Schools using tablets instead of books
- jeff1962
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Re: Schools using tablets instead of books
Although tablets will not replace the total experience of actually holding a book I find it easier to read. You can easily adjust the size of the font on a tablet saving the extra expense and trouble of getting a large print edition.
The two biggest disadvantage of kids using tablets are they get lost and damaged. Tablets and other mobile devices are always getting left on buses, in cafeterias or just left at home. beverages are always getting spilled on them, they get dropped or sat on.
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I can see how having textbooks on a tablet or reader can help students carry they're books with them and makes it so much lighter as in taking homework to the library or when out with the family and that chapter has to be read by first period tomarrow morning. But to be completely reliant on technology to me takes away from the actual experiance of reading. It is a catch 22 sort of speak.
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It can be really hard not to be a book snob. I know. I'm pretty sure I'm half of one, simply because I'd prefer a library to a Kindle and love my copy of Les Miserables to death, or at least to the point where I've cracked the spine in two places. There's something sensory about a book that can't be matched by a tablet or a computer. You can run your thumb over the pages and hold it up to your nose to smell them. You can feel the reassuring weight of a book under your arm as you walk home alone. I've used books to hold down muslin while I cut patterns and to attempt to swat a fly. (Don't worry, it wasn't an old edition of anything.)
Still, if you only need the information in the book and aren't looking for that sensory feeling, there isn't much difference between a tablet and a book. After all, it's not like the words change when they're made electronic rather than paper-and-ink. It's exactly the same, just on a different medium.
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These devices should be used with wisely, not to keep kids quiet!
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I have many reasons as to why I believe real books should remain in schools. Here is my argument:
1. Real books are awesome. You can clearly see the length by how thick they are and track your progress by the good ol' bookmark-close-and-check method.
2. If you give a student a book, whether it be a novel or a textbook, they take up more space. In a car, a backpack, anything. So if the student carries home the book and has to luff it around, they are more likely to crack it open. At least that's the way I think.
3. Tablets are awesome too (don't call me a hypocrite here, I have my reasons). Math textbooks. First of all, can they even be considered a book? More numbers than words is a sin, especially when the text is 600 pages and 8 lbs of nonsense. If teacher is too lazy to just print us all a worksheet with three problems on it, then I'm too lazy to carry home my textbook and most of the time just end up taking a picture of the pages I need anyway. Don't print a useless math textbook when putting them online or making an ebook is just as affective.
4. No one is going to steal my Huck Finn book, but a shiny tablet might catch a thief's eye in the backseat of my Jetta and then I'll be left with a broken passenger side window and an obligation to my school.
5. I understand that tablets save trees and are practical in this day and age, but I can't play the Kim Kardashian game or tweet to my friends on my paperback. Less distractions is always a good thing.
So, all in all, I vote books over tablets unless it's something as silly as a math text as thick as Nicki Minaj's booty.
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