Should Laptops Be Allowed In Schools

Many people’s back throb in pain from the amount of textbook they carry in their backpack. In my junior year, I used to carry three textbooks because of my Advanced Placement classes. Every year, millions of young children and teenagers develop back problems due to the unpleasant weight of the backpack. While children continues to have back problems, engineers develop light-weight, sustainable laptops. Millions of trees are being cut down to produce more textbooks. Replacing textbooks with laptops can cause textbook companies, like Pearson Education, McGraw-Hill Education, Scholastic, etc., to lose business. Laptops can help you save more money and find countless informations in numerous websites. Should schools replace heavy, irritating textbooks

Many students will use the laptop for games, websites, apps, and emails instead of their classworks. Studies showed that “87% of K-12 teachers believe that today’s digital technologies are creating an easily distracted generation with short attention spans (Urs Gasser and John Palfrey).” As a laptop user in class, I get distracted from doing my classwork by reading news in other websites. Students, who are uneducated and have lack of motivation to learn, will use laptop for the disadvantage of learning. Installing tablets and laptops is more expensive than using print textbooks. For example; Lee Wilson, an education marketing expert, estimated the yearly cost per student per class with tablets to be $71.55 than $14.26 for print textbooks (“Apple’s iPad Textbooks Cost 5x More Than Print). In addition, building new wi-fi infrastructure, training teachers and administrators how to use the technology, and hiring IT manager to control the system can be a high percentage of cost than new print textbooks in an average school. Appropriately, using laptops or tablets can cause more distractions in learning and higher costs for maintenance and