The EduTech World Bank blog visits the country of Georgia, where small laptops are being distributed to primary school students, and school-leaving exams are now conducted via online computer-adaptive testing. Beginning with a pilot program that distributed 2500 netbooks to first graders and their teachers in fall 2010, the government has now distributed over 60,000 “Bukis,” a localized version of the Intel Classmate laptop, which is produced by a Georgian computer firm. A national education portal with Georgian language content also is available, and digital textbooks and other educational content is pre-loaded on the devices themselves. These materials (and others, like “Art” and 50 other education games developed by the Ministry of Education) supplement traditional paper-based texts.
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