REACTION ON THE ICT's of the 5 COUNTRIES

ICT provides support to learning, teaching, administrative and management processes within the educational system. Many of the progressive countries all over the world uses ICT, mostly in education.


In Malaysia, they nurture a well-rounded students who are intellectually, mentally, emotionally, and physically fit in any status. Providing ICT to all students so that it can be used as a tool to bridge to divide between Malaysian schools from other schools from different countries, using ICT as a tool to teach and learn by incorporating it in a subject or setting it up as a separate subject, and making use of ICT to enhance the efficiency and productivity of management systems. Hence, the fact that offering training for teachers and school administrators was an hardest part of implementing the ICT project, many of the teachers received training on an ICT, and the majority of teachers were not capable of making educational courseware. Only a few teachers who were able to develop a fun and effective curriculum by incorporating ICT in their classes. In short, although the government in Malaysia strived to boost the use of ICT, it did not have much impact on the course of teaching.


In Australia, it is known for its successful distance education programs to provide education to those who live in remote places in the outback.Improved learning outcomes for students, supported by educational leaders, teachers and administration staff with the skills and motivation to use ICTs effectively.

In Hongkong, they established the 5-year strategy in was launched amid a number of curriculum initiatives, most of which inevitably exerted their influences on one another, to varying degrees though. Many of them believes that it can enhance and extend mathematics learning experience, and encourage active student participation in exploratory and investigative activities and it can lead to a new teaching strategies.

In New Zealand, they implemented it with the cooperation with their government and the education organizations. With that, they want to be recognized, a developing a more learner-centred service culture where education agencies and organizations focus on the outcome rather than the technology, and a learner that is more informed on his/her future on decision making with other people.

In Singapore's Info-Communication Technology (ICT) sector is a key contributor to its economy. Revenues for the ICT industry grew by nearly 9 percent to almost S$38 billion in 2005. The aim for the industry is to use technology to enable the government to serve citizen and business more efficiently and effectively. National plans are form to transform the economy and society using the use of technology.




Education in developing countries takes place in under circumstances that is different also with other countries. As what I read in an article, the Philippines is a developing country in Southeast Asia whose educational system here shares a many lack of problems and limitations as those with the developing nations all over the archipelago. Some schools here especially in the mountain areas or even in the cities, have lack of chairs, tables, blackboards, books and other learning equipment and even their learning environment is not capable in learning. For me, there is a great faith that these technologies especially nowadays that some Filipinos are enriching or much aware of it, I think that ICT can be effective because it can improve the teaching and learning process of the students because really, education is very important. The government have initiated this programs to provide schools wit computers, internet, and a teacher training. But there is a lack of dataon schools use in ICT. So, it can be lead on waste: waste of time, money, and professionals or teachers. And also, there is a need of training of teachers on computers and the familiarization of the ICT curriculum before they can teach it to the students.
These problem can be a result of conflict of the teaching and learning in the Philippine schools, I hope that it can be the same as the other countries.



References:

http://www.ictineducation.org

http://wiki.nus.edu.sg

unescobkk.org/education/ict/

http://www.tutor2u.net/business/ict/intro