Smart School Promotional Programmes

Karnival Pembestarian Sekolah

The Ministry of Education organized the 'Karnival Pembestarian Sekolah' in SMK(A) Sandakan Sabah, as one of its outreach programmes to the rural community to promote the usage of technology in education. In realizing the Ministry of Education's vision of 'Making All Schools Smart by 2010' , the 'Pembestarian' concept highlights the utilization of various existing ICT initiatives provided by the government. Collaborative efforts are crucial in ensuring all ICT initiatives in schools are optimized for the benefit of teaching and learning (T&L).

The Karnival Pembestarian Sekolah is a medium to introduce new innovations in T&L, as well as to provide a hands-on experience for the rural community to try out and be aware of the advantages that technology brings to education. Programmes throughout the 'Karnival Pembestarian Sekolah' can be categorized in two stages, pre-event and during the event itself. Pre-event activities includes peer coaching activities on ICT integration for school teachers, event activities includes various workshops on ICT integration, exhibition on product and ICT services for T&L, demonstrations, national level ICT competitions and visitors activities.

Objectives:

1. To inform and encourage ICT products and services utilization by using this avenue as a platform in introducing the ICT initiatives by MOE as well as other smart partners from the industry.
2. To inform the rural community on the Making All Schools Smart by 2010 initiative
3. To increase the students' 21st century learning skills in creating a competitive and competent human capital
4. To reduce the digital divide between urban and rural community

MDeC's specific objectives at the 'Karnival Pembestarian Sekolah' :

1. To reach out to the community and stakeholders, and engaging them through showcases of benefits that can be derived from smart schools initiatives towards creating an innovative and creative human capital pool.
2. To enable the community to see and experience various teaching and learning methodology using ICT and how it empowers learning, and narrows the digital divide.
3. To increase the public's confidence in MSC Malaysia by emphasizing on MDeC-led industry support to MOE's programmes in making rural schools smart.
4. To encourage schools to integrate ICT in their school environment by utilizing existing ICT initiatives and infrastructure in schools.
5. To highlight MDeC's role in making all schools smart.

Seminar Sedekad Sekolah Bestari

10 years have since passed when Malaysia first dreamt of creating schools which will nurture and develop future leaders holistically. Smart School, one of the seven flagships of the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC Malaysia), is now a dream realized.

In spite of being challenged with steep learning curves to scale, tremendous progress has been made and much has been achieved. In this regards, to celebrate the 10 years of the Smart School Flagship Application implementation, the Ministry of Education (MOE) will be organizing Seminar Sedekad Sekolah Bestari on 27th - 30th April, 2009 at Sek. Sultan Alam Shah, Putrajaya.

The main theme of the seminar is Sedekad Sekolah Bestari: Pengalaman dan Cabaran. The seminar consists of 3 sub-themes as the following:

• Smart School Implementation
• Challenges and Success Stories
• Moving Forward

MDeC and MOE have been working closely in the implementation of the Smart School initiatives at 88 smart schools. Therefore, during the seminar, MDeC had shared our perspectives, approaches, roles, development and implementation of smart school programmes, challenges, success stories and way forward.