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When did books become bad? Now to save money schools give out tablets or chrome books and the kids just watch YouTube all day.
by austincheney 7y ago
When did books become bad? Now to save money schools give out tablets or chrome books and the kids just watch YouTube all day.
- adamnemecek 7y agoBooks do have a lot of disadvantages (and I say this as someone who spends A LOT of money on books). They are heavy, expensive, take up space, you can't search them etc. However, I find it almost impossible to learn hard subjects from a PDF. Printed book is so much better. I wonder why.
- austincheney 7y agoProbably because you can’t search it. You actually have to pretend to read it.
- nomadluap 7y agoAnd if you pretending hard enough, then you might just learn something!
- justicezyx 7y agoSchool books are expensive is because they are produced by corps with interests to make profit... I see no reason why school books cannot be made cheaply...
- toper-centage 7y agoBiggest disadvantage of books is that they are shareable, reusable, and DRM free. For business, anyway. There's lots of cool things you can do to enhance learning with computers, like daily quizzes, discussion boards, etc. But replacing books is not one of them IMO
- somatic 7y agoThere are studies showing that e-texts are significantly less “assimilable” than paper texts. I think the consensus speculation is that the physicality of the paper gives the brain a better understanding of the text, where you are in the text, and so on. Text on a screen, on the other hand, has an effectively infinite “depth”, among other things.
- commandlinefan 7y agoI feel like I learn and retain more from printed books than e-books… but maybe that’s just because I’m an old man who learned to read decades before there was such a thing as an e-book?
- commandlinefan 7y agoWell, when I was a kid in the 80’s, almost all of my textbooks had been recycled from the year before, and all of them had been drawn in, scribbled over, ripped up, had jelly stains on them - the school district replaced them every maybe five years or so, so every once in a while, I’d get a clean one, but usually I’d get something that was useless in places. On the other hand, my kids are learning from PDF’s now, and once the lesson is over, they delete the PDF’s, so they have nothing to reference - and even if they were saving them, it’d be a challenge to try to organize them in any meaningful way.
- SamReidHughes 7y agoMy school's textbooks were recycled and they were in great shape.