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Shep Medlin
K. Mount
English 9
12 February 2016
Persuasive Speech
Good Morning everyone, I’m glad you could make it today. Don’t you hate
having to carry around your binder along with all of your heavy books all day long? Kids
have always had to carry around school books at school adding to the massive amount of
stuff that they already had to lug around. We are now getting to a point in technology
where the possibility to partially or even completely replace our textbooks with net books
is here. Although, you might ask what a net book is. A net book is smaller, lighter, and
cheaper version of a laptop that has the potential to change the way we look at school. I
am for this textbook revolution. I think it is time that we have one less thing to carry
around.
The average high school sophomore carries around 20 lbs. of textbooks every day.
This can potentially cause health problems for students when they are carrying all of
these around in their backpack. On the other hand the average net book weighs only
around 2-3 pounds and it can store all of our textbooks on it. The average net book would
also be much thinner than all of our textbooks. This would make it easier to carry around
all of the information you need, not just class to class, but also from school to home. You
may be thinking this is good and all but what about money. Well the good news is with
the rapid development of technology net books are getting cheaper and cheaper all the
time.
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When you were or are in school, could you just never get what the teacher was
saying because you couldn’t listen to a long lecture or just copy down what she/he was
writing down on the board? Did you have to actually physically do something yourself to
understand what they were saying? Well net books can help with all of that. Net books
are way more interactive than normal textbooks and other traditional methods of
teaching. With a net book a kid can be reading a textbook, and then they can go over to
Microsoft Word and take notes, and then go on the internet to look for a video that would
help them understand the subject better. Imagine if you came home from school and you
actually remembered half the stuff you learned that day or you take a test that was usually
really hard but because you have been using your net book you understood the subject
better and did better on the test.
It is time that we replace our old, used, and worn out textbooks with net books.
They are lighter, more interactive, more fun, and in some cases, cheaper. Do you want
yourself or your kids to do better and understand more in school? Well if you answered
yes we should go out and replace our textbooks with laptops now!
Sources
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Rachel , Martin, and Brouwer Christine. "Schools Dump Textbooks for iPods, Laptops."
abc news. N.p., 13 Sept. 2009. Web. 3 Feb. 2012.
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"Should we replace our textbooks with laptop computers." portfolio.educ.kent.edu. N.p.,
n.d. Web. 3 Feb. 2012. <http://portfolio.educ.kent.edu/humphreya/Issue3/>.
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