4. 1. A world class education system gives students the “right and
opportunity” to participate in school governance, and in constructing
the physical, social, and cognitive school environment.
- Before this, students have no say in their own learning.
-They participate in the development and construction of their
own learning and places of learning
- In a word, they are empowered to take ownership of their own
learning.
2. A world class education capitalizes on student engagement by giving
students a curriculum that is broad and flexible.
5. 3. A world class education system engages students in a sustained and disciplined
process of learning
- students are engaged in a learning process that asks them to develop,
review, evaluate and revise
4. A world class education system has a world orientation.
- its moves students and their learning beyond the walls of their classrooms
and even the borders of their country.
5. A world class education system develops the global competence in its students.
- provides opportunities for students to experience other countries and
cultures in engaging and relevant ways.
8. - The Malaysian Smart School is a learning
institution that has been systemically reinvented
in terms of teaching-learning practices and school
management in order to prepare children for the
Information Age
- The Smart School Project was one of the Malaysian
Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) flagships
*a time when large amounts of information are widely available to
many people, largely through computer technology
9. The objectives of the Smart School, which are based on
Malaysia's National Philosophy of Education, are as follows:
- To produce a thinking and technology-literate workforce.
- To democratise education
- To increase participation of stakeholders
- To provide all-round development of the individual
- To provide opportunities to enhance individual strengths
and abilities
10. - to produce a new generation of IT-literate Malaysians
who are :
•creative and innovative
• adapt with new technologies,
•able to access and manage information to enhance the
competitiveness and productivity of the economy
13. DEFINITION
“The knowledge based economy” is an
expression coined to describe trends in
advanced economies towards greater
dependence on knowledge, information and
high skill levels, and the increasing need for
ready access to all of these by the business
and public sectors.
- Organisation for EconomicCo-operation and Development
OECD, 2005, “The Measurement of Scientific andTechnological Activities:
Guidelines for Collecting and Interpreting Innovation Data: Oslo Manual,Third
Edition” prepared by the Working Party of National Experts on Scientific and
Technology Indicators, OECD, Paris, Para. 71.
14. The UK Department ofTrade
and Industry defined K Economy as a knowledge
driven economy in which the generation and
exploitation of knowledge play the predominant
role in the creation of wealth
(Economic Research
Services Department, 2000)
15.
16. Rationale of K- economy
1. To achieve sustainable rapid economic growth
- The knowledge based economy will complement efforts to
improve economy-wide productivity through enhancement in
TFP (Total Factory Productivity).
- The knowledge-based economy will also spawn new activities
for investment within existing industries as well as create new
industries.
- The introduction of high-technology and knowledge-intensive
production processes will offer new
investment opportunities within existing industries
17. 2. To sustain competitiveness
- Malaysia is facing increasing competition for its labour-
intensive and lower-end manufactured products from the
lower-wage and resource-rich developing economies such as
China, Indonesia andThailand
-Malaysia will need undertake productivity improvements in
traditional industries and at the same time, enhance its
technological and knowledge capabilities to move into the
midrange and higher-end products.
- It is also imperative for local industries to move
along the value chain into related upstream and downstream
activities
18. THE STAR
PM: Government to continue with policies
supporting knowledge-based economy
•The prime minister said, he believed in building a
knowledge-based economy as one way for Malaysia to achieve
sustainable growth and remain globally competitive
• He also mentioned that the government will focus on the
social impact of the policies, and be aware of the government
responsibility to ensure that the knowledge-based economy
does not widen disparities between various sections of our
society
19. KNOWLEDGE WORKER
-The term ‘knowledge worker’ describes someone who adds
value by processing existing information to create new
information that could be used to define and solve problems.
- Examples of knowledge workers include
lawyers, doctors, diplomats, law-makers, software
developers, managers and bankers.
- knowledge workers use their intellect to convert their ideas
into products, services, or processes
20. Knowledge workers are versatile, autonomous,
and highly skilled and are able to leverage and
build knowledge to produce useful action with
very strong and analytical skills
21. The importance of Knowledge workers
• Key to the growth of many economies
- for example, in biotechnology manufacturing, or in
precision farming," where the amount of fertilizer and
pesticides administered to a given crop are carefully monitored
using GPS devices in tractors“
22. • Knowledge workers tend to be closely aligned with the
organization's growth prospects
- Knowledge workers in management roles come up
with new strategies
• Firms with the highest degree and quality of knowledge work
tend to be the fastest-growing and most profitable
- for example, Microsoft is among the most profitable
organizations in the history of the planet
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Our current education still seeks to narrow the curriculum and make it rigid. A world-class education system has a broad, flexible curriculumthat can be individually tailored to the interests, talents, andabilities of each student-capitalizes= exploit
4. In simpler term, the school operates from a global perspective, not the narrow perspective of local community or even country.
Dr. Yong Zhao is an internationally known scholar, author, and speaker. His works focus on the implications of globalization and technology on education
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an economy that is directly basedon the production, distribution, and use ofknowledge and information
Total factory productivity
The upstream stage of the production process involves searching for and extracting raw materialsThe downstream stage in the production process involves processing the materials collected during the upstream stage into a finished productHigh end- A product that is one of the most expensive or advanced in a company's product range, or in the market as a whole