ICT IN BIOLOGY

Malaysian Smart School

GROUP MEMBER’S :
~ NASUHA MUHAMMAD
~ ILANI JAILANI
~ MAHIRAH MAZLAN
~ NUR AMALINA ROHAIZAN
 What is the SS concept?

•A learning institution that has been

systemically reinvented in terms of
teaching-learning practices and
school management in order to
prepare children for the Information
Age.
Qualities of the Malaysian Smart
School
a philosophy that says
a broad curriculum
all students can learn
that considers the
if taught, coupled with
different capabilities
high expectations for
and needs of all
all students
students
an on-going
assessment that
supports good a high level of
instruction parent and
a school climate community
that is conducive involvement
to learning and support
strong and
professional
principals and
teachers
Key Components of a
Smart School

Teaching and Learning

Management and Administration
People, Skills and Responsibilities
Technology
Processes
Policies
 Teaching and Learning
The Smart School teaching and learning environment
will be shaped in four main areas, each of which will be
a critical element in defining the overall teaching and
learning experience for Smart School children:

Curriculum
Pedagogy

Assessment
Teaching-Learning
Materials
 CURRICULUM
CHARACTERISTICS BENEFITS
• Designed to help students achieve overall • Children educated with
and balanced development. critical and creative
• Integration of knowledge, skills, values thinking skills,
and correct use of language across the inculcated with values,
curriculum and encouraged to
• Intended learning outcomes explicitly improve language
stated for different levels of abilities,
proficiency Holistic
ensuring all students gain access to
quality learning, and allowing for self-
learning promoted
paced learning across grades Children allowed to
• Multidisciplinary, thematic and progress at their own
continuous across learning areas pace Students’ varying
• Integration of knowledge, skills, and capabilities, interests,
attitudes suitable for the Information and needs catered for
Age
 Designed to help students achieve overall and
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balanced development

Domains ALL-ROUND DEVELOPMENT

Communication Effective oral and written communication in Malay.
English as a second communication language.
Emphasise multiple languages, interpersonal skills
and networking.
Cognitive Focus on acquiring knowledge. Focus on searching,
generating, and using cognitive knowledge with an
emphasis on problem-solving and creativity.
Affective/ Instil moral and religious values. Emphasise
Emotional adaptability, team-player characteristics, emotional
balance and emotional intelligence.
Physical/ Instil social responsibility and consciousness of
Social health and environmental issues. Emphasise a global
orientation and inculcate work place skills and
attitudes.
 Integration of knowledge, skills, values and
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correct use of language across the curriculum

KNOWLEDGE
-Content knowledge SKILLS
-Problem solving knowledge -Creative and critical
-Epistemic knowledge thinking skill
- Inquiry knowledge
. -Personal skills
-Social skills

VALUES
-Self-reliance
-Humanity
LANGUAGE
-Respect
-Reading, writing and oral
-Love
communication
 Intended learning outcomes explicitly stated for different
3 levels of abilities, ensuring all students gain access to quality
learning, and allowing for self-paced learning across grades

The curriculum will reflect

vertical integration to allow
high
fliers to ‘surf’ through their
schooling years, without being
kept apart from their peers, in
virtual express classes.
 Multidisciplinary, thematic and continuous
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across learning areas

• A multidisciplinary • An
approach is one in interdisciplinary
which two or three approach combines
subject areas are all subject areas
combined in a to focus the full
single learning area array of
that focuses on a disciplines on a
theme, issue, theme, issue,
problem, topic, or problem, topic, or
concept. concept.
 Integration of knowledge, skills, and attitudes
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suitable for the Information Age

• IT Literacy is the ability to use IT tools and IT

sources to: collect, analyse, process and present
information support meaningful learning in a variety
of contexts prepare for working life.

• In addition, the Smart School co-curriculum

programme will provide activities that reinforce
classroom learning for example community service
activity, cultural activities, subject-related activities
and social activities.
 PEDAGOGY
CHARACTERISTICS BENEFITS
• Appropriate mix of learning • Learning becomes more
strategies to ensure mastery interesting, motivating,
of basic competencies and stimulating and meaningful
promotion of holistic the mind, spirit, and body of
development the child is involved in the
• Allowing for individua learning process basic skills
differences in learning styles to prepare children for
to boost performance the greater challenges over time
classroom atmosphere is a range of diversities in
compatible with different needs and capabilities
teaching-learning strategies catered for
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Appropriate mix of learning strategies using
innovative methods of teaching
Process involves specific learning goals active learning process, where learner
constructs meaning continuouS personalised
Modes alone, in pairs, or in small teams with an expert (teacher or community
member), a facilitator (teacher assistant, volunteer or student), non-human
resources (hands-on materials, computer-based resources, multimedia
resources, or print
materials) at a site in the community, a computer-based multimedia
simulation, a hands-on learning lab, a meeting room or library
Tasks authentic, often in real life environments, with real world challenges
interdisciplinary:
* specific knowledge
* general skills such as transfer of information across settings,
negotiation and interpersonal skills, decision making skills mastery of a task
before progressing to next task periodic performance mastery assessment
more responsibility to learner for directing and managing own learning
 The classroom atmosphere will be important to
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support the Smart School teaching and learning
Creating an atmospheremodel
of respect and rapport
• positive teacher interaction with students
• positive student interaction

