Source: Bernama

The Education Ministry's transformation of the school curriculum is aimed at sparking creative and innovative ideas among students, Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said.

The Education Minister said the transformation would stress on the acquisition of knowledge via fun learning and would not be examination oriented.

"With the transformation of curriculum, the learning process in classes will not be dominated by teachers.

"The learning process will prioritise interaction between students, teachers and classmates to spark creative and innovative ideas," he said here Tuesday.

Muhyiddin said this when launching MyIdeas@School at Sekolah Kebangsaan Lenga near here.

It was also attended by Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Datuk Seri Dr Maximus Ongkili.

He said innovation was the nation's main agenda where new ideas, ways and approaches need to be undertaken.

"We should make creativity and innovation a practice and culture to enrich and bring prosperity to the people."

This should be done from a young age as early exposure to creativity and innovation would help develop young minds.

"Here (in schools) we can create a generation of thinkers and inventors of the future. The main question is how do we achieve this?

Muhyiddin said first phase of MyIdeas@School implemented with cooperation of Multimedia Development Corporation (MDEC) would involve 23 schools nationwide.

Forty-two teachers from 21 smart schools in rural areas would be trained to guide students in using the MyIdeas portal.

He was confident that MyIdeas@School would complement other innovative programmes like Robotics and F1 in Schools.

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