Lesson 18:Tablets for Textbooks in Schools

CONTENT

           This lesson talks about the different between Textbook and Tablets. Tablets for learning is still futuristic, but today’s books are still the primary of medium instruction in must schools. These will be replace by digital technology reading tools, but the disadvantages of using books are backbreaking due to their weight and size. Publishing and printing millions of books are too much expensive. If there is an error information the technical mistakes and editorial lapses. The technology is being view as a saviour. Learning technology along other audio-visual aids in teaching learning process.

EXPERIENCE

          I have been exposed to different books and tablets as well. But if i were to choose which is the best? Well, both or combination of the two will much better. Based on my experienced, I use the books at the same time the tablet. And using the both i think is advantageous because it really helps me a lot in my study. Tablets for convenience and books for detailed knowledge. Its up to you on what to prefer but I prefer to used both at the same time.

REFLECTION

          For me, yes it can be replace the textbooks to tablets because during my high school years, carrying heavy books in the school is burdensome for me. Thanks to IT because it developed software which entail for us to be trained by the teachers in preparing interactive discussion. Tablets for school may be difficult but the books have more durability compared with electronic gadgets due to handling, energy charging, and heat and most lastly, technology is being viewed as our saviour.

APPLICATION

Today, books are still the primary medium of instruction in most schools. Already, there is a disadvantage of using books for learning that are being debated upon. The errors in public school textbooks have also been exposed, errors resulting from wrong information, technical mistakes and editorial lapses.

Today, technology is being viewed as a saviour because the students are enamoured by computer games. By that, the educators have begun to think that the computer screen can very well serve as a power point educational medium.

In general, tablets as a primary learning tool can be replacing the textbooks. Tablets are conducive to higher thinking, constructive and participative teaching-and-learning. By that, parents gave full support to the IT advancement. Technology itself may be a key to problem resolution and Filipino ingenuity is called to respond to the challenge facing the digital generation of the millennium.