In an ever-growing world, filled with new technologies every day, we need to bring in the new and out with the old. One of these old things we should get rid of are school textbooks and replace them with tablets. At first glance this topic seems silly because we have been using textbooks for as long as we can all remember, but a lot has changed in a short amount of time. In the twenty-first century we have gone from gigantic computers that could execute very few commands to mobile devices that can access the Internet at any time at the touch of a button, and everything can fit in your pocket. Textbooks are large, bulky books that are a nuisance for students. The tablet is a great innovation that the school system should use because it is an overall smarter choice than textbooks. Tablets are more beneficial to our education system because they weigh less than textbooks, it costs less to produce tablets than to print textbooks, and tablets can instantly update to new editions. First, many schools teach from books that are usually four or five years out of date. The material in these books is old and some of it may have changed due to new discoveries and better techniques on how to teach students. Subjects that are constantly changing in our world, such as biology and computer science, rely on the right material to be taught in school, otherwise students will be misinformed, but teachers cannot teach their students the right material with the book of wrong text. It is vital to students' education that they learn the latest material available and this is possible with the new innovation of tablets. This will not only help kids learn the right material, but it will also save the school money because they won't have to keep buying new software and......half as much paper......more textbooks printed in them . Textbooks cost schools across the nation too much money every year when they could be spending that precious money on something else like camps and renovations, but instead they spend it on textbooks that will become obsolete in a couple of years, so they will have to simply make him buy them again. Tablet prices also continue to drop on a yearly basis, which could be extremely beneficial for schools if they take advantage of it because tablets won't always drop to such low prices. Over the long term, schools spend more money on textbooks than anything else, about $8 billion a year for schools nationwide. This is a ridiculously large amount of money we could save. After all, there are hundreds more reasons to replace old printed textbooks with new tablet technology. (Alvarez)