25,000 Students in Terengganu Equipped with INTEL-Powered Classmate PCs

Kuala Terengganu, May 26, 2009 – The Terengganu State Government, Top IT Industries Sdn Bhd and Intel Malaysia today launched the “Projek Buku Elektronik” which will deploy 25,000 Intel-powered Classmate PCs to year-five pupils attending Terengganu schools. The Projek Buku Elekronik is the brainchild of the Terengganu State Government and represents a first step towards harnessing the benefits of technology to make education more efficient by delivering the school curriculum in a digitized format as an alternative to heavy textbooks. 

The project is also part of the State government’s ongoing effort to enhance the quality of education through direct ownership of portable PC devices and IT-based learning, thus injecting renewed enthusiasm for learning in the classroom and at home. “Projek Buku Elektronik is a bold first step the State Government is taking, and it will be the catalyst for a new chapter in Malaysia’s education curriculum. We strongly believe ICT plays a very important role in supporting the development of human capital and we are optimistic that the use of Intel-powered Classmate PCs in the classroom will have a positive impact on the critical thinking, communication and digital literacy skills of students,” said YAB Datuk Ahmad Said, the Menteri Besar of Terengganu.

“The launch of Projek Buku Elektronik by the Terengganu state government is a strong proof point that we are a step closer towards realizing the National IT Agenda by cultivating 21st Century learning, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills amongst the younger generation. At Intel, we believe that a solid foundation in education can be a springboard to a better future,” said Ryaz Patel, Intel Malaysia’s Country Manager.

In addition to deploying Intel-powered Classmate PCs, Intel will also collaborate with the Terengganu State Government to improve education in the classroom through the use of other innovative technologies and education programs such as the Intel 1:1 E-Learning project.

In December 2008, the Terengganu State Government, Top IT Industries Sdn Bhd and Intel Malaysia had signed a Memorandum of Understanding to deploy Intel-powered Classmate PCs to Year Five pupils in Terengganu schools. The first shipment of Classmate PCs arrived from Taiwan approximately three weeks ago and will now be distributed to the first batch of year-five pupils by the end of May. The deployment exercise will be undertaken by Top IT Industries Sdn Bhd, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Terengganu State Government.

E-Learning: The Future Trend

The internet is the largest source of information in the whole world and whatever your needs the internet can provide. What started as a bubble has soon become a massive tidal wave and online education is one of the areas that is still increasing, probable more than ever before.

You can shop online, watch TV online, book your holidays online and even do your banking online. There are no boundaries to learning when using the internet. There are no travel costs involved with online education and no travel time whatsoever.

Some e learning programme provides interactive learning methods that indeed attract students without the burden of heavy textbooks. The paradigm shift from text books to e-books has very much to with the development of Information Technology over the past decade. The fact that computers are more affordable and the internet is more accessible, it is no longer a luxury to own one. As a matter of fact, it would soon be a necessity if you do want to live in the dinosaur age without a computer at home.

Singapore have started giving students iPads to replace the use of textbooks and desktop PCs for their studies. Nanyang Girls High School has spent S$135,000 (about $100,000) to buy 150 iPads for 140 students and 10 teachers in a pilot project. Users connect to the Internet using the tablet, and download books and course material.

Now let’s take a journey way back to 1990. Remember the time when hand phone make its first intro into the market. At that time it would be a true luxury to own one, a status symbol. It’s okay if you do not own a hand phone because it’s not a necessity and your life goes on with or without it. Moreover, most of your friends don’t have one, so it really doesn’t matter. Fast forward to 2010, how many people that you know that DOES NOT own a hand phone? You get the idea now.

Most parents had the problem with their kids spending too much time on the computer with online games and social networking websites. It would be a good idea to introduce their children with an interactive e learning programme as an alternative learning tool.

25,000 students in Terengganu are equipped with
INTEL-powered  PCs

By 2012, the Malaysian government is targeting for 100% smart schools in which all the primary and secondary school would be equipped with computer labs. And in the 9th Malaysian plan, 150 million is allocated for the development of e-learning. In fact, quite a number of schools already using computer as part of their teaching tools. E learning is going to be the trend of the future whether we like it or not (fast forward 20 years from now).

Why Your Child Fail to Score? Understand "Why" Before You "Shout" at them!

Understand "Why" Before You "Shout" at them!

How do you help your child who is struggling academically? Before we find the solution, let’s take a look at the main reasons that probably causes your child to struggle in the first place.

Lack of Parental Involvement

Studies have shown that children are more motivated to succeed if parents are aware of their academic development. The three way communication has to exist between parent, teachers and the student. Parents should play a more active role by asking your child what he/she has learned at school each day and your child would be more than happy to feedback to you. The goal is to be interested in what your child is learning so that he/she will see the value in learning.

