 Assalamu alaikum everybody what up how's everyone doing I hope the late night family is doing well tonight is episode 28 of hashtag LNT now you know me I'm coming to your live Ahmed Ali from the holy city of Karbala and as you know the late night talk choose the best topic to talk about it especially in this 30-day Ramadan series now 28 days 28 nights if you want to be nights but that means only two or three days left three more episodes or two more episodes depending on when they see the question and so on and so forth that means you only have two or three more chances to have your name placed in that final draw but tonight's topic I know the school year is over and all that and everyone's relaxed everyone is out of their depression moments of you know preparing for exams they're chilling summers here but tonight's topic is about how you how it will make you decide and how you should study in next year but let's go take a quick break and come back very short talk about what's trending welcome back the viewers hope everyone is enjoying their night now tonight it's a very interesting what's trending for you guys now Haid al-Abadi the Prime Minister of Iraq said on Tuesday that he opposed any repeat of the elections that was done on May 12th and he warned that anyone that does sabotage the political process will be punished and severely punished you know it's about time shorty comes out and says something good but the parliament has the maddenation wide reelection but Haid al-Abadi as he said anyone that does that and the only the only person or the only party that can say that is the Supreme Court of Iraq who can declare such a such a decision the parliament has no saying to that only the Supreme Court of Iraq now let's go jump in to another what's trending at least two people were held hostage in Paris on Tuesday spokesperson of Paris police says there was no indication of the incident that was you know tears tears and related but the hostage young women and a woman young girl and the women who were evacuated from the scene by the police later on France has been a state of the high alert you know with with the stabbings with the hostage taking and so on and so forth hopefully everyone is safe you know stay safe and hopefully everyone that doesn't have to fall into such situations but let's go jump into tonight's topic because I'm excited welcome back dear viewers now with the advancement of the modern day technology and with our kids being in school using paper textbooks the demand to switch from paper textbooks and the old school books to new technologies is on a demand a lot of people are demanding this now tablets are a $72 billion industry with 42% of the US adults possessing and using a tablet any form of tablet or e-reader now now the demand on switch they're trying to switch from old-fashioned old-school textbooks to electronic textbooks aka tablets or e-readers they want to start it from kindergarten all the way up to grade 12 and a lot of reasons they say there are pros and there are cons now supporters of this say it's much lighter you need to print a lot it's safer for the environment you know it's easy to access it's lighter than carrying a hundred books when you can have it in one you know simple tablet there's a knife on a tablet but you know it's easier to carry on just a simple tablet however the others the opposers of such an idea the opposers of the switch to this modern day technology are saying that you know it's expensive first of all it's expensive when they go when they get outdated you have to buy a new one and it's costly you have to pay a lot to buy or you have to pay a lot to fix it and you know it's time consuming this to fix it as well depending on who you take it to might take several days several weeks so that's important to keep in mind as well others are saying it's bad for the eyesight for me I just go by a retina display but you know others they maybe don't have the idea but anyways tonight we're trying to talk about something important you know everyone nowadays especially me when I was in university I had to spend thousands of dollars on textbooks similar to all the university students now not a lot of them not a lot of the books are you know are available on the e-readers or are on on on the tablets so what do we do we go spending thousands of dollars you know giving back to university thousands of dollars accumulating to billions of dollars depending on which university to go to what books you're buying to the students but tonight on hashtag NT we try to find out one thing and we're trying to ask you one thing at school what do you prefer to use textbooks or tablets in schools that's your question for tonight very simply textbooks or tablets in schools so what you have to do pick up your phone open what's up you have to unlock it first open what's up dial that number shown below plus nine six four seven seven four zero six seven eighteen thirty six you can 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quick break let me drink some water and come back to talk about more on the biggest hit in the industry right now tablets versus textbooks according to to many academic reports 2012 was the year that really hit it hard for that hit the home run or say for tablets though the year that almost a lot of people you know it's a huge percentage of people that they were using tablets instead of smartphones and desktop or laptop computers now as of January 2014 the US adults that owned a tablet computer was 32 percent 42 32 percent 42 percent