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Technology, Not Textbooks

January 14, 2016
By Anonymous


The World is moving too fast and textbooks are starting to get older.
“Did you finish your social studies work?
“Yea but I Couldn’t find much in the social studies book. I had to look it on the internet
and I found lots of great facts to put in my essay.


I think that we should use internet instead of textbooks. We should use tablets because tablets can hold hundreds on books and we can do our homework on them and read our books or chapters that teacher assign to us. In school we should start using tablets and not textbooks the reason i think this is because tablets have much more information that textbooks. My reason why is about textbooks, about tablets and, comparing and contrasting textbooks and tablets.I believe tablets are a better source than textbooks because tablets are faster and improved,

Tablets can help students because they can post their homework online if they don't have a computer at home.”Textbooks are expensive. They are also hard on environment and inefficient”.Tablets are great because a new software is released and needs to be tested then ebooks can help with that problem for a couple hours or a few days. ‘Tablets can hold hundreds of information”. Tablets are a new tool in classroom and can help in many ways in the class room. Kids who use tablets in the classroom have better literacy scores than most students. Back to school shopping is a lot but if we use tablets we won't really need to go school shopping and spend all your money.If tablets can hold hundreds of information and they are a new tool name then what is next?.(“21 Reasons to Use Tablets in the Classrooms”)

‘Tablets can hold hundreds of information”. Since tablets can hold hundreds of information I think that we should be using tablets. The reason why I believe we should use tablets is because we wouldn’t have to buy new textbooks every year for them to have ripped pages or for them to be drawn in. Also tablets can’t be written on or broken if it has a screen protector. Also if we get tablets for the students then we could the tablets backed up and get the stuff deleted off of the tablets from the previous years. The schools could also get payment plans for the guardian of the child so they can have to tablet to do homework study read books and other things Kids who use tablets in the classroom have better literacy scores than most students. (Subramanian) Also the if the children already have tablets they can use there instead of there parents getting a new one.


Tablets are affordable and portable and powerful. Also tablets are easy to use tablets can be used in the car if need to get work done or even to listen to a video a teacher put up. A tablet makes taking notes easier to get to. A student with a tablet can download research and class materials in a snap. It’s not really hard to do tablets can help in a class a lot of ways. ‘Tablets in the classrooms help with 20% of Istep scores.’‘78% of students that were in the pilot program scored high and advanced.’(By Christina Bonnington 2012).Tablets will help with all types of test and istep scores. This is why we should have tablets in the classroom to help with scores and taking more notes.
If we have tablets in the classroom this can help with test scores taking notes and more. Someone who is disagreeing with me would say but what happens to the tablets and they break.
Also but textbooks are much easier than anything.
Another thing they might say is but what if test scores don't really go up?
What if we can't get payment plans for the tablets.
I believe tablets are a better source than textbooks because tablets are faster and improved. I think tablets need to be put into classrooms now because books aren't doing it we need them now. They are more useful than textbooks. Also they help us learn better.

 

“21 Reasons to Use Tablets in the Classrooms.” www.teacherthought.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 7 Jan. 2016.
Subramanian, Courtney. “New Study Finds iPads in the Classroom Boost Test Scores | TIME.com.” TIME.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 8 Jan. 2016.


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