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Using technology in teaching Courtesy of By Laila Rahman
This was said by Datin Paduka Hajah Norsiah bte
Hj Mohd Daud, the Acting Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Education, as
the guest of honour during the launch of the national workshop for teachers
to introduce them to educational technology utilisation. The ceremony took place at the Seameo Voctech
Regional Centre yesterday. She added governments of all economic strata are
obliged to spend thousands of dollars each year on computer network and other
wide ranging peripheral technologies, needed to transform our traditional
chalk and talk classrooms into modern, productive and interactive e-education
environments.
She said they have established 20 to 40 networked
multimedia computer systems to each computer laboratory as well as Internet
connectivity in the primary and secondary schools. She hoped this workshop would further enhance the
pedagogical skills of their teachers so that technological advancement could
be fully exploited for the benefits of the present and future generations. She concluded it would be meaningful if ISESCO
could continue its efforts to address the matter for the common benefit of
all ISESCO member countries and in particular for the Muslim ummah.
He said the final phase of the workshop developed
an educational learning material incorporating the various teaching media
already taught and the learning material tested and refined to accommodate
the varying needs of teaching and learning lessons. The workshop was jointly organised by the
Ministry of Education, Islamic Educational Scientific and Cultural
Organisation (ISESCO) and Islamic Organisation of Medical Sciences. The
workshop is facilitated by Elhammi bin Haji Ahmad from The objectives of the workshop were to modernise the technological and experimental education curriculum, training of qualified staff capable of dealing with modern technology and acquisition by teachers in the member states of skills to help them work in an institution of applied technology.
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