sorry 32 of them owned a e-reader and 50 percent of that population either had a tablet computer or an e-reader it went up from 29 percent since of August 2012 so we do see the huge rise in numbers and percentage and how many people are using tablets and e-readers nowadays this is according to P Pew Research project on the internet now approximately 227 million tablets were shipped in 2013 and predicted you know in the near future as of 2020 the industry of tablets could reach 70 billion dollars wow 70 billion dollars industry just for tablets this is crazy you know if someone was to was to think about that and trying to comprehend that idea 72 billion or 70 billion dollars and you know 43% of Westerners if you look at social meter right now any news that you want to get no one's buying papers newspapers no one you know for me when I want to try to you know check out what's going back what's going on in Canada I just go on the Hamilton spectator download the the newspaper of the day read it Toronto star Toronto Sun I just go and look at what's going on so basically everyone right now 43% are using e-readers and tablets in Western country social media as soon as you open it this thing happened in Paris some random attack happened in somewhere else you get notifications even from YouTube now you get notifications if you subscribe to specific channel so we do see that you know news education everything social media and tablets and e-readers made it so easy for people to get to know everything that's going on not e-readers but tablets and smartphones and social media made it so easy for everyone just to access and know everything about the world you know just at the fingertips right there five fingertips unlock with the thumb and use the index finger now we do remind everyone to call in let us know what you think because tonight's question is all about you students out there going through university so what you have to do is pick up the phone down the number shown right there at the bottom and let us know what you think about tonight's question tablets or textbooks in schools which one do you prefer all you got to do is call us and there's a text message voice message let us take a quick break and come back very very short once again we do welcome everyone for joining us tonight now for the dear viewers who are just tuning in right now you guys if you're wondering what we're talking about we're talking about very important topic that is about to revolutionize studying everywhere around the world we're talking about tablets or textbooks in your schools which one do you prefer now even blackboards and whiteboards are now being switched with smart smart boards so you know it's a it's a huge you know evolution we're going through if I may say of what's going on from blackboards to smart boards from textbooks to tablets and e-readers now the most important questions should schools make that switch should schools starting from kindergarten ending up in grade 12 switch from using a textbook coloring in coloring books you know adding numbers and stuff should they switch from that and go to tablets or should they stick to to the old school textbooks and now go to the electronic versions of textbooks now we gathered some pro and cons for you but I want to start with the pros and then go to the cons now one of the cons is that you know a lot of people are saying nowadays that according to the US Department of Education students when they're using tablets their their ability to learn is a lot quicker than textbooks you know technology based instruction can reduce the time spent or the time to take to reach the learning objective because honestly with a textbook you have to go through page by page and you can't search but with a tablet just hit that search button look for that word look for that sentence pops up that's it you have right there so you know you're reducing at least at least if you have like a 500 hard copy textbook you know you're spending half an hour less just to look for that answer that you're looking for that's the first pro now the second pro 81% of kindergarten to grade 12 teachers are saying that tablets enrich classroom education why do they believe that because they've concluded according to the public broadcast service that 77% of teachers found technology to increase student motivation to learn you know if you have students who are in grade five and you know in grade five you're like what a nine maybe ten and for them if the teachers bringing tablets or if the schools introducing tablets they're gonna be motivated to learn on those tablets because textbooks are boring for me I'm not saying for you but for me textbooks are boring so if I was in grade five I'd rather hold a tablet in my hand because first it looks a lot cooler than textbook and second it makes my life way easier although I didn't know at that time but you know I just looks good now the other pro of switching from old-school textbooks to new technology tablets or e-readers is that the tablets can hold hundreds of books if not thousands of books depending on your storage on your tablet or on on your on your smartphone now with that being said I'd like to I'd like to take your attention towards something very important now you know as I mentioned it holds a lot you know you can have quizzes on that you can have exams previous exams you can look at the questions predict what the future exam is gonna look like now when Iraq we have suffered day every other day internet gets cut out from 7 a.m. up until 10 10 30 