Every public school student and teacher in Uruguay now has a free laptop. How is this changing education -- and what might this mean for the broader society?

• Uruguay's Plan Ceibal: What Happens When *all* Students and Teachers Have Their Own Laptops
  Thursday, 13 May 2010 / 12:30 - 2:00 PM
  MC4-800 World Bank main complex building,
  The World Bank
  1818 H St. NW , Washington, DC
  Please RSVP to wbeducation@worldbank.org

Alicia Casas de Barran, the Director of the National Archives of Uruguay, will share experiences from what has been called the world's most radical country-wide introduction of educational technologies: Uruguay's Plan Ceibal.

She will talk about the remarkable genesis of this project, the obstacles it has faced, and the emerging successes and challenges as the project enters its third year. She will share insights on how Uruguay is seeking to digitize its cultural heritage as part of Plan Ceibal, and how the physical architecture of schools is being re-imagined in an age where all children have their own personal computing devices, connected to the Internet -- and to each other.