The Implementation of Ict Integration in Malaysian Smart Schools
Wan Zah Wan Ali, Hajar Mohd · InTech eBooks · 2010
All the three schools are experiencing enormous pressure to adopt and promote technology innovations. They have not only learned to be familiarized to the ICT hardware and software but also the SSMS and TLM. Thus, this has caused strenuous pressure among teachers. They have to learn the computer skills, different pedagogical approaches and have to learn the system. The implementation of ICT integration in the school is very demanding on the teachers. However, this has not stopped some of the teachers to integrate ICT in their school. Sathiamoorthy (2001) carried out a study on Smart School using the Hall's Concerns-Based Adoption Model (CBAM). The finding showed that teachers' ability in managing Computer and their Level of Use (LoU) in Smart School were low. He found that 64.3 percent of teachers were clustered in the "Mechanical" user, Level III. The "Mechanical" user generally reflects lack of effective management and anticipation in day-to-day needs. It could thus be concluded that teachers were aware of the technology but had not utilise ICT fully in the classroom. The study was carried out in the year 2000 when the project was only its second year of implementation, while Smith (2001) stresses that evidence of change could only be