'Click & Surf' Instead Of 'Chalk & Talk'
By Azaraimy HH

Bandar Seri Begawan - Students in Brunei are encouraged to ‘click and surf’ the Internet in addition to the traditional way of the classroom's 'chalk and talk' as a technique to improve learning and add knowledge and skills to survive in a new economic and vibrant world.

Awg Hj Ismail bin Hj Zainal, chairman of Inforama 2007, in his speech during the Inforama Awards 2007 said teaching and learning nowadays should now be more innovative and creative.

"The Inlbrama Awards 2007 was held at this year's Inforama Camp at Berakas Secondary School. Present as the guest of honour was the Permanent Secretary- at the Ministry of Education, Dato Paduka Haji Shaikh Adnan bin Shaikh Mohammad.

"ICT", he said, "plays an important role not only to the public but more importantly in the deli very of knowledge to the students. The introduction of MOF3ITEL or Mobile Teaching and Learning using laptops can further enhance the use of ICT in classrooms."

The technique of 'chalk and talk', he added, that is using whitehoard and markers, will no longer be enough, saying that teachers and students will definitely get additional knowledge by surfing the Internet, apart from reading hooks, newspapers and magazines.

Earlier in his speech, he said that since the launching of Inforama 2007 in mid March earlier this year, a series of activities and competitions were carried out with the theme "Empowering Education Through 1CT".

All these activities and competitions were held at Sekolah Menengah Berakas.

‘Empowering Education through ICT' was chosen as the theme for this year's Inforama which is in line with MoE's strategic theme of 'Teaching and Leaming Excellence'.

He said one way that 'Teaching and Learning Excellence' can be achieved is through ICT.

Meanwhile, nine teams from three categories received their prizes for the Inforama Awards 2007 at the ceremony.

Inforama is organised in partnership with Brunei Shell Petroleum Sdn Bhd.

The competition was divided into four levels with Primary Schools competing in Level I, Secondary Schools in Level 11 and III while higher institutions and the public competed in Level IV. This year, the competition was participated by 124 schools.

Thirty-nine schools competed in the Level II and 18 schools battled it out in Level III. The competing schools comprised both government and non-government schools including JIS and ISB.

According to Hj Ismail, he was very impressed with the outcome of the competition and even went on to say that the quality of winners in the Level IV category was on par with that of BICTA.

The winning schools in the Level I category were SR HMJM Kiulap, Chung Hwa Middle School and SR HMS Sungai Hanching. Chung Hwa Middle School, St George's School and St Angela's School meanwhile were among the winners in the Level II category while SI George's School, Chung Hwa Middle School and Maktah Sains Paduka Seri Begawan Sultan were the top three schools in the level III category.  -- Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin

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