.Schools shift from textbooks to tablets

http://news.yahoo.com/schools-shift-textbooks-tablets-081047398.html


good idea? not sure. yeah, it would be possible that it would lower costs but to me it could hinder other skills that need to be learned like writing.

also if the wifi goes out then they are screwed.

 

Noah can bring that tablet to school if he wants to...guess who's not repairing it if it gets broken? Don't know a 10 yr old talked me into a tablet in the first place :smt102

 

yeah, it s good on "paper" but when kids start tearing up the tablets and parents (especially low income) have to pay for it....big problem.

I dont think kids should be allowed to take them home for that reason.

 

Bad idea. There's too many distractions on a tablet.

 

As long as the tablet doesn't take the place of books and writing completely, I think it's ok. They need to limit that stuff to just a couple of classes (or a just a few uses) though.

 

it's a great idea. a tablet can hold thousands of books......and it would save money because you eliminate the many expenses of book production: paper, reduced labor costs. and who are we kidding with kids breaking it? they are more savy with technology than any of us. we remember are in the iphone generation.

 

I know kids that I wouldn't trust with a tablet. No freakin' way. My mother's husband has a nephew (who will be in high school just next year) who was given an iPod Touch a few months ago and the screen was cracked just a week after owning it. He even left it in the backyard for two weeks (says he couldn't find it) and didn't care. :roll: I don't know how he can still use it, bits of the screen have fallen out!
There are definitely kids who can't be trusted with technology. ESPECIALLY if they don't own it. Look what kids do to the text books and library books at school?!

However, like I said earlier, I think they can be useful.

 

I agree with you. students are allowed to take them home and I heard that students are jacking them up. these are low income so you know they cant afford to fix/replace them

 

Schools are going to start offering take home insurance.

New market: even though you can get coverage through your phone carrier , home insurance or place you bought it from, but we are going to see a lot more third party offers for accidental coverage for this type of matter.

 

Lol

I don't have any kids yet, so I think that's even more funny to me in sense.