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The digitization of textbooks makes it easy to explain a logical structure, but students’ academic ability will not improve in classes if they are completely reliant on digital textbooks. The ability

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Yuki Aoyama, a teacher at Ogu Primary School in Tokyo's Arakawa Ward, referring to concerns over a plan to digitize textbooks. Some parents worried over the health impact on their children as well as the cost of tablets. (Yomiuri Shimbun)

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Find digital instructor also, like Cortana of Windows 10 (!)

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I don't understand the health concerns. Are they worried about bad eyesight or something. Anyways, I only had a digital textbook once, and that's while I was in college. I loved it actually. I was able to save a lot on the price of the textbook (and college textbooks are ridiculously expensive). So I think this definitely could be a positive thing.

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Ugh, another QotD that strips its words of so much context that they're practically meaningless. Is Aoyama fully against digital textbooks, or does he just have concerns? Exactly what sort of health impact does he think they have? Which plan exactly is he referring to, and what are its exact requirements? A researched article could be written on this topic that informs its readers and maybe influences stakeholders in this issue to make better choices. But instead we're left with an ambiguous quote to throw our preconceptions on, effectively rendering the participants in the discussion at best as unpaid volunteer researchers for JT and at worst cheerleaders for our own (potentially uninformed) preconceived notions.

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