PBl Report Issues and Challenges in ICT

PBL REPORT

PROBLEM STATEMENT:

ICT application have become an important part of teaching and learning. The Ministry of Education has invested a huge efforts in terms of funding and training to equips teacher and students with ICT skills. In your opinion, what are the issues and challenges in integrating ICT in teaching and learning in our Malaysian schools.

FILA CHART:

Facts	Idea	Learning Issue	Action Plan
1. The government has started integrating ICT in teaching and learning in Malaysian school long time ago. 2. Nowadays, ICT application has become one of the main important thing in the teaching and learning session in schools. 3. The government has use a lot of money to prepared the teachers and the students, so that they will have appropriate ICT skills. 4. There are a lot of issues that arises when the government implemented an ICT application in Malaysian schools. 5. Even though, this ICT application has a lot of benefits, there are many challenges in integrating ICT in teaching and learning in our Malaysian schools.	1. Teachers lack  skills and knowledge about ICT application. 2. ICT application helps the teachers to deliver the knowledge effectively in more attractive way. 3. The Ministry Of Education should take an appropriate steps to solved any problem regarding the implementation of ICT  application in schools.	1. What are the importance’s of ICT application in teaching and learning? 2. How to improve teachers skill in using ICT especially in the classroom? 3. What are the issues that arises when the government want to integrate ICT application in school? 4. What is the challenges and effect in using ICT as a medium of teaching and learning in the school?	1. Refer to the books in the library to find any information that related about issues and challenges in integrating ICT in teaching and learning in our Malaysian schools. 2. Refer to previous tesis, journal or articles regarding on this topic. 3. By searching an information in the internet sources.

 SYNTHESIZE PHASE:

ICT is an acronym that stands for Information Communications Technology. ICT education is basically government’s efforts to teach its current and emerging citizens a valuable knowledge and skills around computing and communications devices, software that operates them, applications that run on them and systems that are built with them. The main aim of ICT in education means implementing of ICT equipment and tools in teaching and learning process as a media and methodology. The purpose of ICT in education is generally to familiarize students with the use and workings of computers, and related social and ethical issues.

The use of ICT in teaching and learning provides opportunities for students to learn effectively with minimal guidance. ICT act as a tools in helping teacher during class lessons and also tools for students to perform independent learning and exploration. Using ICT would enhance students' understanding of a concept through imagination and simulation. The use of graphics, illustrations, and what form of a diagram can be used to increase the effectiveness of learning. In other words, teachers can deliver knowledge more easily and interesting through the available programs on ICT’s tools.

Besides, ICT also can become tools to enable the student to access information which hard to come by. Before the revolution of education by using ICT, students face difficulty in obtaining the references and information about their course and assignment because the information in our country is limited and the sources for that information are hard to find. Limited of information cause the students  to spend more time, energy and money just to find the reference by searching the materials in the libraries throughout Malaysia. But today we can explore a lot of information within and outside the country only with the use of ICT as a medium of searching.

However, one of the issues that arise in integrating the ICT project into schools is the lacks of informed leadership to handle this ICT projects in schools. Many schools leaders that play in important part in carrying this ICT project into their schools fail to have the required skills and understanding of the ICT to implement this ICT in education at their schools. Therefore they struggle to build both human and technical resources’ necessary to achieve the ICT outcomes in their schools.

Another issue that arise in integrating ICT in teaching and learning is the equity issue. Although the government has spent a lot of effort in building the ICT infrastructures at the rural area, there a still significant digital gap that exists among students in rural and urban area. This inequalities exist because students in rural area usually come from poor families ,low achiever, and still weak in English. Therefore they cannot follow the teaching and learning in using ICT efficiently. Another factor is the quality of infrastructure in rural area is not as advanced like the urban area, example like the internet connections, therefore the teachers in the rural area cannot fully use ICT in teaching and this cause the teaching to be a bit ineffective.

Other than that there are also issue where the teachers that are familiar and have adequate skills to use ICT but they does not use them in their teaching process. The teachers prefer to use the conventional ways of teaching by using chalk and board. They are too attached to the old ways and feel more comfortable with it. They feel that they can focus in what they can do best and save time because if they want to use ICT in teaching they must learn and create many things to suite ICT ways of teaching.

        In overall, there are several challenges that our government should overcome to ensure this programmed give a positive impacts. First of all, a rigorous analysis of the present state of the educational system. ICT-based interventions must take into account the current institutional practices and arrangements. Specifically, drivers and barriers for ICT purposed need to be identified, including those related to curriculum ,pedagogy, infrastructure, capacity-building, language ,content, and financing