INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY IN BIOLOGY

SBI3013
TITLE: THE ISSUES AND CHALLENGES IN INTEGRATING ICT IN TEACHING AND
LEARNING IN OUR MALAYSIAN SCHOOLS.

PREPARED BY:

NAME
NUR IZYAN BINTI EYZANI
NADZATUL ELYA BT MD FUAD

LECTURERS NAME: ENCIK AZMI BIN IBRAHIM

MATRIC NO.
D20141066918
D20141066881

CONTENTS
Descriptions

Page Number

a) INTRODUCTION

b) ESSAY

2-3

c) MAIN IDEAS

d) CONCLUSION

e) REFERENCES

f) APPENDIX

7-8

a) INTRODUCTION

Facts

Ideas

1. The application of

1. some teachers are not

ICT in teaching and

interested using ICT

learning

Learning Issues

Solutions

1. What is ICT?

1.

Reads

other

thesis and journal

2. How much does

2.School

management

2. A huge effort in

also plays crucial role to

terms of funding and

enhance

training

target in linking learning

to

equip

teachers and students

will

it

cost

by

2.Find

implementing ICT in

source

Malaysias Malaysias

related
from

the

internet

education?

process with ICT

with ICT skills.

3.

What

are

the

3. less budget to apply challengers

that

ICT in school education

and

teachers

students will face in

using ICT?

b) ESSAY
ICT application have become an important part of teaching and learning. The Ministry of
Education has invested a huge effort in terms of funding and training to equip teachers and
students with ICT skills. In your opinion, what are the issues and challenges in integrating
ICT in teaching and learning in our Malaysian Schools.
Give your idea to this issues in not more than 500 words (by group)

Nowadays, the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) is a necessity in

our life mostly in 21st century. ICT is powered by technologies and brings significant to the
education worldwide including Malaysia. Smart School is introduced as one of education
system that reconstruct systematically teaching-learning and school management in order to
prepared children for information age. It is one over seven flagship of Multimedia Super
Corridor (MSC) carry out in 2000. A huge effort in terms of funding and training to equip
teachers and students with ICT skills had invested by The Ministry of Education as
technology is the important component in Smart School. Several issues that related to
teaching and learning using ICT at Malaysian schools are Teaching Science and
Mathematics in English (PPSMI), Smart School, Notebook 1Malaysia and Multimedia Super
Corridor (MSC).
The issues have been raised regarding the implementation of ICT in teaching and
learning in our Malaysians school is some teachers are not interested using ICT. Issue
mostly come from the veteran teachers that like to teach students using the traditional ways
means using marker and white board and students write their notes. Learning time save
using the ICT, with such left time student be able to search more information about the topic
through the internet and ask their teachers anything related to the subject. Some teachers
think using the ICT is difficult and not suitable to their age as they have to remember all the
steps in the process of installed it during the learning. If this issue continuously in the future,
it is big detriment for government if it is not use wisely.
Despite of all challenges to integrate teaching using ICT, school management also
plays crucial role to enhance Malaysias target in linking learning process with ICT. Firstly
schools build up computer lab to accessing internet unfortunately, prepared computers are
lacking to support large number of students. Students must share the computer with two, or
perhaps more to use one computer. This is not practical to proceed the learning process.
Other than that most terrible part is, a few of computers that are not functioning without

taking any action to repair them. Thus management has to be improved to expose students
with ICT.
Furthermore, less budget to apply ICT in school education related to high cost in
purchasing the software, having seminar to train represent teachers from schools and to pay
the maintenance of ICT system. Because of cost to purchase the software is very high not all
schools can use the software. In order to use ICT Ministry of Education has to prepare a
seminar to train teachers all over schools to acquire ICT skill. High cost will be used to make
this happens. Then, cost for system maintenance also is expensive. From this challenge,
financial support should be in stable condition for education development.
To sum up all these, challenges of teaching using ICT have to be overcome because
education needs ICT. Government and school administration should play serious part in this
issue. Students must get exposed with ICT as it is crucial element to develop country in this
century. Hoping that next few years all schools will participate in teaching process using ICT
no matter rural schools or urban schools.

Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC).

Notebook 1Malaysia

Smart School

ISSUES
Teaching Science and Mathematics in English (PPSMI)

Less budget to apply ICT in school education

o plays crucial role to enhance Malaysias target in linking learning process with ICT

CHALLENGES

Teachers are not interested using ICT

c) MAIN IDEAS

c) CONCLUSION
Challenges of teaching using ICT have to be overcome because education needs ICT.
Government and school administration should play serious part in this issue. Students must
get exposed with ICT as it is crucial element to develop country in this century. Hoping that
next few years all schools will participate in teaching process using ICT no matter rural
schools or urban schools.

d) REFERENCES
Chan, Foong-Mae. ICT in Malaysian Schools: Policy and Strategies. Retrieved from
http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/apcity/unpan011288.pdf on 29
September 2012

John Lee (2009). Properly using the ICT in the classroom. Retrieved from
http://educationmalaysia.blogspot.com/2009/02/properly-using-ict-in-classroom.html on
Sept 29, 2012.

Policy and on ict in education Malaysia. Retrieved from

http://www.mscmalaysia.my/sites/default/files/pdf/publications_references/Policy%20on
%20ICT%20in%20Education%20Malaysia%202010.pdf on 27 September 2012.

Role of ICT in learning. Retrieved from

http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/usingglowandict/roleofictinlearning.asp on Sept 29,
2012.

e) APPENDIX

Smart School progress

The success of Smart School

The statistic show by other country uses ICT in Education

The environment using ICT in Malaysia as teaching and learning