Ain Fikri's e-Portfolio

The Information and Communication Technology is the alternative way in teaching and learning for all subject in school especially in sciences class. The learning aspect including teachers finding information with ICT or the student themselves explore the world of ICT to find information. The usage of ICT during learning time can be categories into four aspect that is tutorial, exploring, application tools and for communication. ICT also has been used during teaching periods as presentation and demonstration tools. ICT can give many benefit in learning time, such as, increased the student understanding and skills in that particle subject. Other than that, ICT apparatus also can increase the student motivation in learning.

Furthermore the student also can self learning at home also at classroom by searching the information using internet. By having ICT equipment in school helps the student to surf the internet by their own. The student can also do something that impossible to do it in real life, for example some dangerouse and expensive experiment that cannot done in real life. The issue is, nowadays, most of graduated teacher lack of skill in computer and do not know how to us the ICT tools in school. That’s why all the ICT equipment that present in classroom or ICT laboratory is wasted because teacher do not know how to use it properly.

In order to manage this issue, the government propose that it is compulsory for all undergraduate sciences teacher to learn Information and Communication Technology. In this lecture, student is introduce to use LCD and also smart board. Sometime we might also find student know how to use ICT better than teacher. Therefore the teachers nowadays must mastered themselves in computer to make sure that the learning and teaching process would be effective. Teachers also need to create a fun learning to attract student by using computer. The teacher’s role is now change from a normal teaching methods from a more interactive learning using all the ICT equipments in classroom.

The act towards the ICT and computer is also the factor that leads to teachers acceptance for computer and ICT. The latest researched found out that there still lot number of teacher that have phobia to use computer or scared to computer and also refuse to use t during learning and teaching periods. Therefore our ex-ministry of education Tan Sri Musa Muhamad has remind all the teachers that the government has spent a lot of money to prepare technology’s infrastructure in school and all teachers must use all these infrastructure to produce more excellent student. Besides that, if we consider the school in rural area, they have lack of ICT infrastructure due to the difficulties of reaching that area.

Furthermore, at back country, the electric supply also not enough to support computers. At other area, they used generator to work the computer on. Unfortunately the generator only work for an hour and the power also not enough to start computer cause the computer to become slow and sometimes turn off itself. In addition, the fuel to generate the generator may cost about RM 700 and that is a very huge money to support only for several computer. The computer that government supplied to these school is same as the other school, but the problem is that these computer is not using due to lack of electric supply or even worst they have no electric supply in that country caused all the computers to broken down itself.