This document discusses the potential for using tablets instead of textbooks in Philippine schools. It notes that while tablets are still futuristic for many private schools, technology is increasingly impacting education. The disadvantages of textbooks are that they are heavy and expensive to produce and distribute on a large scale. Tablets are seen as a potential solution that could ease the physical and financial burden while also developing students' digital literacy skills. Some schools are working with technology companies to design customized tablet solutions tailored for education.

1. Bicol University
College of Agriculture and Forestry
Guinobatan, Albay

2. For Philippine schools, even in private ones catering
to children of the well-to-do families, the so-called
Tablet-for-learning is still futuristic. Given, however, the
recognized impact of technology in education, the future
maynot be too faraway.

3. …books are still the primary medium of instruction in
most schools.
 But there are now perceptions that virtual literacy
may very well ease out textual print literacy.

5.  The disadvantages of using books for learning are
debated upon.
 The load of books and workbooks for every subject
is backbreaking due to their weight and size.

6.  In developing
countries, one-book
for every student is
still a goal, not a
reality.
 Publishing and
printing millions of
books for millions of
public school children
are too expensive for
the public purse.

7. Today,
technology
is being
viewed as a
savior.

8. Computer games have been adopted in
developed countries as a learning technology
along with other audio-visual aids to
teaching-and-learning.

9.  Educational video gaming has been shown to
inculcate competencies that relate to
learning concentration, lasting memory recall
and higher visual literacy.

12.  Administrators, teachers, parents and other
stakeholders have met to discuss the use of
Tablets as a primary learning tool to replace
the textbook.
 It was argued that young students carry many
heavy books to school, which can be
physically burdensome.

14.  Information technology product
manufacturers have given the De La Salle
school support by way of customized tablet
designs that are conducive to higher thinking,
constructive and participative teaching-and-
learning.