Title: How do you evaluate a plan like Ceibal?
Author: Michael Trucano
Source: EduTech
Publisher: The World Bank Group
Date (published): 11/12/2009
Date (accessed): 16/12/2009
Type of information: blog post
Language: English
On-line access: yes (HTML)
Abstract:
If you have had your fill of theories and promises about what the widespread diffusion of information and communication technologies (ICTs) might mean for teaching and learning practices across an entire education system and want to see what actual practice looks like, a trip to Montevideo (or better yet, one of the regions outside the Uruguayan capital) should be high on your list.

Under Plan Ceibal (earlier blog post here), Uruguay is the first country in the world to ensure that all primary school students (or at least those in public schools) have their own personal laptop. For free. (The program is being extended to high schools, and, under a different financial scheme, to private schools as well). Ceibal is about more than just 'free laptops for kids', however.

Title: Uruguay's Plan Ceibal: The world's most ambitious roll-out of educational technologies?
Author: Michael Trucano
Source: EduTech
Publisher: The World Bank Group
Date (published): 18/09/2009
Date (accessed): 28/09/2009
Type of information: blog post
Language: English
On-line access: yes (HTML and video)
Abstract:
Plan Ceibal, the education reform initiative that is aiming (most famously) to provide one laptop for every student and teacher in Uruguay, is set, according to project director Miguel Brechner, to achieve 'full deployment' at the primary level by the end of this month, and is now targeting secondary education as well. Brechner's very informative presentation provided insight into the context, scale and ambition behind the initiative, and included some very intriguing preliminary results.