Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath said older generations “screwed up” giving students access to so much technology: “I genuinely hope Gen Z quickly figures that out and gets mad.”
Why does it have to be a tablet? Most physics and math probles are already solved in ipython notebooks. Seeing immediate rich features is crazy good for learning.
As for book unique benefits - yes but that can be replicated with software very well if not better. For example having an infinite board is incredible for mind mapping and just as an efficient work space.
We could argue day and night about benefits and capabilities of each form but reality is that software is incredibly important in our society today and yet people are still mostly software illiterate. Even if tablets and computers were worse than pens and textbooks it would still be more valuable to use them to expand general computer use skills.
Why does it have to be a tablet? Most physics and math probles are already solved in ipython notebooks. Seeing immediate rich features is crazy good for learning.
As for book unique benefits - yes but that can be replicated with software very well if not better. For example having an infinite board is incredible for mind mapping and just as an efficient work space.
We could argue day and night about benefits and capabilities of each form but reality is that software is incredibly important in our society today and yet people are still mostly software illiterate. Even if tablets and computers were worse than pens and textbooks it would still be more valuable to use them to expand general computer use skills.