The bell rings, school is dismissed. As you’re twisting the knob of your combination lock, in your head thoughts are jumbling on what textbooks you need to take home. You grab you books and go. You get on the bus, find your seat and the bus manages to leave the school you realize that you forgot your chemistry textbook. Text books are a huge fuss and if you ask me, I much rather prefer replacing them with laptops. With laptops everything is there, you can’t forget your algebra or chemistry textbook; you can just pull up the online version on your laptop. Aside from being a little more organized in having access to your classes at the click of a button, in the long run, it would be more efficient for the environment.
At Grove High School, you can’t carry a back pack around so it’s hard to jumble around 5 textbook at times. Being able to just have all your class textbooks on a hard drive built in to your laptop would seem a bit more organized. If a student knows they have to hall around textbooks they are less likely to actually do their work; however if the student just has to tag along a laptop on the ride home, they will have everything they need right there causing them to actually get their school work done. Having all your class textbooks on a laptop could definitely help with organization skills for students.
Millions of trees are cut down just to make workbooks and textbooks for schools. Students waste half of the paper just in doodles and read pages that are never referred back to. With laptops, you’re not wasting paper. Textbooks get old and outdated and have to be replaced; with online textbooks on laptops, you go from cutting down a tree to update you book, to clicking a “download” button. Laptops are far more eco-friendly.
Switching from textbooks to laptops could increase organization skills and help save a couple million trees. Of course, if students would really like to see the text books thrown out and laptops shipped in,