SIMBOLIK.....NASRUN
menekan butang simbolik perasmian seminar sambil diperhatikan Dr.Mingu Jumaan (kanan)
dan Arjuna (kiri).
Oleh : RIZAL ABDULLAH
LAHAD DATU : Penerapan
inovasi dalam sistem penyampaian perkhidmatan menerusi penggunaan secara meluas
teknologi maklumat dan komunikasi (ICT) dapat melahirkan warga kerja yang
kreatif dan inovatif.
Pembantu Menteri kepada
Ketua Menteri, Datuk Datu Nasrun Datu Mansur berkata, penjawat awam perlu
membudayakan penggunaan ICT dalam tugasan harian.
“Pengunaan ICT yang optima
bukan sahaja mampu menghasilkan perkhidmatan yang berkualiti malah hasil yang
diterima lebih cepat, tepat dan berkesan bagi memenuhi keperluan pelanggan,”
kata beliau yang juga Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri Lahad Datu.
“Pembudayaan inovasi
memerlukan transformasi minda dan sikap bagi membolehkan konsep kreativiti dan
inovasi menjadi sebahagian daripada budaya hidup dan kerja warga setiap jabatan
kerajaan,” katanya.
Beliau berkata demikian
sempena perasmian Seminar ICT Sektor Awam Negeri Sabah 2012 bagi wilayah Lahad
Datu anjuran Jabatan Perkhidmatan Komputer Negeri (JPKN) bertempat di Hotel My
Inn, dekat sini, kelmarin.
“Inovasi dan integriti amat
penting dalam perkhidmatan awam dan menjadi faktor penggalak kepada warga kerja
jabatan untuk terus berinisiatif dan beritizam. Para penjawat awam harus
bekerja dalam satu pasukan, berkongsi wawasan yang sama, komited, berdedikasi,
bertanggungjawab dan sentiasa mempunyai keazaman untuk meningkatkan
kecemerlangan perkhidmatan dalam memastikan seruan Perdana Menteri dapat
dijayakan dengan cemerlang,” katanya.
KENANGAN....Dr
Mingu menyampaikan cenderakenangan kepada Nasrun sambil diperhatikan Arjuna.
HADIR.....Sebahagian
peserta yang hadir sedang khusyuk memberikan tumpuan.
Menurut Nasrun, Kerajaan
Negeri Sabah melalui JPKN telah banyak membangunkan sistem-sistem aplikasi
berasaskan web yang boleh diakses secara atas talian untuk digunapakai oleh
penjawat awam negeri, antaranya seperti Sistem Maklumat Sumber Manusia
(SM2),Sistem eCuti,Sistem Izin-Seminar dan banyak lagi.
“Ini membuktikan kepimpinan
Ketua Menteri Datuk Seri Musa Aman dan Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Tun
Razak amat menekankan kemajuan dan pembangunan ICT dikalangan penjawat awam
agar dapat memaksimakan perkhidmatan yang berkualiti kepada rakyat,” jelasnya.
Seminar yang julung kali
diadakan JPKN cawangan Lahad Datu ini melibatkan penjawat awam daripada 42 buah
jabatan kerajaan dari tiga buah daerah iaitu Lahad Datu, Kinabatangan dan
Tungku dengan jumlah peserta seramai 120 orang terdiri daripada ketua-ketua
jabatan.
Turut hadir, Pengarah JPKN,
Dr.Mingu Jumaan, Pegawai Daerah Lahad Datu, Zulkifli Nasir dan Ketua JPKN
cawangan Lahad Datu, Arjuna Abdullah.
Innovation and integrity is important in the public service sector. Hope that the civil servants will take this advice to heart.
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Hope that the civil servants can improve their skills in ICT so that they can provide better quality service to the people.
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pengetahuan ICT penting pada masa ini, jadi tingkatkan pengetahuan mengenai ICT.
ReplyDeleteLebih meluas pengetahuan dan kemahiran dalam ICT lebih bagus.
DeleteICT memudahkan perkerjaan kita seharian. Maka kita harus berbangga dengan kecanggihan ICT yang ada sekarang ini.
ReplyDeletePada zaman moden ini pengetahuan ICT amatlah penting sekali.
ReplyDeletePenggunaan ICT sekarang semakin meluas.
ReplyDeletesaya harap, dalam masa beberapa tahun dari sekarang, ICT bukan lagi sesuatu yang janggal di negeri ini bukan sahaja dikalangan pelajar, malah ibubapa dan juga penduduk2 di kawasan pedalaman..
ReplyDeleteIN today’s ICT-enabled learning ecology, conventional training programmes to produce technically competent teachers are no longer adequate. To learn and work effectively in an increasingly information-rich environment, students and teachers must use ICT effectively.
ReplyDeleteThe necessity for this skill has already been proposed, rationalised and justified many times over in expert journals globally.
ReplyDeleteTeachers are learning to use the computer more effectively to enhance their teaching skills.
Malaysian students have been trained and empowered to achieve important ICT skills so that learning will be self-directed, self-paced and self-accessed.
ReplyDeleteTeachers are responsible for establishing the classroom environment and preparing the learning opportunities that facilitate students’ use of technology to learn, communicate and develop knowledge. But how well are they equipped to provide their students with these skills and opportunities?
