Plan CEIBAL Plan CEIBAL

One Laptop per Child One Laptop per Child and per Teacherand per Teacher

Miguel Brechner Kigali June 2009

The Three If

If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I? If not now, when?"[2] . Rabbi Hillel , year 1 BC

When will our societies be prepared for any school child of today to be an Engineer or Doctor in 2029, and a President in 2049

Plan CEIBAL

CEIBAL

Data of Uruguay

Population 3.3 MillionSize 173.000 Km2Dividided in 19 Areas

80% Urban 20% RuralVery strong Public School (85%).

Alfabetization 97%. Total number of beneficiaries

(children and teachers) 350.000

Pillars of Plan CeibalEquality – 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

Plan CEIBAL

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

Plan CEIBAL 2008-2009

• Pilot May 2007• Delivered until today

225.000 laptops, 1.250 servers, connectiity 86%

• To be delivered 2009, 165.000 laptops, 1000 severs, full connectivity

• Connectivity 300 mts maximum walk for internet (2010)

• 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

Plan CEIBAL

Preparing and training teachers is needed Children teach the teachers Parents get involved and want to be trained. Teachers resistance is overcome once 1:1 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

What have we learned

Plan CEIBAL

Activities of Children an Parents

• Usage for search of information at school and home• Taking Pictures , Video , Music & Games• Increase of children interaction using Chat.• TV watching by children diminishes • Sharing of the Laptop in the family

Impacts

Homes with computers will grow by 220.000 (20%).

Half ot them belong to the poorest 20% of the population.

School attendance has grown, and class repetition has diminished very much.

High motivation of teachers and children

Parents participate actively in the School environment.

Opportunities for the development in music, video, photograpy, programming, that without Ceibal would be almost null

Results are shown immediately

Equal Opportunities for the future. New individual rights.

Who should implement it?.

Courage is needed to do it.

Every year we dont do it, thousands of kids loose their rights.

If we dont do it know, when should we do it??

Main Conclusions

Plan CEIBAL

Muchas Gracias.