Electronic Readers Will Replace Paper Textbooks
The days of paper textbooks in School classrooms are numbered. The prospect of being able to carry around all of your schools books on one electronic device — with the data backed up on the web, of course — will be too great for many to resist. How long will it take? Who knows, but 5-10 years is a reasonable guess.
With the release of the Kindle, Sony Reader, iRex Digital Reader and Plastic Logic Reader, among others, we are seeing the future home of textbooks taking shape. While some of the devices might be a little clumsy and awkward at the moment — you can bet your bottom dollar that in five years time, evolution will have done it’s thing, and we will have some outstanding electronic reading devices to work with.
The benefits to students will be enormous — not having to carry around big and heavy paper books, being able to purchase school books online with just a few simple clicks, paying less, ability to search the content of ebooks, potential for multimedia interaction in ebooks, etc, the list goes on.
While old school types might bristle at the idea, the YouTube generation will take to it like bees to honey.
Simply put, electronic readers in the classroom, is only a matter of time.
Bring it on.
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