The Decline of Newspapers-5

With all of this new technology that continues to appear we see the decline of books and newspapers in their hard copy form. I think that many people love reading the newspaper and a book while holding the actual copy in their hand, myself included. But I agree with the author of Steve Jobs biography in saying that Apple has in fact revolutionized the publishing industry with IPhones and the IPad. The price of textbooks is outrageous and some teachers require us to have them only to barely use them throughout the semester. It’s frustrating to have to pay all of that money to carry round a heavy book that you don’t use. I’ ve always heard that online textbooks were cheaper but I’ve never really looked into them. Seeing the video of how the IPad works and all of the special extras they have made me want one for myself. It would be so helpful to not have to make notecards for book chapters and have 3-D pictures of the things I was learning. I know a local private school that requires every student to have an IPad. A fellow teacher, and friend, said that she records all of her lessons and puts them online for the students to watch. She is only in the room for the children to ask her questions. The kids do all of their schoolwork on their Apple devices. The advance that Apple is making through online textbooks and other special features is a pretty cool thing. Whether we like it or not, Apple is changing the way we do our work and online textbooks are changing the way we learn. I don’t know if we will ever take out hard copies completely but the way our society is moving, it wouldn’t surprise me.