Uruguay became the first country to provide laptops for every public elementary school students. President Tabare Vazquez has submitted the model XO laptops to students at a school in Montevideo, 13 October.
For more than two years, 362,000 students and 18,000 teachers to be involved in the scheme of division of these laptops. Project "Plan Ceibal" (Education Connect) allows many families to access the internet and into the world of computers for the first time.
As quoted from the pages of BBC television, Uruguay included in the project "One Laptop Per Child", an organization formed by Internet pioneer Nicholas Negroponte. Their vision is to distribute the laptops worth U.S. $ 100 despite the fact more expensive.
The program for this laptop takes up the state budget of U.S. $ 260 per child, including for maintenance, repair tools, training for teachers, and establish an internet connection. Their total number was less than 5 percent of the education budget. About 70 percent of the XO laptop model government handed over to students who do not have a computer at home.
"This is not just surrender the laptop, nor a mere educational programs. This is a program aimed at reducing the gap between the digital world with a world of knowledge, "said Miguel Brechner, director of the Technological Laboratory of Uruguay as well as in charge of Plan Ceibal.
Uruguay ahead of general elections on 25 October, the project is promoted as an achievement by the government of Tabare Vazquez. "This is a revolution that helped us tremendously, but it was not easy," said Lourdes Bardino, principal School 173 in Las Piedras.
"There was a female teacher who has worked for 30 years and when the computer training and computer usage is given, he wanted to quit teaching. Then he changed his decision and now he's changing the way he taught, "continued Bardino. The plan next year laptops will also be distributed to the students of secondary and pre-school.
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