ReplyDeleteConventionally, ICT competencies refers to the sets of basic knowledge and skills that are exhibited by a user in a digital era. Hence, various agencies within the Education Ministry have conducted training courses to equip teachers with ICT knowledge and skills.
ReplyDeleteConcurrently, teachers have also been trained at the school, district or state level, and some have learnt ICT skills on their own as part of their on-the-job-responsibilities.
ReplyDeleteThrough these training programmes, the Ministry envisages that all teachers will move forward from being “computer literate” to actual users of supporting software developed by various agencies, and even capable of planning and designing effective constructive environments for students.
ReplyDeleteThe question now is: what is the impact of these training initiatives among teachers? Are our main stakeholders – the students – achieving expected outcomes? Are the training models used adequate to meet today’s demands?
ReplyDeleteWe propose that conventional training models be reviewed and transformed in alignment with research findings and current global demands for new learning environments.
ReplyDeleteTo be equipped with technical ICT skills and knowledge is the key to effective implementation of ICT in teaching and learning, but are these sufficient to address the current ecology of ICT-enabled learning?
ReplyDeleteWe surmise that training standards are as much about knowledge of curriculum and pedagogy, reflecting a shift in emphasis away from ICT as content to ICT as a tool.
ReplyDeleteA national ICT Competency Standard may serve as a reference point for development of ICT training programmes. This standard can ensure that all the trainings are of high quality and are relevant to the specific needs of teachers and students.
ReplyDeleteThe following categories of ICT competencies and performance indicators should be considered as benchmarks for all ICT Training Programmes for Malaysian teachers:
ReplyDelete·Knowledge and Skills in basic ICT tools, including productivity applications software, web browsers and learning management system.
·Planning and Designing Rich-Learning Environments to support student-centred learning among students of diverse needs, including the use of collaboration and communication tools to support problem-based learning for a community of learners (COL).
·Pedagogical strategies to develop innovative ways to encourage students’ critical and creative thinking skills, including preparation of tools, rules and roles for students in a community of learners.
·Application of ICT-enabled Assessment and Evaluation to maximise learning through self-assessments of problem-solving, communication, collaboration, creative & communication skills.
·ICT-enabled Continuing Lifelong Professional Learning, Practice and Productivity for Just-in-time learning, including active participation in knowledge communities, sustaining own lifelong development and contributing to other COL.
·Ethics and moral values surrounding the educational use of computers and software applications.
We advocate the establishment of a Malaysian ICT competency benchmark that will govern and direct the realisation of a transformed cohort of teachers who could contribute to higher quality education — and in turn produce a higher quality competitive workforce for the wellbeing and advancement of our economic and social development.
ReplyDeleteOne of the core skills surrounding this aforementioned issue is an ability that is directly related to the rapid expansion of the World Wide Web (WWW). It requires teachers and students with superior competencies in using ICT to sieve through and choose relevant information that is available on the vast sum of human knowledge that is represented and available on the Web.
ReplyDeleteThe WWW had long ago reached singularity where information is infinite. Where Web 1.0 was about information storage, we are now in Web 2.0 where collaboration and global projects are the norm (think Facebook) and fast heading into Web 3.0, where individual IQs will no longer matter. What will instead matter will be collective intelligences, which bring together the collective IQs of teams of global citizens to work on decision making processes that has at its base a collective IQ amounting to millions of points.
ReplyDeleteIs Malaysia ready for this? Are our teachers and students geared for this radical shift in thought processes and approaches to learning and problem solving? What innovation is taking place in our schools and ministry that will create opportunities for exploring and developing new, unheard of skills that will soon become essential to not just the levelling up of our talents, but to sheer survival in new marketplaces?
ReplyDeleteWhere is Malaysia in the blossoming of new areas of studies in the fields of NBIC (Nano, Bio, Info and Cogno) technologies? In a world where these new areas of studies are being presented at primary and sometimes preschool levels, where does Malaysia stand in the complete overhaul and transformation of its curriculum?
ReplyDeleteLearning the new rules, new roles and new ways of a learning environment that go hand-in-hand with ICT integration requires that teachers have opportunities to participate in an extended process of professional development.
ReplyDeleteTeachers need time to acquire technology skills and develop new teaching strategies for integrating ICT into the classroom.
ReplyDeleteAt present, except for occasional in-service programmes, teachers often have no time built into the school day for their own professional development.
ReplyDeleteIn conclusion, it is important to ensure that all students have the opportunity to use ICT for student-centred projects. This is so that participation is enabled in complex, authentic tasks within a collaborative context and development of higher-order thinking skills will be developed and achieved.
ReplyDeleteICT that is used for deeper learning and that support a challenging curriculum will result in improved teaching and learning, increased student motivation and higher levels of student achievement.
ReplyDeleteAlthough there has been a strong push to have teachers trained and to supply educational software and hardware into the hands of teachers, many obstacles to implementation still exist.
ReplyDeleteEquipment may not be placed in easily accessible locations. Hardware and software often pose problems for teachers in the classroom, and just-in-time technical support is unavailable. Teachers may lack the time and the motivation to learn ICT skills. School administrators and the ministry must persevere to find time for teacher professional development especially with regards to the upgrading of ICT competencies for the realisation of the new learning landscape.
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