However, there is one advantage I have noticed about the use of ICT on this course and that is uploading our ICT work onto EPS. This process feels a lot less cluttered than the mountains of physical paperwork we need to keep for other subjects. Whilst at a previous job I would frequently be told that we were now a paper-less society where every task was carried out on the computer, at the same time as being told that I needed to make a hard copy (and by that they meant on paper of course) of everything I had just done on the computer; twice the work for half the success.
I feel that if we really want to be a paper-less society then we should just bite the bullet and go for it, no more second copies to be housed in filing cabinets the length of the room.
I would need to draw the line at books though; they are designed to be made of paper and no matter how cleverly engineered e-books may be they will never be able to replicate opening a new book for the first time, the sound of pages turning and a wonderful array of bookshelves brimming with paper- and hardbacks. I will say the same for newspapers, I can only tolerate reading a very short newspaper article online, I would much rather have a real one on the table in front of me.
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I agree. I find it difficult to make assignments on-line. I certainly do not pick up as many typographical, spelling and punctuation errors, but perhaps that is because I am more used to marking on paper.
There are some extremely interesting developments with 'digital' paper. For instance, a paper thin plastic film which can be rolled, folded and packed away which can be anything - a book, a newspaper, a map with built in GPS, a TV or even a DVD player. The sheet is essentially a computer, with the relevant content downloaded s required. How cool is that?
Until then, I will stick to reading my book in bed.
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