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Originally Posted by Lima Bean
While I love tablets, Kindles, and such . . . I've seen studies where people retain a whole lot more when they read from a physical book versus and e-device. If that's true, why the heck would a school want to move in that direction?
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Haven't there been studies that go both ways though?
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Considering everyone here embraces e-reading, I'm wondering if you think it's a good idea for convert our schools to digital.
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I think a mix is probably best. Our district tested out iPad's, but went with Chromebooks (middle school & high school have them) instead with some textbooks still in paper. The textbooks on the Chromebook work fairly well from what I've done with them and are for the most part just digital versions of the same or similar textbooks they use/used in paper (except you can search, highlight, etc.). Every kid has a school Google account with email, Google drive, etc.
One thing with Chromebooks or tablets or whatevers is there is an added distraction factor in that since they're web enabled the kids can do other things on them like play games and watch Youtube when it's really homework time. Takes a bit of extra monitoring every once and a while.
Also backpacks no longer weigh anywhere near what they did when kids were carrying around 4-5 large textbooks which is a very good thing IMO.