Don’t Skip Class

Academic excellence begins from school. There is no secret to achieving good results or success. It is simply hard work and understanding what is being taught in the classroom. So make sure that your child has a high attendance rate and don’t skip class unnecessarily.

Poor Study Skills

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Often students have no idea how to study. Many students do only Input Learning – reading, studying, memorizing & listening are only Input Learning – that is why students get average marks. The key to accomplish good grades is Output Learning™ – the ability to retrieve and apply what you have studied or learnt. The key to here is applying what your child has learned at school. This could be achieved by encouraging your child to do short regular exercise and provides instant Output Learning to access your child’s level of understanding of a particular topic taught in school.

Lack of Motivation

Motivation is important to help your child achieve success and confidence in studies. Reinforce the important of studies to your child and be persistent. You need to use affirmative sentences in order to let your child understand the importance of education. Don’t shout or yell or even criticize your child. It will only de-motivate him/her from study. Praise him/her when they do well and encourage them to try harder to excel. Remember that you too will have to sacrifice a lot when your child is studying. Unless you yourself don’t portray a good sign of sincerity, your child would not understand its importance.



Find out how to help your children to study effectively and score A without stressing them off!

Solutions to Lead Your Child to Score A!

Is Your Child Still Using The Old Method Of Studying Like Reading Through Thick Textbooks And Struggling To Memorize The Entire Contents?

Find Out How A Weak Student Can Score 8As in PMR Examination!

Are you having the same problems most parents are facing?

• Not able to appraise your child’s academic progress?
• Too busy to monitor or supervise your child’s revision or homework?
• You only know your child’s result when they bring home report card?
• Not satisfied with exam results?

Find your solution with Score A Programme

The key to accomplish good grades is Output Learning™ – the ability to retrieve and apply what you have studied or learnt. Many students do only Input Learning – reading, studying, memorising & listening are only Input Learning – that is why students get average marks.

To excel, your children need Output Learning™. Discover how we coach your children using Output Learning™ techniques.

We have invested four years of research and development into this ultimate Output Learning™ tool that has been carefully designed to be in line with the school curriculum set by the Ministry of Education.

We will help and guide your children to – BE EXAM READY & SCORE A’s and endeavour the impossible to improve their work. Practice makes perfect. The will to succeed is important but what’s even more important is… the will to prepare. Come examination day, your children will sail through the challenge with confidence and Score A’s.

Score A Programme is 100% according to the syllabus of the Malaysian Ministry of Education

Primary School (Std 1 – 6) Malay English Mathematics (English & Chinese) Science (English & Chinese) Chinese Tamil

Secondary School (Form 1 – 3) Malay English Mathematics (English & Chinese) Science (English & Chinese) Chinese History Geography

Form 4 and Form 5

Art Stream English Mathematics History Science Commerce Principles of Account Economics

Science Stream English Mathematics History Physics Chemistry Biology

Unique Features of Score A

eTopic™

A revision module that allows students do short regular exercises and provides instant Output Learning to assess a student’s level of understanding of a particular topic taught in school. Students can select a particular topic taught in class that day and instantly find out if they have understood what they have learnt and review their understanding of that topic. Parents will be able to monitor their children’s academic progress and help them identify their children’s strength and weaknesses so that timely measures can be taken to correct any shortcomings.

With eTopic, answers are corrected instantly to allow the student to learn from the wrong answers. Each question allows the student four attempts to find the right answer. Each attempt that is incorrect will have 1/3 point deducted, and when the wrong answer is selected, the student will be informed instantly, thus “forcing” the student to re-read the question before his or her 2nd, 3rd or 4th attempts. This instills the habit of reading the question carefully and understanding it before attempting an answer.

eAssessment™

Carefully designed to allow your children do exercises as often as they want and provides instant Output Learning to assess your children’s understanding of a particular subject taught in school. Your children can select a subject at any one time and instantly find out if they have understood what they have learnt and review their understanding of that subject. As parents, you will then be able to identify your child’s strength and weaknesses so that timely measures can be taken to correct any shortcomings before the actual examinations.

eSchema

eSchema will provide the detailed explanation and solution to a particular question. It is very useful especially in the Mathematics subject as one need to understand on how to arrive to the correct answer. This provides an extra notes for revision and assist in the self study.

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eTrial Exam™

eTrail Exam module is designed to simulate actual exam environment for UPSR, PMR and SPM. It further enhance your children’s exam readiness.

This module will help your children condition themselves to the pressure of completing the exam in a specific amount of time allocated according to Examination Board’s Standards.

eTrial Exam™ was designed like an actual exam and the student will have to submit it for correction or grading after they have completed it. The grading is instant.

