Notebooks instead of staplers and fountain pens. Should students from grade 5 onwards have to name a notebook their own?

As we all know, we're a bit behind in digitalization in Germany.

So I wonder how this could be changed and I suddenly think of the increased use of notebooks in schools. For example, from grade 5 onwards, students should only write with (specially made for the school) notebooks and do their jobs. I think paper and pen are out of date. In my opinion, it would be as early as possible to get children used to digital media.

Lenovo has already introduced the first (good) school notebooks. Should not be too expensive in the one-time purchase of the specs.

(https://www.computerbase.de/2020-08/6-watt-apus-amd-3015e-3020e-notebook-schule/)

how do you see it? Notebook instead of fountain pen and stapler? Pro or contra?

I do not see any major disadvantage in this, but with books, notebooks and pens, books are used for 15 years in a row, are worn and partly not up to date. The students drag themselves with all the utensils and in the end someone gets some postural damage.

Paper and pen may be out of date, but handwriting is a little more than storing information.

Above all, the haptic, as the interaction of muscles, nerves and brain play a much larger role than you would normally assume.

Of course, all students can / should have a laptop by now, but it's a balancing act.

Especially in the 5.6 and 7 class, the concentration would only be given to the NoteBook and not the necessary lessons, and what's so bad about writing with a normal pen?

What for? What changes when you write on notebooks, except that you forget to write properly and you strain your fingers? Do you somehow understand computers better when you're in Word all the time? A good math and, if necessary, computer science lesson, where you learn logical thinking and abstraction, would be much more useful, which you can also apply to computers. In addition, technologies should be used sensibly in the classroom, so that you have an advantage (which is not the case with unhealthy typing, which I personally find extremely unpleasant and creatively restrictive, by the way), e.g. You can do research on the Internet (by me from also during the lesson with a notebook provided by the school) or one could also solve problems at school with the computer, which can then be roughly digitally improved so that the teacher receives continuous feedback on whether the students are coming and so on they have problems etc.

But I don't think much of writing on a PC

Yes, books can be made digitally, but why should one write digitally?

In addition yes, but abolish no.

Not at that age.

The kiddis have just started writing a few years before and are still developing their handwriting and reading other manuscripts.

If you completely switch to tools that take over the spelling and partly grammar and still deliver a uniform typeface, the mMn is not expedient.

Then you have tons of people who can no longer read manuscripts and can't write long texts (which comes later) by hand.

And at the latest when exams are not written electronically, you have a problem.

There are subjects that benefit. There's no question but it must be used in a targeted manner.

Books as ebooks are always useful, for example, without any extra weight.

And research work is definitely more effective.

The cost of the books is less the paper than the right one.

EBooks will not necessarily be more up to date than paper books.

In any case, the school or anyone else has to spend money on new versions.

And here you still have the infrastructure that can become outdated. Who knows what laptops look like in many children's hands after 15 years.