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Montevideo - Education authorities confirmed
that all primary school children will
receive a free laptop as part of the Ceibal
plan (Basic Informatics Education Connection
for Learning on line).
Miguel Brechner, president of the Uruguayan
Technology Laboratory (LATU) informed that
distribution will begin on May 11 in the
schools of the neighboring province of
Canelones and in June they will distribute
in Montevideo, the last province to join the
program.
When the process concludes all primary
school children in the country and most
teachers will have this powerful tool for
learning as part of the first such
initiative in the world.
Brechner indicated that Ceibal will have its
own television signal to promote a better
interaction between students and teachers.
Also a thousand more servers will be
installed that are now added to the 1,100
already functioning with wireless internal
and external Internet.
The Uruguayan government intends to extend
the Ceibal Plan to secondary and
pre-university schools.
This experience has called the attention of
several nations and governments including
Paraguay whose vice president, Federico
Franco, met with Uruguayan specialists to
begin applying this plan soon in his
country.
Also requesting Uruguayan consultation are
the governments of Colombia and Mexico and
the Argentine provinces Entre Ríos, Tierra
del Fuego and Buenos Aires, while several
European universities are studying the
advances of the program from an educational
and social point of view.
With the Ceibal Plan Uruguay intends to
promote digital inclusion to reduce the
breach in comparison to other nations and
among its own citizens to open a greater and
better access to education and culture. |
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