This module thus help and conditioned students to be confident, exam ready and score A’s.

ePast Year Exam™

Allows students sitting for national examinations to practice on actual past years’ examination papers. These are actual UPSR, PMR and SPM examination papers set by the Ministry of Education and is made possible through our affiliationship with Cerdik Publications Sdn Bhd, who has been given the exclusive rights by the Ministry of Education to publish and distribute past years’ examination papers. Each exam paper is set exactly the same as the actual examination paper format and students have the options to select questions either by “year” or by “random” and have to complete all exercises within the time allocated. This exclusive and invaluable feature allows students countless examination practices thus helps and condition students to be exam ready and Score A’s in the real examinations.

eProgress™

A monitoring chart that allows parents keep track of their children’s performances on eTopic. This feature is an effective monitoring tool that is designed to keep parents informed of their children’s work schedule, ensuring parents that their children eTopic exercises are done and completed accordingly. Parents would be updated on the number of attempts their children has done on each topic, thus specifically highlighting the “difficult topics” faced by their children. This information will help parents identify specific topics in a subject that their children have difficulties in, instead of generalising and categorising weaknesses by subjects.

eNotes

e Notes are collection of short notes for a particular topic from expert teacher. It entails the concept of mind mapping for easy understanding and key points of a topic. Thus, relieves the student’s burden of having to go through thick textbook. Makes learning effective and fun.

eDictionary™

To further help student better understand questions in English, we provide an eDictionary to help define or explain the meaning of any words in question. At the same time, this will help students learn English while preparing for exams.

eReport Card™ (Online and sms)

A MUST HAVE feature for any concerned parents. It records all your children’s output learning sessions, be it eAssessment or eTrial Exam.

This feature gives parents unprecedented 1st hand knowledge of their children’s strong and weak subjects. It records and displays your children’s average scores for each subject for that month. You can also check on previous months’ results to compare the difference.

Click on “More” & it will display the actual score of each output learning exercises.

Furthermore, the eReport Card™ records the last 10 completed eAssessment™ or eTrial Exam™ to give you a review of their performances & identify weakness so that timely measures can be taken to correct whatever deficiency before the actual exam takes place.

Nationwide Honours Roll

Students who achieved high scores in eAssessment will have their names published in the Top 100 Students Nationwide Honours Roll Listing. This provides a healthy competition and encourage students to strive harder in order for their name to appear in the Top 100 Students List.

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Special Recognition

Cikgu Rokiah Alias Former Principal of Kolej Tunku Kursiah (TKC) Seremban, N.Sembilan (1998 – 2005) Outstanding Principal of Malaysia “This is a really great programme! Every parent should subscribe to Score A if you want your child to achieve excellent result in examintaion. I am proud with Score A and has seen many students achieved academic success with this programme. If they can do it, you can do it too!”

Her conclusion for Score A Programme:

1. Complements Malaysia education system.
2. Enable parents to monitor their children’s academic performance. Develop a three way communication between student, parent & teacher.
3. “Prime Time” – The optimum time for studies are different for each student. Score A programme is accessible anytime, anywhere.
4. Time Management – Students will get accustomed and be better disciplined to manage their own time and be ready to face exam.
5. Catalyst – Students will continue to improve their performance each time before the actual exam.
6. Personal & Emotional Bonding – Promote closer relationship between parents and their children. Children are more motivated to succeed if parents are aware of their academic development.

Dr Shukri AbdullahMotivation and Learning Strategies Expert Malaysia.“This programme not only meets the requirement of output learning but at the same time complements the input learning, thus help students to prepare before class and after class exercise. It is especially necessary for students in preparation of their exam”.

The Secret of Outstanding Students

The S.A.T.U Concept:

• Sedia – Before going to class, gain an insight of the topic with e Notes.
• Awal – Attempt e Topic for early preparation.
• Tumpu 100% – In class, focus your attention and ask teacher for better understanding.
• Ulangkaji – Back from school, do your revision with E Topic. Before the exam, practice with e Assessment, e Trial Exam and e Past Year Exam Parents should also monitor the development of children through e Report Card.

WHAT IS THE COST?

1 Set Portal (Starter Pack)Very affordable at RM796 ONLY!!! Subscription for 1 year For 2nd child = FREE For 3rd, 4th, 5th child : Additional RM 50 per child RM796/ 12 months / 2 children = RM33/ 30 days = RM1.10 per day NEXT TOP UP RM348 for another 6 months for all children in the family RM348/ 6 months / 2 children = RM29/ 30 days = RM0.96 per day

STEP 1: Please submit the Score A Programme Portal Activation Order Form.

STEP 2: We will process your application and will send you an email notification on the payment advice.

STEP 3: Your portal will be activated once payment received.