Joseph Elder

ISM Period 6
David Nagel. "The End of Textbooks?" Http://www.scholastic.com/.
N.p., Nov.-Dec. 2008 Rapp. Web. 15 Oct. 2015

Traditional paper textbooks over $100 each

Paper textbooks are easily damaged
Some textbooks can be outdated very quickly
Textbooks are heavy to be carrying around
Digital textbooks are easy to carry around
One device can serve as multiple textbooks
Digital textbooks have much more uses, such as research
material, and project creations
Digital textbooks have improved more the last few years
than they have the last decade
Digital textbooks are hard to integrate into schools due to
budgeting
It will be difficult to teach students to use the digital
textbooks after learning with paper for so long
Schools adopt new ways of using technology
Some school are being used to experiment with the tech.
Teachers must learn to teach with new technology

Digital textbooks have many advantages over traditional paper

textbooks such as being lightweight, cheaper, and able to provide
many different textbooks and subjects with on device, though
there are difficulties in switching to them.