ICT SupportFirst low-cost laptops awe Uruguayan children.

First low-cost laptops awe Uruguayan children. IHT/AP , as noted in ASCD’s Smartbrief. Online May 2007. The first low-cost laptops are being issued to poor children in rural Uruguay, Nigeria and Thailand who have never before used computers. "Thanks to this, I'm going to be able to study tons of science," said 8-year-old Joel Nicoletti, who says he'd like someday to be a scientist and was one of 160 Uruguayan students to receive a laptop. …