Still clinging to Paper Textbooks when we're already in a Digital Age?
By Rainselle
@Rainbowliselle (498)
Philippines
October 23, 2010 12:49am CST
I wonder why schools and students still cling to paper textbooks when we are already in a Digital Age? Can students go to school without carrying their books everyday and just work in front of a computer since in just a click the whole world can already open too many doors to both the students and teachers? And in this way, parents will be spending less for education sans the books expenses if they can only do away with textbooks. I wonder why this can't be made possible.
5 responses
@o0jopak0o (6394)
• Philippines
27 Oct 10
browsing 3-5 books at once in a ebook is really hard compared to just browsing them in paper.
@Rainbowliselle (498)
• Philippines
28 Oct 10
It's interesting to read everyone's comments here. Thanks for making me some of negative sides of having a full-blast use of IT in school. Even myself, I would probably prefer reading a paperback books than having my eyes strained for hours reading an e-book.
@Rainbowliselle (498)
• Philippines
28 Oct 10
correction: "Thanks for making me SEE some of THE negative sides..." Thanks everyone for interacting :)
@bittudavis (256)
• India
24 Oct 10
When I was for the sixth semester of my Engineering me and my friends used to buy the textbooks from the store inorder to make notes in related with that. Then we got to know that there are a lot of books and references in the internet that could make us help to note. Then we moved to the internet book stores where free reading and the downloading was provided. Now, we are having the largest collection of Engineering books in our computers.
@mariacecilia13 (490)
• Philippines
23 Oct 10
It will not be easy especially if the government, the schools or the family cannot afford it. It is true that we should take advantage of this technology but definitely one needs money to enjoy it :)
@Vegtamr (82)
• Italy
23 Oct 10
A computer for every student would be far too expensive for any school, for now... In a near future, maybe it will be possible to use more ebook reader and less paper book, but for not the cheaper solution, for a school, is still the book. Let alone the digital divide problem, at least in a country like mine.
I won't enphasize too much the Digital Age, by the way, 'cause it's true that a small part of the world live with a computer, but it's still a small part, even in the richest countries...
@jklein09 (74)
• United States
23 Oct 10
So my College uses Flat World Knowledge for one of my classes and I HATE IT. It is an online book type thing where you can read the book online, for free; OR you can print the whole book, print a chapter, or order the book FOR A FEE. So unless you have great vision and can read a tiny little side thing.. it sucks! I love hard copy books. I know there is probably a way to make the PDF bigger.. but its hard enough for me to read text on the screen just typing. Still prefer the hard copy. (Though the Amazon Kindle is AMAZING. I could read on that all day)
