The Benefits Of Using Tablets Opposed To Textbooks In Schools

Throughout this paper, I will be identifying the benefits of technology within our modern day school system. Although there are many benefits, it can still have its consequences on our youth. After identifying the good that technology can have, I will then describe how our reliance on technology can later effect our life in our future. I will then describe the things that have been replaced by technology and its uses towards benefiting us as a society. It has become increasingly clear that the more time that passes, the more advanced we become with technology. Although a majority of the impact that technology has made in the school system has been beneficial, it can still have its setbacks towards our method of adapting towards what is brought to our attention within our everyday life. Technology has managed to make our ways of old obsolete within the learning community. We have abandoned our reliance on paper, and needing teachers as a whole. We have managed to create a sort of utopia within our adaptability towards technology. (Murphy, 2014)

We’ve learned to overcome our worldly struggles and extract and take advantage of the things that technology has allowed us to do. Before the use of technology in our school system, we relied on taking notes with paper. This caused a mass production of notebook paper to be made which had a major impact on our eco-system. We destroyed forest after forest in order to for fill our need of paper. Since the advancement of technology, this is no longer a necessity. (Glasbergen)

We have managed to create many different variations of firmware to allow us to take notes digitally, which has allowed us to decrease the need of paper within schools. This, as many other things, will create a profound impact within our way of life. Although technology has helped us in a worldly sense, we have unknowingly created a reliance upon thereof. Everywhere you go, you see a form of technology in one way or another, but it is subtly destroying our attention span, and disabling the ability to create personal connections with one another. We talk to each other on screens, which destroys the value of face to face conversation. (Rapp, 2008)

How did this all begin? It’s when we began to rely on tablets instead of our textbooks. Using textbooks allowed us to be social, and studious with our peers. Textbooks allowed us to get hands on experience with our social construct, which is dearly needed when aiming to become successful within today’s society. In retrospect, we need to appreciate our physical forms of education, because it is dying slowly, but shortly.