The ECS V300 Tablet PC ( there are several models and brands in the market.)

Mr Brown probably mentioned this in his column before. when the school promotes/ encourage the students to buy a tablet PC. This tablet supposed to ease the weight of the infamous heavy school bag. the tablets supposed to assist the teachers in teaching as well as conducting the test.

i remembered my mum yelling at me why my bag was heavy in the primary school and then virtually weightless in secondary on the account that the textbooks in secondary school are thicker and heavy with respect to 4 subjects to 9 subjects. i told my mum i dunno what to bring in primary school. i don't know what is the timetable for and practically brought everything to school, i.e. if there's no science lessons, you will still find a science textbook in the my bag.

carry forward this habit secondary school. partially on laziness. and laziness won the war such that i left my textbooks in the school taking in account that there's no afternoon sessions sharing the same classrooms. so my school bag mainly housed the textbook(s) that is needed for homeworks. plus....ermm...a T-shirt( which i wore after school... well you know, there's activities after school, outside school compound..kekek..plus my uniform is ugly.)

Now that tablets been introduced in education route. does it means the bags gonna be heavier or schools encourage parents to buy those high-end light-weighted tablets? it cost a bomb. Or the school gonna have their desks custom-made/ fitted with tablets. does it also means there's a increase in school fees?

now, the worries is no longer the mechanical pencil has no lead , the pen runs out of ink, the joker sitting at the rearer row is dozing off during the lesson hiding behind the standing-upright textbook, etc. the new worries if the power-supply got cut off during the commence of tests/exams, the forever invading virus attacks, etc. the optical and IT shops sure got a boost in their sales in the demand for tablets, the repairing of tablets due to mischief of the young owners; more and more teenagers wearing contacts or spectacles due to the constant visual contact with the screens.

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.... in the midst of the test..

student raised his hand: " Teacher teacher, my tablet screen went off after i wrote something ."

anxious teacher: " what happened? let me take a look."

found a few small holes on the screen ,teacher: " you silly boy, don't dot so hard on the screen for the full-stops. it spoils the screen."

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