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Peter and Sarah discuss the pros and cons of switching to electronic textbooks. Peter argues that electronic textbooks are more convenient since students can access them anywhere and take notes easily. However, Sarah points out students may be distracted by other electronics and it's difficult to reference notes or keep the same page numbers when text sizes differ. Peter acknowledges Sarah's points but adds that electronic textbooks allow for more interactive materials. Both agree the future of education is moving towards more digital "paperless" classrooms.

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EP3 Audio Text Listening

Peter and Sarah discuss the pros and cons of switching to electronic textbooks. Peter argues that electronic textbooks are more convenient since students can access them anywhere and take notes easily. However, Sarah points out students may be distracted by other electronics and it's difficult to reference notes or keep the same page numbers when text sizes differ. Peter acknowledges Sarah's points but adds that electronic textbooks allow for more interactive materials. Both agree the future of education is moving towards more digital "paperless" classrooms.

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Sarah: So, what do you think about switching over to electronic textbooks in the

classroom?

Peter: That’s a really good question, it’s one I've been debating myself for quite some
time. I think, I’m mostly for it because I think the textbooks tend to be quite heavy to carry
around, students carry a lot, have to carry a lot of them around. And having it in a digital
form is much easier for students to access, it’s very convenient. They can carry most of
their textbooks in one kind of tablet or one on their phones and access it anywhere. And
it's easily ... obviously easily transportable but also easily accessible wherever you are
really. I think it’s also with technology improving, you can change the format of the reading
that you’re doing in the textbook and the font sizes change and you can highlight and
change text if you need to. I’ve also started using it myself and I think it’s become much
easier taking notes, I just open up a document next to it and add notes as I read. Yeah,
I’m mostly for it. What about you?

Sarah: I see the advantages for it as well but I also see many disadvantages. First
disadvantage I see is, students if it’s on an electronic device they'll be more tempted to
do other things other than what they're supposed to be doing with their textbook. As well
is I see as a problem for writing in the book as far as notes. Although you can write notes
in there, it’s hard to reference back to them or hard to reference back certain pages,
because I myself have used electronic textbook in the past and found that for regular
books as far as reading, it’s great but textbooks it’s very difficult in the class if some people
have regular textbooks and some people have electronic textbooks, trying to figure out
what page everyone is on because if you have different text sizes then perhaps it'll be a
different page numbers and it just makes it more difficult for trying to all be on the same
page.

Peter: Yeah, I can kind of see your point. Although, what I do like about the electronic
textbook so that they’ve got a lot of interactive material that you can directly link to the
text that you're using like any animated materials, videos, other online material that you
can access immediately whereas if you have a book you don’t have that more interactive
component. And as a teacher I think it’s easier for me to add anything as the lesson goes
on or as the course proceeds to just add more things to it, whereas with a textbook you're
kind of more bound I guess, you have to stick to the text and the online experience just
opens up many more possibilities, I think. And it’s all in the same medium so you know
that I find really great.

Sarah: Yeah, I would agree with you and I think that’s the way the future is going,
definitely for education is to go, they're calling it paperless, I think. I know many schools
in the US are going paperless where they're doing all electronic things in the classroom.
They all have iPads so it’s very interesting.

Peter: Yeah it is.

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