11 a.m. why because the results or the answers for the exam on that same day is being released half an hour before the exam so right there that's a huge advantage having a tablet and someone sending you the answers which to the exam you're having in 30 minutes you know I'm not saying I take advantage but I would take advantage of that because I'll try to get that 100 but let's take a text message that we got from fuzzy moon again okay from Trinidad tablets or tablet we are in the technology age so we have to keep up else the children will be left behind less weights on their backs of course and saves less saves the trees so the earth would be cooler thank you very much fuzzy moon from Trinidad once again shout out to fuzzy moon and those who are constantly participating in the show we're getting a few Facebook comments we'll get that very short another pro of textbooks versus e-readers and tablets is that 50 to 60 percent less print textbooks you know if you know as just to carry on from what fuzzy moon said you know it makes the earth a lot nicer because trees right now when they're being cut down if you go back to a few episodes ago we talked about global warming and how we're you know where the we're the reason why there is a global warming warming on earth now paper comes from trees so when there's a new edition when there's a new version of that textbook you're gonna have another what 500 million trees cut or you know a thousand trees cut just to have one school or just to equip one school with textbooks however electronics aka tablets and e-readers they cost a lot less per student how much for each student they cost 200 to a thousand dollars less than textbooks what's the net worth of textbooks it's eight billion dollars towards the education system eight billion dollars and if you were to go and see how many students are surveyed in this from the report from federal communications commission if you were to go see how many students and then you know minus two hundred to a thousand dollars from that cost that's gonna be a lot you know because if students are using or the schools providing the students with what like say ten textbooks a year those ten textbooks each textbook doesn't cost us an hundred dollars however if you have a tablet I'm not trying to you know convince to go buy a tablet but I'm just you know saying some some points but if you do buy a tablet you can have all these ten books at like what $30 if you download them even paying money $30 you have them on your tablet and ready to go like that you can search you can find whatever you want in that textbook instead of looking at a hundred pages just to find one subtitle or one subtopic now tablets are also or also contain a lot of technologies within them as well a lot of software within them as well so you have a variety of things that can enhance your IQ that can help you think better you know you can if you like to listen to some relaxation tunes and read you know it just helps you with whatever you want to do and relaxes you other than a textbook because you can't plug a headphone in a textbook unless I think I think you can but now I want to go and look at the cons of textbooks now the cons of textbooks are kind of also you know the they're a bit true you know they kind of make sense just like how the pros made sense now the first cons is that tablets are associated with health issues health concerns and health problems that our kids are going up with once I saw a video on on YouTube on Facebook that was going viral on how kids nowadays when their parents want them to shut up they give them their phones or they give them their iPads or tablets what ends up being that kid there's the there's the the witness in the eye there's a material in the eye a liquid in the eye if a child's exposed to a phone or towards to a to an iPad or to a tablet at a young age that liquid dries up in the eye which increases the the percentage or the chances of that kid becoming blind or a lot of times becoming colorblind so that's important another health problem that goes with using tablets and new technologies for education is the computer vision syndrome and that's very dangerous if you go back and look at what that is and then you have there the eye strain you have the headaches that come from looking at a lot of and I sometimes suffer from that as well every time I look at a computer I said a lot front of a computer look at my phone a lot so I get a lot of headaches so this is personal it's not like research is telling me you know I felt this on a personal level another one is that sometimes tablets can be more expensive than textbooks and this is very true as well because a textbook there's not every year that you know there's a new addition to every five or six or seven years there's a new addition there's a new upgrade there's a new there's a new textbook coming into the class but within with a tablet or an iPad or an e-reader you have to update it every now and then and what the you know the business minded business owners or the company owners of tablets what they do every now and then they give you an update and that update sometimes ruins the battery slows down your tablet you know it destroys it so what you're gonna end up doing is throwing that away or selling it for cheap and going buying a new one so technically you know every year every two years you have to go buy a new one whereas textbook you just get one for six years or seven years another text message from Samina from Pakistan's his tablets can cause children