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Recommended: Students should use laptops in classrooms

Advances in technology have drowned the human race. Even though these advances have their countless benefits, they also have their downsides. Along the same lines, replacing high school textbooks with laptop computers does have some advantages, but also has many disadvantages. Laptops in high schools are a huge distraction for students, they are very expensive to initially buy and maintain, and they can cause many health problems. Replacing textbooks with laptops in high schools ignores the negative effects on students, leading one to conclude that it is a terrible idea.
Laptops in school are a bad idea because they would provide students with a constant source of distraction. Matt Richtel is the winner of “Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting” for his article in The New York Times. Mr. Richtel wrote“[Laptop] computers and cellphones, and the constant stream of stimuli they offer, pose a profound new challenge to focusing and learning” (Richtel). Students will stray away from their schoolwork and waste time on less important distractions like social networking and media such as Twitter and YouTube. There is a clear relationship between laptop use in class and a lower overall course performance (CanWest News Service). It is apparent now that laptops put students at a disadvantage, and that textbooks would be the better learning tool. Carrie Fried, a very well respected researcher at Winona State University stated in an interview“[Laptops] clearly did interfere with students learning the material, and it was clearly a distraction for everyone around them” (Fried). Laptops may bring exciting new technology to the classroom, but this will only be at the cost of students’ focus in class, which draws away from their initial purpose¬¬¬...

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