THE ISSUES AND CHALLENGES IN

INTEGRATING ICT IN TEACHING AND LEARNING IN OUR MALAYSIAN SCHOOLS.

Prepared by :Shahira AhmadD20131063850Nur Asmidar MusaD20131063853

THE ISSUES AND CHALLENGES IN INTEGRATING ICT IN TEACHING AND LEARNING

Issues and Challenge in

integrating ICT in school

Advantages of integrating ICT in

school

CHALLENGES AND ISSUES1) To achieve a consistent level of ICT infrastructure in schools.• There continues to be enormous disparity in the level of ICT availability

and in the level of ICT use in schools, especially between schools in rural areas and schools in urban areas.

• The issue of lack of Internet connectivity is a particular challenge• At the current rate of development of connectivity, it is unlikely that the

infrastructure will be in place in time to connect all schools to the Internet - rural area

CHALLENGES AND ISSUES2 ) Teachers are not trained to create and implement teaching materials themselves.• Teachers is that using the courseware simply means assigning a topic

for students to learn or search without any guidelines.• Some teachers feel they can teach more content and make students

understand better by using traditional chalk and talk method.3 ) Breakdown of electricity supply• Enough energy supply needed to turn on the computer if all teachers

and students turn on the computer in one time, the energy will breakdown because the energy supply is not enough.

CHALLENGES AND ISSUES4 ) Time factor• The teachers complained that the free time was too short for them to

prepare their lesson using ICT – surfing, skimming ,selecting.• If have technical problem during lesson, take time to solve.5 ) When teachers use the electronic management system-SSMS-use in writing reports, taking attendance, setting timetables and preparing lesson plans• If a server breaks down, the teachers could not get access to SMSS-

teacher will frustrated.

CHALLENGES AND ISSUES6 ) Malfunction of computer, server, router and LCD.• Although technicians were positioned in all these schools, the frequent

technical malfunction had imposed problem to teachers. • It will take a long time to settle this problem.7 ) Updating and correction process take a long time.• It because courseware developers for the Ministry of Education assign

their intellectual property rights and copyright to the Government.

ADVANTAGES OF INTEGRATING ICT IN SCHOOL

• Our generation nowadays love to learn by using interactive materials from internet rather than reading books and listening to lecture.

• Teachers can access a lot of exercises and questions from internet.

Help in preparing new, interesting and

challenging materials for

teaching

• Use computer’s software to do their presentation slides, browsing some interesting materials, make video that related to their subjects.

• Eg : Microsoft PowerPoint, Windows Movie Maker.Increase students

creativity

ADVANTAGES OF INTEGRATING ICT IN SCHOOL

Make two ways

communications become

easier

• Through presentations and video calls

Make the academic

management become easier

• Classrooms’ teachers has no longer to ask students’ marks from other teachers where they can obtain them from online applications

• Eg : Sistem Analisis Peperiksaan Sekolah (SAPS)