We are in the IT age... IT supposed to be making our job easier, saving more time for us.. the blah, blah the 'save-list' should be quite long.
I'm back being a Form Teacher after a long hiatus... we've a software for keying in marks... but instead of going paperless, I think we seem to be printing more papers. (And I thought we're supposed to lead the way in environmental preservation!) In order to get the marks from the subject teachers, each class teacher would be given a name list. Each class teacher gets about 20 pieces of such list.
We cannot get the subject teacher to key in his/her own subject because of low compliance... I put it to sheer 'tak kisah' attitude. So they solve the problem by using the paper name list to chase them. (See!! We also solve problems for the teachers.... not just our students!! LOL!) Then after getting the marks, the form teacher keys in the marks in; after which all the data would be tabulated and the results would be printed including the analysis. If the subject teachers does the keying in... jimat masa and kertas...lots of it. But efficiency is not something that is urgent here...
Anyway, I was just thinking of the wastage that can be prevented... 20 of pieces of name list for each class per test/exam. If you have 30 classes .. that would be 600 (1 1/2 ream) pieces of paper per test. 5 rounds of test/exams would bring the total to 3000 (7 1/2 reams). This negates the good that IT is supposed to bring...
The joke is, after all that sophistication, comes the redundant work. The class teacher then has to copy the marks (BY HAND!!!) into the Student's Individual Profile Cards. Another friend from another school had to plot out graphs for individual students manually for each subject! So much for going paperless!
Just as in the registration of SPM students....it's all done online. IT age! We've arrived!!! But for the past one week, the internet connection at work went kaput... so yours truly sit and wait by the computer everyday... not able to key in a single data. All because technology failed to work...... 8( So this morning when it came on, oh the rejoicing!!! Kah! Kah! Kah!
And oh ya! Did I forget to add... the online registration can only be done via IE? They forgot that there are other browsers like Firefox, Flock, Opera, Safari.... Nope! It just didn't cross their mind... Only one platform for us... and now that Microsoft has opted not to support Mac, yours truly has to go back to her IE on her Notebook to register the students.... Aiyah!!! I could comment some more about the online apps which is quite rigid.
And I've not even started my ramblings on Headcount.... another system to generate useless data...
Simple things made complicated, more wastage.... might as well go back to just paper and pen.
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I totally agree with you. It is supposed to be paperless in this IT age but we are using more papers cos we are not up to that standard. But thanks God our school teachers don't need to copy by hand into the students profile cards. We just print out after keying-in the marks. About Headcount I also think it is a waste of time and energy. Fill in so many forms namely HC1 to HC6, PM1 to PM3 for every subject just to find out which students need remedial and which are the bright students. We know our every single students very well without counting the head. But what to do? We need to present it for the officers who came for 'pemantauan'. That's why nowadays teachers are burdened with so many paper work and you know the statistics from teachers suffering from mental illnesses is increasing each year. I hope I'm not one of them.
Yup! Am aware different schools have slight variations of doing things... but the gist lebih kurang sama. And wastage also lebih kurang. To know which student needs remedial etc, these days I feel without IT oso can identify.. IT becomes cumbersome because we tak berapa pandai how to maximize it. As for Headcount... counting heads.. ha! ha! It's mainly for show, like most things in our edu system now. Package everything nicely so that looks nice, impressive... but inside; if you look long and hard enough, there're lots of rotting stuff there.. what to do, our kepala(s) don't plan properly, either that or they don't know or too tak kisah... but I am sure of one thing though... our priorities are quite-quite 'wrong'-lah.
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