Lesson 18: Tablets for Textbooks in Schools

Today, books are still the primary medium of instruction in most schools. It is doubtful if these will totally be replaced by digital technology reading tools, but here are now perceptions that virtual literacy may very well ease out textual print literacy. Publishing and printing million of books for millions of public school children are just too expensive for the public purse. Today, given the facts that students are enamored by computer games which take much of their time at home, educators have begun to think that the computer screen cab very well serve as a powerful educational medium. For the experience of De La Salle School, instead of books, students use tablets as a replace for textbooks. In survey it shows a positive effect to the students because it promotes concentration and memory retention.

Most of the time I’ve been using it but not the tablet but through my phone especially in my case I have no laptop by that I should be resourceful enough in the availability that I have through electronic books downloaded pdf and research I can easily read the things to be read. there are really some school practicing this like the De La Salle and Ateneo but again its very expensive .

In my own perspective , the vision of the educators to replace the textbooks with tablets is a dream for the improvement of educational learning but in reality there is a lot of factor to reconsider because not all students can afford the expensive gadget and some learners are computer illiterate which can also hinder for their learning ( no offense).Even though BOOKS alone has its own advantages like for example a elementary pupil the load of the books and workbooks for every children are backbreaking and bulky to carry due to its weight and size an also because this tablet has a radiation that is really bad for the health of the child but still tablet is very useful but should not replace the textbooks it is OK to use it just sometimes.