Lesson 18 Tablets for Textbooks in schools

Lesson 18

                        Tablets for Textbooks in schools

For Philippines school, even for private ones catering to children of the well-to-do families, the so called Tablet-for-learning is still futuristic. Given, the recognized impact of technology in education, the future may not be too far away.

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 there are now perceptions that virtual literacy may very well ease out textual print literacy. Already the disadvantages of using books for learning are being debated upon. For school-graders, the load of books and workbooks for every subject are backbreaking due to their weight and size. In developing countries, one-book for every student is still a goal, not a reality.

Textbooks are very important in school because every student are required to have it, and the information’s are all there. Using tablets also in learning is helpful to the students because in searching assignments, projects and etc. it is not time consuming you just search and then the information are all there.

Both tablet and textbook are both helpful and each of them also has the disadvantages and advantages. In textbook some learners felt boring in reading it some learners also they prefer reading a textbook .The disadvantages of Tablet is that not all the information that is being downloaded in the internet is reliable.

We are now in 21^st century, and we all know that learners are more on technology but Tablets and textbooks are both helpful in learning the important thing is that the learners must know how to evaluate the information that they need if the source is reliable.