Nowadays schools should not use textbooks because children get bored with books. Using games, computers and TV is a better way to give them new information and knowledge. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?

 

Nowadays schools should not use textbooks because children get bored with books. Using games, computers and TV is a better way to give them new information and knowledge. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?

Of late many progressive educationalists have been pushing for replacing conventional books with modern methods such as  games, computers  and TV for imparting learning at formal tuition, citing it to be more appealing than the  latter though this has also fetched flak from the several quarters.   

Books are no longer required when learners can be imparted knowledge with the help of modern means that carry numerous benefits. These methods  will allow students to learn at their own pace since these e-books can be accessed from any media device and also can be resumed from where they have left. Moreover, it will provide ease of use since numerous material from a single device which saves them from the mundane task of carrying books of different subjects along everyday to the school.

Moreover, the appealing mix of sound – narration accompanied with music- and graphics – that may contain,  videos,  animation, pictures and figures as a part of the content  – present a potentially more attractive technique of learning and transferring knowledge: accessing these mediums can provide easy comprehensible inputs which can be not effortlessly grasped but also retained for long periods, by all, making learning an enriching experience.

Nevertheless,  many spar over this suggestion fearing that such leaning although may feed more information than the traditional arrangement, the young learners are bound to become bereft of imagination, eventually obliterating their creativity and critical thinking. However, induce young minds to visualize what they  read, consequently augmenting their resourcefulness. Depriving young minds of printed  text could have unwarranted consequences.

Overall, superseding books with modern methods will not be in favor of young learners in my view. Although the onslaught of  technology into the education cannot be stemmed, it should be integrated with other methods rather than being made the only means.