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    Online textbooks have several advantages over traditional hardcopy textbooks. They can save schools between $250-$1000 per student per year on textbook costs as online textbooks are 50-60% cheaper than hardcopies. Online textbooks also take up less physical space since thousands can be stored on a single tablet, reducing the weight students carry in their backpacks and potentially lowering injury rates. Studies also show that using online textbooks with interactive features can improve student test scores by 20% compared to traditional textbooks alone. For these reasons, online textbooks provide a more cost effective, efficient, and effective alternative to traditional hardcopy textbooks.

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    Online textbooks have several advantages over traditional hardcopy textbooks. They can save schools between $250-$1000 per student per year on textbook costs as online textbooks are 50-60% cheaper than hardcopies. Online textbooks also take up less physical space since thousands can be stored on a single tablet, reducing the weight students carry in their backpacks and potentially lowering injury rates. Studies also show that using online textbooks with interactive features can improve student test scores by 20% compared to traditional textbooks alone. For these reasons, online textbooks provide a more cost effective, efficient, and effective alternative to traditional hardcopy textbooks.

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    Online textbooks have several advantages over traditional hardcopy textbooks. They can save schools between $250-$1000 per student per year on textbook costs as online textbooks are 50-60% cheaper than hardcopies. Online textbooks also take up less physical space since thousands can be stored on a single tablet, reducing the weight students carry in their backpacks and potentially lowering injury rates. Studies also show that using online textbooks with interactive features can improve student test scores by 20% compared to traditional textbooks alone. For these reasons, online textbooks provide a more cost effective, efficient, and effective alternative to traditional hardcopy textbooks.

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    Starrett I

    Ben Starrett
    Mr. Starkey
    Gifted English 8
    4 March 2016
    Online Textbooks Versus Hardcopies
    Did you know that Online textbooks cost fifty to sixty percent less than hardcopies! The
    controversial issue of online textbooks or hardcopies is a widely debated issue that has been discussed for
    years. Online textbooks and hardcopies both have many advantages and disadvantages. Online
    textbooks are much more efficient and more cost effective than hardcopies. Hardcopies are currently
    failing to do what online textbooks could easily do. Online textbooks will help schools in various
    ways.
    One reason for online textbooks instead of hard copies is that they take less room to store.
    According to the US Consumer Product Safety Commission, during the 2011-2012 school year more than
    13,700 kids, aged 5 to 18, were treated for backpack-related injuries (Dallas). With online textbooks
    there would be almost no backpack related injuries. An Amazon Kindle Fire can hold approximately
    1,000 books in a gigabyte, when they have 8-64 gigabytes of space (Price). One textbook weighs 2-5
    times more than a tablet! A tablet that holds 3,500 books weighed a billionth of a billionth of a pound
    heavier than before the books were added, the weight of DNA, while the same amount of hardcopies
    would weigh around 2 tons (Ray). In conclusion, online textbooks are easier to carry around and weigh a
    ton less than hardcopies.
    A second reason for online textbooks instead of hardcopies is that they are more cost effective
    than hardcopies. According to a 2012 report from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), K-12

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    school districts spend more than $8 billion per year on textbooks (FCC). E-textbooks can save schools
    between $250-$1,000 per student per year (Electronista). It is also proven that tablets that are each
    capable of holding thousands of online textbooks cost 50-60 percent less than hardcopies (Ricknas).
    While the counterclaim that children read slower and interpret slower on online textbooks may be true in
    some cases, it has been proven that technology-based instruction can reduce the time students take to
    reach a learning objective by 30-80%, according to the US Department of Education and studies by the
    National Training and Simulation Association (FCC). This proves that that tablets help students learn
    material faster.
    A final reason for online textbooks instead of hard copies is that they have been proven to
    improve test scores. As said before, technology-based instruction can reduce the time students take to
    reach a learning objective by 30-80% (FCC). Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt tested an interactive,
    digital version of an Algebra 1 textbook for Apple's iPad in California's Riverside Unified School District.
    Students who used the iPad version scored 20 percent higher on standardized tests versus students who
    learned with traditional textbooks (Maragioglio). This shows that online textbooks help make test scores
    higher than hardcopies.
    Online textbooks are much better than hardcopies for various reasons. Online textbooks and
    hardcopies both have advantages and disadvantages. These advantages and disadvantages have been
    widely debated throughout time (since they were made). Online textbooks cost less, take less space, and
    are proven to improve test scores. Would you not want these benefits in your school? Then if not, keep
    the old, dusty, and wasteful hardcopies, instead of the new, efficient, and money saving online textbooks.
    These are just a few of the hundreds of thousands of reasons to embrace technology. This should
    convince the schools of our great nation and others to throw out their old textbooks and get online
    miracles.

    Starrett III
    Works Cited
    1. Mary Elizabeth Dallas, "Overloaded Backpacks Can Injure Kids: Experts," nlm.nih.gov, Aug. 26,
    2012
    2. Emily Price, "How Much Storage Does Your Tablet Need?," www.tecca.com, Mar. 3, 2012
    3. C. Claiborne Ray, "The Weight of Memory," nytimes.com, Oct. 24, 2011
    4. Federal Communications Commission, "Digital Textbook Playbook," (2.55 MB) www.fcc.gov,
    Feb. 1, 2012
    5. Electronista, "Digital Textbooks May Save Schools $250 Per Student Per Year," electronista.com,
    Mar. 30, 2012
    6. Mikael Ricknas, "Average Tablet Price Drops to $386, Says IMS Research,
    www.computerworld.com, June 8, 2012
    7. Janet Maragioglio, "iPads Boost Math Scores, Benefit Education," mobiledia.com, Jan. 31, 2012

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