The
teachers can improve their ICT skills by attending courses, get use to ICT
equipments and applications and learn from the experience teachers. As we know,
the requirement of teachers which experts in handling equipment or ICT
application increases as the smart school interact with multimedia learning
which equipped with school resource centre, computer laboratory, classroom and
school access centre. Nowadays, era of information and communication technology
(ICT) are increase rapidly, so it is become part and parcel in the process of
teaching and learning in schools. So, to fulfill this requirement, the teacher
must improve their skills in ICT by attending courses that are conduct by
government. Teachers must also get used to ICT equipment and applications.
Examples of ICT equipment that usually use in the classroom is LCD projector
and OHP .So , the teachers must be able to set up these projector. Besides
that, teachers should also know to apply the application of ICT to their
students, such as word processor, spreadsheet, database and presentation. In
order to excel in ICT , the teachers can also learn from experience teachers.
They can gain more knowledge about handling the ICT equipment and learn more on
how to apply the application in ICT.
Government
should plays their important roles in order to improve the ICT facilities
especially for students in the rural area. First, the government should provide
the IT centre. As we know, these students have faced a lot of problems to
practice their ICT skills. This is because, the teacher only teach students on
how to use computer at school. The students may be excellence during that
session but when they come back to home, they do not have chances to practice
what they have learnt at school. This situation happened because students in
rural area not afford to have computer at home. So, by providing the IT centre,
they can practice their skill there. Besides, government have to provide the
internet access and notebooks for students in rural area. By this way, students
can search many information and increase their knowledge at home without going
anywhere and this can save their time.
Then, they also can have online discussion to solve any problems that they
faced in subjects at school.
It
is necessary for student to have freedom to explore the computer function but
always under the supervision of teacher. They must get familiar with the
computer and application in it. Teacher also should taught student on how to
find the correct and accurate information from reliable source. School also
play a major role to achieve teaching and learning in ICT. School should
provide computer facilities for student use and must be regularly maintained.
Other than that, school should organize a program like ‘Literacy Computer Day’
to increase the student awareness and interest in ICT and also give flexibility
for students to use computer in the computer laboratory outside school hours. From
parent side, they should give full support in everything that teacher and
school plan to achieve teaching and learning in ICT. Parents can also send
their children to computer class. For parents who are afforded to buy computer
and internet service, they are advice to do so. This is because, their children
can practise what they had learned at school when they at home but supervision
from parents is still required.
