The document discusses Malaysia's Multimedia Super Corridor initiative which aims to transform Malaysia into a modern state by 2020. One program under this initiative is the Smart School Flagship Application, a collaborative effort between the Ministry of Education and Multimedia Development Corporation. The initiative provides ICT expertise to schools and aims to impart a desire for learning to all generations through reinventing teaching/learning processes, management/administration, and equipping stakeholders with technology skills. Some challenges in implementing the Smart School program include a lack of readiness to change, passive students, lack of parent/community involvement, and infrastructure/network limitations.

2.  The Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC)
program was officially initiated by the 4th
Malaysian Prime Minister; Tun Dr. Mahathir
Mohammad on 12 February 1996.
 This program is to transform Malaysia into
a modern state by the year 2020.

4.  The Smart School Flagship is one of the seven flagship
applications envisaged under the Multimedia Super
Corridor initiative.
 The MSC Smart School Flagship Application is a
collaborative effort between the Ministry of Education
(MoE) and the Multimedia Development Corporation
(MDeC).
 The ICT expertise for the initiative was provided by the
Telekom Smart School (TSS) industry consortium. The
MDeC, which has been entrusted with the development
of the MSC, plays a key role in the implementation and
ensuring that targets are achieved as planned.

7. 1. Teaching-learning processes
- core of Smart School
- comprises 4 areas : curriculum, pedagogy, assessment and
teaching-learning materials
- process related : reinvented to help students to learn more
effective & efficient
2. Management and administration
- the driver of the Smart School
- helps principal to manage the resources & the processes
3. Human resource, skill and responsibility
- stakeholders responsible (improvement of school performance)
- they are equipped with specific skills & requisite knowledge

8. 4) Processes
- viewed as system
- continuously studied to ensure that the system
provides accurate input to produce desired output
5) Technology
- used as an enabler for Smart School in teaching-learning
process, management & communication
6) Policies
- change in existing policies & regulations is conducted
- to make sure implementation of Smart School is
successful

9. - to impart the learning desire to all generations
- technology derivation process is divided into 3 :
a) Smart School Practices
- teaching and learning : Distance learning
- management system : Financial management
- external constituencies : Other schools
b) Technical requirements
- network requirement

10. c) Smart school technology solutions
- school level -national level
- district level
Example:
District level
 Requirements - District database and security network
 Solutions - Centralised multi-point video conferencing,
secured transaction via network, regional server with a
unique computer address for each school and information
management and control

11. 1. Dealing with a learning environment.
Why?
-Not ready to change their mind set and to learn
use new ICT programme.
Then
gave minimal readiness
Assumed
that the practice could not solve the problems of
finishing the syllabus.

12. 2. Passive student
- Not play an active role in determining the
direction of their learning.
Causes
More confident with traditional method
Opinion
Smart teaching method is considered as slowing down
the teaching and learning process.

13. 3. Lack of parents and community involvement
Why?
Upgrade their life and provide better life to their
children
Opinion
Government and teachers are totally responsible
for the smart school programmes.
Causes
Not understand the concepts of Smart School.

14. 4. Limitations of infrastructure and network access
Why?
Need a lots of cost and funds.
Causes
Teaching and learning by using technology in Smart
School is not effective.
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Non-readiness teachers agree with their perception that
Smart TLM is burdened them and affects student
learning.