Okay, so textbooks are terrible. They are heavy, boring, basically just a huge compilation of fact after fact with no real world applications. I- Pads on the other hand are great. Light-weight, you can download all the textbook information that is required for class. They are convenient.... Unless you're like me and you despise the use of technology and long for the day when the world falls apart and man is forced to communicate by either morse code or by using a hammer and chisle to leave vague messages for others who wander by... either way, still much better than staring blankly at a computer screen right?? Okay, maybe not.
The point is, yes I-Pads are way more convenient, light, and definately don't require every tree in the Amazon to make, but they are not practical for public schools. I mean, schools would be REQUIRED to provide each student with one, so what happens when it breaks? And it will... especially if you're giving them to children... I mean that's what children do... break things. So would the school be required to replace them, sweet for the kid... expensive for the school. Schools would all be broke, teachers would all be fired and then the Apocolypse would come. Maybe not, but that's just me. Here are some links to kind of talk about both sides a bit. Look through everything and tell me what you think. Should texbooks be replaced with I- Pads?
http://www.edutopia.org/no-books-no-problem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKAm1OmdFfU
Ha! The video was funny! You do raise some important issues about the use of iPads in K-12 schools related to cost and replacements. I also agree that reading on a screen is not for everybody! I still read magazines and novels the old fashioned way!
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