This document discusses the smart school concept in Malaysia. It provides: 1) An overview of smart school goals like all-round student development and enhancing individual strengths. 2) Details on the four phases of smart school implementation from 1999-2020 with increasing technology integration. 3) Differences between smart schools and normal schools in curriculum, pedagogy, assessment, and materials. 4) Uses of technology as an enabler for teaching and learning through tools, group work, and interactive classes. 5) Challenges faced in implementation like reluctance of some teachers to integrate technology and shortage of computers.

1. GROUP MEMBERS
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2. What is smart school?
• A Malaysian education system which the education system in
school including the management are reinvented.
Goals :
1) To provide all-round development of the individual like
intellectual, physical, emotional, and spiritual
2) To provide opportunities to enhance individual strengths
and abilities.
3) To produce thinking and technology-literate workforce
and apply technology in teaching and learning.
4) Democratized education
1) To increase the participation of stakeholders

3. Four Waves of The Smart
School Implementation

4. • Pilot phase
• Is the plan of the original implementation
1999- Plan
2002
• Post Pilot Phase
2002- • Involved ICT as a key enables learning.
2005
• Making all schools smart
2005-
2010
• The consolidate and stabilized technology become an
integral part of nation’s learning process .
2010- • technology becomes key enable in teaching and
2020 learning and the computers will be made available for

5. How Smart School is differ from
a normal school?
 The smart school is differ based on their
characteristics which does not have in normal
school.
 The characteristics were included the process of:
1) Curriculum
2) Pedagogy
3) Assessment
4) Teaching and learning material

6. 1) Curriculum
• Will be designed to help overall and balanced
development of the student achievers.
• The integration of
knowledge, skill, values, correct use of
language and attitudes suitable.
• Allowing for self-paced leaning across grades.
2) Pedagogy
• Involved specific learning
• To ensure mastery of basic comperencies and
promotion of holistic development
• Classroom atmosphere is compatible with
different teaching –learning strategies.

7. 3) Assesmen
• The integration of technology as a tool enables
the on-line assessment and conducted in order to
show the strength and the abilities of the student.
• The teaching and learning material provide an
accurate picture of the student’s performance.
4) Teaching and learning material
• Five main criteria for the selection and evaluation
for teaching and learning materials:
1. The cosmetic adequacy,
2. Technical adequacy,
3. Instruction adequacy
4. Cost effectiveness and

8. The use of the technology as enables
contained in smart school concept
• In order to support the country’s ICT master plan
and in line with the country’s drive to fulfill vision
2020, the education system has to be transform.
• The catalyst for this transformation will be
ICT-enable Smart School.
• As to reduce the digital divide that exist in
different part of the country, the computer
laboratories were provided to thousands of
school.

9. • The ministry has formulated three main policies for
ICT in education, such as:
First policy : ICT for all student.
Second policy: Emphasises the role and function of
ICT in education as a teaching and
learning tool.
Third policy :Emphasises using ICT to increase
productivity, efficiency and
effectiveness of the management
system.

10. • ICT is a key enabler for learning.
• The uses of ICT in Smart School:
1) As supporting tool in teaching and
learning practices.
2) Facilitates group work within the class
and across the class.
3) Distance learning can be convenient.
4) Help the student to stimulate learning in
experimental learning process
through courseware provided.
5) Enable to create interactive and enjoyable
classes.

11. Overview of The
Progression of Smart
School So Far

12. 28 September 1992: proclamation of
Malaysia become a develop nation in its
mould by 2020
Early 1996: Discussion about Smart School
by the Ministry of Education on the
concept and it implication on the
Malaysian education system
Late 1996: Smart School become one of
the seven flagship application of
Multimedia Super Corridor
February 1999 until June 1999: production of the
vision of the Smart School in the document
“Smart School in Malaysia: A Quantum Leap”.

13. 1999-2002: 88 schools were
selected to run as smart school
provided with 5809 computer sets
and 261 computer technicion
2003: the education system had started
the teaching and learning of science and
mathematics in English and the using of
interactive courseware during class
2006-2010: the government has
implemented the “in cultured
school with smart technology”
program as an agenda in the
education development master
plan (EDMP).

14. Overview on the Bestari
training

15. 1998-2000: Duration of Bestari
teachers training was 14 weeks.
2001-2003:The training become in-serving
course (KDP) of 12 week to satisfy
teachers training requirement in Sarawak.
2004-2005: The training period once
again changed from 12 weeks to 8
weeks because teacher being away
from school
2007: the training mode changed to 4
weeks. Two week at institute teachers
education (IPG) and another two
weeks at school

16. Challenges Since The
Implementation of Smart
School

17. 1) Most of the teachers are still using the traditional
ways of teaching and refuse to integrate the teaching
and learning with ICT
2) There were also voices of rejection ,they are worried as
how far the Smarts school can ensure the achievement of
excellent student because the last thing being evaluated is
the achievement in examination
3) Software which is currently used since the
implementation of Smarts school. It has been criticized
by the parents and teachers because the software
provided were sub-standard and did not suitable for the
high achieving student .

18. 4) There were many complaints about the shortage of
computers.
Due to the increasing of students which cause each
computer have to be shared by two students and this may
reduce the opportunity of using computer equally
5) Exam centered learning
One student said: “Learning using the computer is only
deepening your knowledge but it does not help you in
your examination”.