Thursday, 27 September 2012

COMPUTER SCREENS ARE FLASHING RURAL




By : SHALINA ROSENI

OSINDAK or Sinda, information technology is shining on Tenom, a rural district deep in the interior of Sabah about 194 km (120.5 miles) away from Kota Kinabalu. Sinda in Murut means shine.

Tenom is home to about 60,000 people; half of whom are indigenous Muruts. A two-day Sinda-iT programme last week brought young and old together all eager to know what computer technology has in store for them.

Sinda-iT comes under the Aramai-iT programme of the ministry of resource development and information technology. It is targeted at youth aged between 10 and 18 who form about a quarter of Tenom’s population.

Some 250 of them from four villages learnt not only how to play computer games, but they got a thrill of working with Microsoft Office software, knowing the outside world at a click of a mouse and getting a feel of gadgets such as digital cameras, iPads and iPhones. (Insight Sabah)

9 comments:

  1. Kerajaan mula mendedahkan kepada rakyat pendalamana akan kepentingan pengetahuan ICT ini.

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  2. Technology has immense power to transform learning in and beyond the classroom and educational decision-makers need to address, understand and define the relationship between technology and improved learning

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    1. ICT offers a host of different tools to demonstrate learning suitable for divergent and different intelligences

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  3. kementerian Pembangunan Sumber dan Kemajuan Teknologi Maklumat Sabah hampir mencapai misi dan visinya untuk melebarkan ilmu pengetahuan Teknologi Maklumat (IT) kepada masyarakat luar bandar khususnya daerah Tenom tanpa mengira faktor usia penuntutnya.

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  4. Kursus ICT jangka pendek yang diadakan setiap hujung minggu (sabtu & ahad) diadakan secara percuma telah berjaya melahirkan seramai lebih seribu orang yang berpengetahuan asas dalam penggunaan ICT (Information Communication Technology) selepas menghadiri kursus tersebut di mana dahulunya mereka dikategorikan sebagai ‘buta ICT’.

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  5. jurulatih kursus tersebut Nelly Ambrose menjelaskan bahawa subjek yang diajarnya seperti Open Office Impress, Facebook & Twitters (meliputi portal dan email), Open Office Calcullator dan Open Office Writer, tidak menjadi kerumitan bagi para peserta kursus untuk menguasainya.

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  6. Nelly yang berkelulusan dalam bidang Sains Komputer dan Teknologi Maklumat dari Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) optimis purata penguasaan para peserta dalam empat subjek penting itu dianggarkan kira-kira 80 peratus, memandangkan minat dan kecenderungan para pelajar itu mengikuti kursus tersebut.

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  7. beberapa pelajar telah memberi maklumbalas yang positif terhadap kursus tersebut meskipun pun ia diadakan secara singkat namun ia cukup memberikan pendedahan meluas kepentingan bidang ICT dalam era dunia teknologi ketika ini.

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