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Should Student's Textbooks and Notebooks Be Replaced With Laptops?
Should heavy textbooks and notebooks be replaced with laptops and tablets?
By Liz F. (Open Post) - December 18, 2012 12:46 am ET
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Every year, millions of young children develop back problems due to the ghastly weight of their backpacks.
Millions of trees are cut down just to make workbooks and textbooks for schools.
While students continue to have back pains at early ages, the technological revolution has developed compact, light, laptops; some weighing as little as two pounds.
Will we continue to place strain on the growing backs of students? Or should we consider replacing the heavy textbooks and notebooks with laptops?
Although laptops are still quite expensive, ranging from 250-700 dollars each, the price of a single laptop compared to the cost of multiple textbooks is significantly less on the school district’s wallet.
Textbooks usually cost around a hundred dollars or more, yet the information gets outdated quickly and schools have to dig out more cash to purchase up-to-date textbooks.
With laptops, textbook publishers and teachers would be able to edit and update the information more easily on electronic copies of text.
Teachers would be able to select certain pages of workbooks to use online, instead of buying whole workbooks that we only use half of.