Establishing a culture for learning

• importance of a balance between process and content in learning
• student pride in work
• high expectations for learning and achievement
Managing classroom procedures
• collaborative management of instructional groups
• seamless management of transitions
• collaborative management of materials and supplies
• collaborative performance of non-instructional tasks
• effective supervision of volunteers and paraprofessionals
Managing student behaviour
• clear standards of conduct developed with students’ input
• unobtrusive monitoring of student behaviour by teacher and peers
• sensitive and appropriate response to student misbehaviour
Organising physical space
• safe and optimal use of class space and furniture
• optimal use of all physical resources
• equal accessibility to all learning
 ASSESMENT
CHARACTERISTICS BENEFITS
1. Holistic • Help realise the National
2. Element-based Philosophy of Education
3. Criterion-referenced • Assure quality flexible
4. Learner-centred and learner-friendly
5. On-line • Provide more accurate
picture of a student’s
6. Conducted in various
forms
achievement, readiness,
progress, aptitude,
7. Using multiple approaches
learning styles, and
and instruments
abilities
8. On-going
 HOLISTIC in that it covers not only achievement but also readiness,
1 progress and aptitude. Such an approach will give various information
regarding the student’s learning styles and abilities.

ELEMENT-BASED assessment focuses on the elements that

2 students possess or must develop through the subjects in the school
curriculum. This kind of assessment provides information on the
mastery and achievement of elements by a student.

CRITERION-REFERENCED assessment is a form of assessment

3 that evaluates an individual’s performance based on a predetermined
set of criteria.

4 LEARNER-CENTRED assessment is a flexible system of assessment

which is administered on an individual basis.
 On-line assessment means that the items for smart assessment
5 will be stored in a computerised item bank and be made available to
users on terminals through networking.

Conducted in various forms: Classroom Assessment, School-based

6 Assessment and Centralised Assessment, to allow different
demonstrations of strengths, abilities and knowledge.

Use multiple approaches and instruments to perform Authentic,

7 Alternative and Performance Assessments: Authentic,
Alternative, and Performance Assessment actively involves
students in a process that combines what is taught, how it is
taught, and how it is evaluated

On-going and continuous:Assessment is part of the teaching

8 and learning process, and must therefore be on-going in nature.
Hence, certification is a “living” process.
 TEACHING-LEARNING
MATERIALS
CHARACTERISTICS BENEFITS
• Meets curricular and • Accommodates student’s
instructional needs, is cost different need and
effective, as well as cosmetically abilities resulting in the
and technically adequate fuller realisation of
• Cognitively challenging, student’s capabilities and
attractive, motivates students potential
to learn, and encourages active • Students take
participation responsibility for
• Combines the best of network- managing and directing
based, teacher-based and their own learning.
courseware materials such as
Edunet, Internet and Classified
Printed Directories
Management and Administration
CHARACTERISTICS
1. Strong, professional administrators and teachers
2. School goals articulated clearly
3. Leads teaching at the school
4. High level of parental and community support and
involvement
5. Maintains open channels of communication with all
constituencies
6. Allocates resources to benefit the greatest
number of students
BENEFITS
• Efficiency • Effectiveness
- Re-allocation of - Improves quality of
skilled decisions through
human resources better
to more valuable access to
activities information
- Cost savings over the - Improves speed of
long term decision making
The Nine Primary Functions of Smart School
Management

1. School Governance
2. Student Affairs
3. Educational Resources
4. External Resources
5. Financial
6. Facilities
7. Human Resources
8. Security
9. Technology
 People, Skills and
Responsibilities
The Smart School has a commitment to provide
equal opportunities for all students with
different needs and capabilities so as to
enhance their capacity for learning. This
commitment involves the development of the
main stakeholders who are involved in the
delivery of Smart School teaching. This will
represent a revolutionary departure traditional
modes of teaching currently practised.
The main stakeholders
TEACHERS

PRINCIPALS

SUPPORT STAFF

OTHER EDUCATION
PERSONNEL
PARENTS & COMMUNITY
 Technology
FUNCTION SCHOOL LEVEL TECHNOLOGY
• Facility for teaching and learning activities.
• Assist the school management
• Fully equipment of school
- classrooms with multimedia courseware, computer
laboratory, multimedia development centre etc.

SMART SCHOOL TECHNICAL SMART SCHOOL

PRACTISES REQUIREMENTS TECHNOLOGY
-Teaching and learning -Sample application SOLUTIONS
- Management system solutions -School level
- External - Network - District level
constituencies requirements - State level
- National level

THE TECHNOLOGY DERIVATION PROCESS

ENVISIONED FEATURES OF THE
SMART SCHOOL
• Technology input- LAN, WAN hardware and
courseware
• Technology standards- common tech. for
interoperability
• Data Security- Most data will be on-line and
easily accessible
• Technology Architecture- A central agency will
co-ordinate
the introduction of technology into Smart Schools
 Processes
• Smart School processes are viewed as a
system. When the system is provided with
inputs, the Smart School processes will work
to produce the desired outputs.
• The Smart School process will change the way
children are taught. Learning is then
optimised to each child. Individual minds,
spirits and physical selves are catered to
rather than the treatment of the class as a
homogeneous collective whole.
 Viewing the Smart School process as a system

Smart School Core Processes

Into the TO PRODUCE (DESIRED)

Apply RESOURCES
system OUTCOMES
 Policies
• Policies is used as an umbrella term that encompasses
both legistive policies and regulations that will
influences SS and effective implementation.
• The whole range policies, regulations, procedures and
practices both formal and informal, written and
unwritten that will need to be changed to
accommodate implementation of Smart Schools.
• This complex task will be undertaken by numerous
departmental committees in the Ministry of
Education and will require time and several iterations
to arrive at specific new approaches.
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