Uruguay has become the first country to provide a laptop for every child attending primary school.
Uruguay has become the first country to provide a laptop for every child attending primary school. bbc | before
Uruguay is part of the One Laptop Per Child scheme, an organisation set up by internet pioneer Nicholas Negroponte. His original vision was to provide laptops at $100 (£61) but they proved more expensive.
The Uruguay programme has cost the state $260 (£159) per child, including maintenance costs, equipment repairs, training for the teachers and internet connection.
The total figure represents less than 5% of the country's education budget.
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It's been a year that they are giving laptops to every children in primary to secundary school so maybe Uruguay is the first country...i don't know. Otherwise ihere are some studies that say that are pretty unuseful...
I am an uruguayan architect...
It has taken to the government 3 years to finish giving XO laptops to every child and teacher in the country (of course it has been possible because it is a very little country with only 3 million people).
And it seems to me that these laptops are pretty useful! In fact OLPC seems to have started a revolution in primary education: traditional transmission of information is not posible anymore, instead it promotes collaborative learning, interaction and social construction of knowledge. I think teachers are going to be forced to take a constructivism approach.
I work designing public schools and I am doing a research (in a University) on how OLPC has transformed education and therefore space.
If anyone has some thoughts on the subject, I would like to hear them. You can reach me at pedrobarran at yahoo.com
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