCHOOL

PREPARED BY:

WONG SIEW CHING D20091034815MARIA TING MEE SING D20081032208UMI ABIBAH BT SULAIMAN D20091034811SITI RAHAYU BT MOHAMED NOOR D20091034855

PROBLEMS

Heavy investment on facilities

SS aims to integrate ICT in education so need many high-tech facilities

The costs and maintenance fees for the facilities are high

Lack of manpower in handling the technical problem

Some schools do not have enough technician

If technical problems occur during class, teacher and students have to wait for the technician

Affect the teaching and learning process

Some teachers are not keen on

using the courseware

They lack ICT knowledge and not

comfortable with the use of

hardware and courseware

Prefer traditional way of teaching

which is chalk and talk

Think that using courseware is a

waste of time so they rather pay

more attention on parts that are

related to exams

WHY???

Smart School courseware was found to be under-utilised

• Some teachers can’t teach

effectively

• New teachers lack of

intensive training

• Experienced teachers lack

of ICT knowledge

• Still practicing teacher-

centered teaching where

teachers should be the

facilitators and students are

active learners

• One of the problems SS faced is to design teaching-learning materials that will accommodate students’ differing needs and abilities

• Courseware has to be developed for all subjects in the curriculum and to cater for the high fliers, the average and the slow

• This courseware must have discrete self-contained packages, interactive, cognitively challenging, with self-assessment and built-in checkpoints for teachers’ inputs

• Besides, there is a need to make available rapid and sustainable supply of courseware in the next year or two, and to have these constantly replenished and updated