What are the advantages and disadvantages of increasing number of schools providing tablets and laptop computer for students to use in school replacing books and other printed materials such as exams and assignments.

Our society is becoming technically advanced at a really fast and unprecedented rate. A lot of people even 15 years ago wouldn't have thought that the medium of education will become

highly

Suggestion

a highly technology

technology

dependent. I believe that the advantages of using tablets, laptops and other equipment for students far outweigh the disadvantages. Various researches have shown that using electronic medium for studies has a positive impact on de-forestation and the air quality index, meaning there is less demand for raw material to make paper which ultimately leads to decreased production. With

current global climate situation

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the current global climate situation

we should be making every effort possible to reduce the cutting of trees and pollution. Another big advantage in my opinion is that the children now have to carry less load in their bags. During my school days I had to carry multiple books in my

school-bag

a bag for carrying school books and supplies

schoolbag

and my shoulders would always hurt. It is a boon for the students who are already living a stressed-out life due to high expectations and multiple other factors, so not having to carry the books makes it one less thing to worry about.

On the other hand

, depending too much on

technology

can be

detremental

(sometimes followed by 'to') causing harm or injury

detrimental

sometimes. In case of a big level

technology

failure we

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failure, we

could lose all the stored data used to make it functional.

Such

restoration will put a massive burden on the economy of the state. Another disadvantage could be that children may forget the art of

hand-writing

something written by hand

handwriting

handwritten

if they do not get enough stimulation for it. In conclusion, we should keep striding forward to make our

technology

fail-proof and at the same time we should encourage our children to use

hand-writing

something written by hand

handwriting

for at least certain tasks.

This

way we will be able to preserve the heritage of

hand-writing

something written by hand

handwriting

of different languages.