Lesson 18

BALURAN, Jan Westhine D.

BSEd-Eng4A

TTh- 10:00-12:00pm

Tablets for Textbooks in Schools

We all know that textbooks were first used long time ago. Until now, we still use it as a medium of instruction. It is doubtful if these will totally be replaced by digital technology reading tools, but there are now perceptions that virtual literacy may very well ease out textual print literacy.

We never ran out of books inside our home. Before I went to kindergarten schools, I already had my books since my mother is a school teacher. She taught me many things with the use of the available books in our house. Until I reached my kindergarten days, I was able to have more books for our lessons. But during high school, books had been expensive since I was studying in private school. I could still clearly remember that the most costly book in my entire high school life was the Physics which outlays Php 700.00 and the cheapest book costs, Php 120.00 which was our Values book (Our Journey). Until now, books in college are still for sale. I’ve never experienced yet using tablet as our textbook inside the classroom but I already experienced using it whenever I study or read something, or even research for something.

Textbook has been a great help to humankind, but as we notice nowadays, it is gradually vanishing in some school because of the technological advancement. But we could not deny the fact that tablets also contribute to the progress of an individual learnings.

As to the application, I will be introducing tablet as means of learning inside the learning area. But, I will not forget that books are more important than gadgets even if we say that tablets are advanced.