Bincangkan ICT sebagai alat untuk membantu pengajaran pembelajaran matematik sekolah rendah.

Sejak dua abad yang lalu, Sistem pendidikan di Malaysia mengalami pelbagai perubahan yang amat pesat sekali. Pelbagai kaedah baru telah diperkenalkan serta digunakan supaya pengajaran seseorang
to share materials on the internet, and to post important announcement, events and results. 4 Provide more teaching materials to teachers, e.g. cds, PowerPoint to replace textbook/ hand notes. 5 Organize more courses and seminars to help to change the mindset of the teachers by exposing them to current development in the ICT field.

On top of the useful ideas given, most of the teachers responded to this survey have also suggested one way he/she thinks teacher can be more involved with ICT decisions within their school and district as recorded in Table 11.
Table 11: Teachers ideas on how they can get more involved with ICT decisions 1 Provide suggestion box and suggestions are to be read by principals during staff meetings and proper actions to be taken. 2 Questions and answers about ICT through e-mails; Discussion through school web site 3 Organize staff development programs regularly, sharing skills and ideas among staffs. 4 Conduct monthly meetings on discussions regarding ICT use (ATK ICT) 5 Teachers cooperate among themselves within school and district and always discuss together.

Teachers were also asked to indicate the areas where they would like to learn more about, many of them citing more than one aspect. The numbers of responses for each item are as follows:
Table 12: Areas where teachers would like to learn more about. Making charts and graph, enhancing documents with pictures. 121 Getting lesson plans and activities form electronic/internet sources 113 Making slide presentations to share information with students. 105 Using internet to participate in discussions about teaching and learning. 105 Creating a website to share classroom activities. 102 Getting information and research about best practices for teaching. 100 Using electronic encyclopedias and dictionaries. 99 Sharing documents electronically with others. 93
Response (%) Very Important Somewhat Important Neutral Somewhat Unimportant Unimportant at all NR School-based professional development course 28.3 51.4 13.7 2.8 0.0 3.8 ICT seminars/ conferences 25.0 38.7 25.5 5.2 0.0 5.7 Release time for exploring 23.6 45.8 20.3 5.2 0.5 4.7 School-based ICT support personnel 48.6 35.4 10.8 0.5 0.5 3.8

RECOMMENDATION In response to the above findings and to promote the level of ICT usage at school, the researchers have put forward a proposal to develop a statewide website for all government school teachers in Sarawak namely the e-Blackboard. The responses of the teachers to this suggestion were documented in Table 13. Overall, 75% of the respondents considered this suggestion as suitable to their need.
Table 13: Teachers perception on the proposed statewide website, e-Blackboard for government school teachers in Sarawak

Very suitable Suitable Somewhat suitable Not suitable at all No comments