The digital education policy is in its final stage of development. The Ministry of Education has been engaging and collaborating with the National Education Advisory Council to refine the final draft of the policy.
The ministry continues to champion digital education and aims to improve digital literacy among students, as well as digital competencies among teachers.
Once the final draft has been approved, the ministry will prepare and submit the policy document to the Cabinet for approval,” he said in response to StarEdu. Digital education, which became a necessity during the Covid-19 pandemic, was a new challenge for teachers, acknowledged the president of the National Union of the Teaching Profession (NUTP), Aminuddin Awang.
Many teachers, especially those from the older generation, faced difficulties in conducting online teaching. Students without digital devices and internet access made it even more difficult. The teachers learned through trial and error. It was only then that we realized that our country’s education system was behind others when it came to digital learning,” he said.
During the training, teachers, said Universiti Malaya College of Education Senior Lecturer and Professor and Teacher Trainer Dr. Zuwati Hasim, are exposed to the use of technology and how to develop teaching materials that suit their students. .
With enough time and equipment, under any circumstances, teachers can explore and adopt the right teaching tools to teach and learn, he said. With the advent of technology, they were able to easily manage their planning time, gather resources, design teaching materials, and build learning tasks.
Going forward, teacher education must continue to focus on supporting digital learning and incorporating technology into the classroom. This can include training on specific tools and platforms, as well as strategies for creating effective digital lesson plans and engaging students in online environments. Engagement with learning seems to be a struggle that many teachers or teaching staff have with online teaching,” she said.
Although three years have passed since the start of the pandemic, the ministry has not done much to equip teachers with the necessary skills for digital education, Aminuddin said.
There have been some online courses from time to time, but these haven’t had much of an impact, he said. For digital education to be successful, schools across the country must be equipped with devices and access to the Internet. If we can’t even do the basic things, it will be difficult for us to move forward.
What we see in schools now are poorly maintained computer labs and broken or outdated computers. Hopefully the digital education policy can raise the level of digital education in the country,” he said. On March 20, Education Director General Datuk Pkharuddin Ghazali said that the policy direction is towards digital education so that children can have more interesting learning resources that can have a great impact on their understanding.
It was previously reported that the policy would cover the entire learning ecosystem, so it goes beyond schools, higher education institutions, parents and teachers; it involves infrastructure, infostructure and the entire community.
The policy is about the innovative use of digital technology to produce a generation that is not only digitally literate, but also digitally fluent.
0 Comments