Argumentative Essay 2

Argumentative Essay 2

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USING ELECTRONIC BOOK IN SCHOOLS

 

What is your choice tablet or book? There will always be an argument whether electronic book is useful for students or not. This argument will not end because some people think of bad features of the electronic book while some people think of good feature of using the electronic book. We are in the technology era. As our social life and daily life are affected by technological developments, our education system is affected by technological developments. As we have seen, we started to use electronic books last year in schools. There are three major benefits of using electronic book in schools: it is a useful device for permanent and easy learning, it is very functional device, and it is a portable device.

The first benefit of using the tablet is that it provides students permanent and easy learning. While we are using book, we are also taking notes at some important points and we miss some points, so we cannot understand what the teacher tells us. For example, our teacher has a slide. We do not have to take notes as we can take it in a digital format with the tablet. It is so useful device for students who are tired of writing and typing during lectures and presentations. Because tablet provides us the opportunity of recording lecture and with these records, we can review our lesson at home at any time. It is not only a book but also a notebook. We can take notes by using pen and paper in tablets, circle, highlights, and underline especially important points. Another point is that it is proven that 60 percent of students learn best and easily with visual-spatial presentations. It is a high rate. Tablets offer students the opportunity of using a lot of materials like graphs, charts, images, and videos. As a result, tablets offer students much more materials to provide an effective learning.

The second benefit of using the tablet is that it is very functional device. We can take record our lectures, we can form our own videos related to our lessons with it. These functions contribute our learning on a large scale. Tablet not only contributes our learning but also provide communicating with people since it is designed to contact with the internet. We can easily connect to the social media sites, talk with our family and friends, research any subject, and read or watch the latest news. Tablet provides students to access the information easily and fast. Thanks to its internet connection, students can make search in any subject for their lesson and look up in any word which they do not know or they wonder. Tablets have a large memory and we can store a lot of information on a tablet. We can store movies and novels inside it, so we can read novel or we can watch movie whenever we want.

The third benefit of using the tablet is that it is a portable device. We can bring it where we go, so we can study lesson where we are in a classroom, at the library, at home, or at bus station. This feature of tablet makes it the more preferred product and makes it more common in society. Before tablet, students are carrying the heavy bags and they are very tired. Tablet has all lesson sources inside it. As it is a portable tool, it provides learning easily whenever we want and wherever we are. For example, while we are travelling, we can study lesson, listen videos from it, or read a book easily and comfortably not like a book. It is also comfortable to use everywhere. We can use it with one hand easily. That it is a portable device makes longer the learning process, so it should be used in schools.

To sum up, as we have seen, we can learn information from books by reading, taking notes, or seeing from pictures but tablet offers us a lot of ways to learn. We can learn from tablets writing, reading, watching, listening and tablets support the learning with materials such as graphs and charts. So, tablets called electronic books should be used in schools as they make our learning more permanent and easy, they have a lot of functions, and they are used and taken anywhere and anytime easily.