Diapositiva 1

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Plan CEIBAL One Laptop per Child and per Teacher
Miguel Brechner Montevideo August 4
2009 Conferencia Interamericana Seguridad Publica
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Plan CEIBAL

• Pillars of Plan Ceibal
• Equality All Children Teachers in Public
  School get a Laptop
• Learning New tools for learning , new contents,
  new forms of education. Teachers teach and learn,
  Kids teach and learn.
• Technology Wireless Internet Connection in
  Schools, Public Places and many homes.
• Commitment Strong leadership of President
  Vazquez .
• We will not only reduce the gap of the Digital
  Divide, but more important we need to eliminate
  the Knowledge Divide

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Plan CEIBAL

• Main Goals
• Insure equal access to information and knowledge.
• Increase the learning and education
  opportunities.
• Achieve social inclusion.
• Invest in human capital to position Uruguay as a
  leader in the region.
• Reach sustainability after 2009 (0.1 GNP)
• Country and people empowernmen

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Plan CEIBAL 2008-2009

• Pilot May 2007
• Delivered until today 282.000 laptops, 1.632
  servers, connectiity 88 To be delivered rest of
  2009, 95.000 laptops, 540 severs, full
  connectivity
• Connectivity 300 mts maximum walk for internet
  (2010)

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Plan CEIBAL
Other Participants of Ceibal

• Homes of INAU (Institute of Children and
  Adolescense)
• Programs for Adolescents that have dropped out of
  school.
• Promesec. Program for young people that have
  broken the law

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Plan CEIBAL
What have we learned after one year

• Preparing and training teachers is needed
• Children teach the teachers
• Parents get involved and want to be trained.
• Teachers resistance is overcome once 11 starts
• School is centre of life in town.
• Collaboration in all aspects is natural in IT
  environment
• Voluntary work is needed
• New learning paradigm
• Teacher motivation empowers project and new
• ways to teach flourish

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Plan CEIBAL
Impact Measurement

• New homes with computers will rise by 220.000.
  (20 of total homes)
• Half of these homes belong to the poorest quintil
  of the population
• Children Identity restored .
• Growth of Children and Teacher Motivation
• Parents participate actively in school
  environment.
• Oportunities for the development in music, video,
  photography and programming in children that
  without Ceibal would not exist.

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Plan CEIBAL
Main Conclusions

• Results are shown immediately
• Equal Opportunities for the future. New
  individual rights..
• Courage is needed to do it.
• Every year we dont do it, thousands of kids are
  lost.
• If we dont do it know, when should we do it??

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Muchas Gracias
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Plan CEIBAL

• Parallel Action
• Technology Independance.
• Region Definition
• Teacher Training and delivery of notebooks
• Server and School Preparation
• Connectivity
• Children List
• Parents Meeting
• Delivery of notebooks to children
• Warranty and Tech Support

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