The Ministry of Education (KPM) is still working to transform education system materials, such as physical textbooks, to digital format in order to address the issue of heavy baggage among students.
Deputy Education Minister Lim Hui Ying, on the other hand, claimed the effort was rather limited, given student ownership of digital devices and the availability of internet connection in schools across the country.
According to Berita Harian, she stated that the Ministry of Education and Culture also supplied some learning resources in digital form, with a total of 754 digital textbooks uploaded through the Malaysian Digital Learning Platform up to this point (DELIMa).
"Unfortunately, we cannot specify a time frame for the victim (the fully digital system) because this is subject to financial limits, possibly we will have a detailed plan in a particular length of time." Hui Ying stated.
"In addition, we supplied 3,800 projectors to be utilized in schools to aid learning last year, the second phase this year is 3,500, and we intend to supply another 3,800 projectors next year," she said today during the oral question and answer session at the Dewan Rakyat.
She said this in response to a question from Wan Hassan Mohd Romli (PN-Dungun), who urged the Minister of Education to make a decision on how to solve the problem of pupils carrying heavy luggage.
At the same time, Hui Ying stated that the MoE collaborated with the Islamic Development Department of Malaysia (JAKIM) on uniform coordination so that students can wear their respective school uniforms during Al-Quran and Fardu Ain (KAFA) Classes to address the issue of heavy luggage.
She stated that the Ministry of Education and Culture has improved the initiative to deal with the issue of heavy bags holistically since last year, encompassing the introduction of primary school lockers for all level one children, i.e. year one and year two at two-session primary schools.
According to her, the calendar was also reorganized to allow teachers to plan teaching and learning (PdP) more effectively by allocating time to adopt a modular and themed approach.
"We also limit the number of training books we use, i.e. no more than two volumes for each topic, and employ activity books issued by the Ministry of Education, while workbooks can only be used as reference or review material outside of PdP hours," she explained.
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