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Textbooks and iPads as Modes of Learning

 

In its digital form the content of an e-book escapes the pages of an ordinary book because simply the content is no longer tied physically to paper. An e-book can in principle be available anywhere through the Internet, accessed any hour of the day. All you need is an Internet connection, an e-book reading device and, of course, money.
             Although laptops are still quite expensive, ranging from250-700 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 Textbooks usually cost around a hundred dollars or more, yet the information gets outdated quickly and schools have to dig out more cash to purchase up-to-date textbooks.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 less than half of.
             Not only would this be easier on the school's budget but also on the environment. "Over fifty million trees are chopped down each year to make textbooks in the United States alone. Four billon trees worldwide are chopped down yearly for paper, notebooks, workbooks, you name it " (dublin.patch.com). An example is that "Indonesia extinguished half of its rain forests in these few decades " (essayforum.com). That is a lot of trees resulting in less and less oxygen yearly. If we do not stop this problem, a long time from now, we will not have any oxygen left. "Using similar data, an outfit called Cleantech did a study which looked at the question sort if in reverse, saying if you were to read three books a month for four years, the e-reader would significantly outperform conventional paper books in carbon emitted " (scgh.com). Notebook computers do not require trees as compared to the textbooks, which requires many trees thus resulting in less oxygen but more paper.


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