Notebooks Taking Over
Notebooks Taking Over
Ripped and missing pages, broken spines, dirty covers, and out of date material, these are just a few downfalls of school textbooks. Since the beginning of education, textbooks have been the backbone of education. A several-hundred-page book divided into chapters and sprinkled with review questions has been the reference of choice for teachers around the world. But is there a better way? In today’s digital age, students are less willing to carry around and crack open textbooks, when there are faster and lighter ways to access information. Specifically, school textbooks should be replaced by notebook computers. Laptops are more efficient for learning, students, and budgets.
Students today are much more accustomed to finding information electronically than manually in textbooks. Being able to use a search engine to find information on a topic is much faster, and more accurate than reading/skimming pages in a book to find what you need. Laptops also provide the option to conveniently, and much more cost effectively update educational material and curriculum. With paper textbooks, schools are required to buy entirely new books whenever they are updated, or risk letting students fall behind with outdated information. Online textbook publishers, on the other hand, provide access to new revisions as soon as they are released. Schools simply download the updates and get the new information without having to buy new sets of books.
Notebook computers also make students’ lives easier outside of the classroom by improving organization and back health. They allow you to do homework without taking every single piece of paper out of your backpack and sorting through them. When all the materials are stored on the computer, it’s that much harder to forget one textbook or notebook at school. In addition, laptops don’t weigh nearly as much as an entire backpack full of textbooks. Lighter backpacks result in fewer back problems for teens
Ripped and missing pages, broken spines, dirty covers, and out of date material, these are just a few downfalls of school textbooks. Since the beginning of education, textbooks have been the backbone of education. A several-hundred-page book divided into chapters and sprinkled with review questions has been the reference of choice for teachers around the world. But is there a better way? In today’s digital age, students are less willing to carry around and crack open textbooks, when there are faster and lighter ways to access information. Specifically, school textbooks should be replaced by notebook computers. Laptops are more efficient for learning, students, and budgets.
Students today are much more accustomed to finding information electronically than manually in textbooks. Being able to use a search engine to find information on a topic is much faster, and more accurate than reading/skimming pages in a book to find what you need. Laptops also provide the option to conveniently, and much more cost effectively update educational material and curriculum. With paper textbooks, schools are required to buy entirely new books whenever they are updated, or risk letting students fall behind with outdated information. Online textbook publishers, on the other hand, provide access to new revisions as soon as they are released. Schools simply download the updates and get the new information without having to buy new sets of books.
Notebook computers also make students’ lives easier outside of the classroom by improving organization and back health. They allow you to do homework without taking every single piece of paper out of your backpack and sorting through them. When all the materials are stored on the computer, it’s that much harder to forget one textbook or notebook at school. In addition, laptops don’t weigh nearly as much as an entire backpack full of textbooks. Lighter backpacks result in fewer back problems for teens