An increasing number of schools provide tablets and laptop computers for students to use in school, replacing books and other printed materials like exams and assignments. What are the advantages and disadvantages of this trend?

Schools have always been evolving. Earlier, schools required students to bring their own notebooks.

Then

, they started providing their own books, now they are providing tablets and laptops. While

this

brings in modernisation, may believe

this

trend is making students lazier. In

this

essay, let's discuss both these viewpoints. One advantage of giving computers, tablets and other digital instruments to students is that they are going future ready as it enables youngsters to

pickup

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pick up

digital skills. Another benefit is that, when younger generations familiarise themselves with these tools, there is no learning curve involved in using them at a later stage of their life. It becomes easier to track progress of students. With

help

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the help

of targeted content delivery and numerous other tools in its disposal,

digitalization

conversion of analog information into digital information

digitization

can be called

next

-generation in terms of schooling.

On the other hand

, there is very high

probablity

a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; a number expressing the ratio of favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible

probability

that these might be

mis-used

used incorrectly or carelessly or for an improper purpose

misused

missed

. Students should use these gadgets only for educational purposes and they should be monitored. But, it should be done is

such

a way that, it doesn't intrude their privacy. Digital equipments are prone to hacking, care must be taken to ensure

preventive

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preventative

measures are taken and data protection laws are followed. In most countries using books have become "old-school" but many other developing countries still use them. Given that there are both positives and negatives in any technology, we should keep in mind that, we should be open for changes. We need to make sure these new tech should be evaluated thoroughly before enforcing them on students.