Electronic Textbooks

 

With everything these days becoming based around technology, there is a large question on our hands, whether or not we should exchange our school textbooks for electronic ones.

Buying our students iPads, or some other electronic device for the classroom could have many great affects including not having to carry so many books around school all day. I think some teachers take for granted that students have six classes, with at least one textbook in each class. Sometimes I know I have even had more then one text book, in many class. This adds up to a lot of extra weight that we could get rid of in one purchase. This buy would reduce the amount of stress on the student, and students would no longer have an excuse for not having their textbook in class with them, because they will always have an 

electronic version right there in their hands.

If the textbooks are all on one devise, students will find it much easier to carry one thing, instead on ten separate books around. With only one electronic book, students won’t have to worry about bringing a bunch of textbooks back and forth between school and their home, because they will be all set in one small device.

                                

Switching to electronic textbooks could also help the school save money on books. New and updated versions of textbooks come out every year, and the school always has to spend thousands of dollars on buying new ones. If we were to invest in electronic textbooks, we could save the amount of money we are spending. Also paper textbooks, get damaged or even ruin after only a few short years, so again the school will have to buy new textbooks. Electronic textbooks however won’t get damaged like the paper ones will, so we would only have to buy new electronic textbooks once every few years.

The only problem that I see in this new plan is that many students prefer to have an actual book while reading is because they like the feeling of flipping the pages, and the satisfaction of gradually getting further and further into the book. I like to know that they are actually making progress. With electronic books you don’t actually get the motions of turning the pages of a book, rather just clicking a button, and it automatically doing it for you.

Our society is gradually becoming more an more based around technology, so I feel like looking at the big picture, the best way to go is to stay up with society, and switch to electronic textbooks.