to lose in the interest in books and from young age they'll get addicted to technology they'll lose the taste of real-world technology makes things easier but it should be used within limits thank you very much Samina for joining us tonight Samina Pakistan okay thank you very much for joining us tonight name written on a sticky note name going into the fish ball I thank you very much Samina but let's go check out what the expert has to say joining us tonight sister Barack Hussein from Canada aka the Muslim counsellor psychotherapist from Ottawa Canada let's go see what she has to say about textbooks versus tablets Salam alaikum this is Barack Hussein the Muslim counsellor registered psychotherapist so books or technology which is better for the brain how does this impact to you how does it impact the developing child there's been so much research out there lately where we see the negative influence and impact of technology such as iPads or iPhones or you know any gadgets like that where they have a negative impact on the brain especially the developing child's brain and of course what do parents do the first thing that they're when their child is crying they hand them the phone to keep them quiet and keep them busy and it's scary to see how young now children can just you know swipe the phone over and access anything that's on the phone just to keep them quieter busy so you know on one hand we think all right it's okay you know keep them busy but what is it really doing to your child's brain in terms of the brain development of the child we can also see as grown-ups when you want to go to sleep for example you find yourself you know just reading on your phone going through social media and just being busy and it comes really hard to go to sleep at that time well brain research has shown that the light off of the iPad or the iPhone can actually keep the brain awake longer and keep you stimulated basically so that also has a huge impact on your sleep patterns as well and in terms of actual learning we see in education smart boards and smart projectors and that kind of technology has been useful in terms of making things more easily accessible for students but there has to be a fine balance in terms of actually using books and using this type of technology and so a lot of schools have used this technology to give better access and opportunities for children to learn using all sorts of mediums through that we also have to be careful in terms of still using the books so books or technology what's better we always need to give our brain a little bit of a rest nothing good like a good book to finish off the end of the day welcome back to your viewers I hope you learned a lot from sister Barak Hussain the expert joining us for tonight now we have a few Facebook comments that are sending us a man saying according to me textbooks were better but we have to go with time and with the emerge of technology tabs help me helps me much better to find the data easily thank you very much and bring as a psychologist say that the iPads and androids with touch screen may have negative effects on children's brain thank you very much and brain and brain as a Facebook hey thank you very much and brain as a for joining us tonight now we have a another text message from Rassoul from Germany what does Rassoul say he says what is it doing to their personality in terms of getting what they want instantly as well as well or research has shown that has negative impact on development okay okay if that made sense thank you very much Rassoul from Germany I'm kidding I'm kidding man thank you very much for joining us alright so thank you very much Rassoul for joining us to for joining us tonight now we do give a shout out to those who are sending us text messages Esmet Mahdi Razia and Zakia they're also sending us text messages but we do apologize but we are running short on today's episode so let's go on and finish the episode very quick very important part that we're going Islam always prefers now the Islamic part Islam always prefers paper if you were to look at the Islamic because Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam a personal lesson to be upon him says if a believer passes away and leaves behind one paper containing knowledge that paper will be will be a cover for him against the fire on the day of judgment now if a person dies and their iPhone still there without us without a lock you know the iPhone is not gonna be a cover even if you have wisdom on that because I'm the first one that's gonna format it you know autobock defender case if you have Norton you know security I don't care what you have on that because that iPhone that Android is gonna be formatted it's gonna be cleared restored back fresh so you know in that case always have something you know written down on paper that's why you say whenever you write something down on paper not in your phone the more chance you'll have to memorize that thing you've written down now as I mentioned we mentioned the pros and we mentioned the cons you mentioned Islamic sport of view on tonight's topic now it just goes back to you which one do you prefer which one makes you and which one helps you develop which one makes your life easier at the same time which one has less effects for you go and use that and which one has less effects on the environment go and use that you know what my answer is this Ahmed Ali coming to your life in the holy city of Karbala on the late night talk thank you very much for joining us tonight Wassalamu alaikum rahmatullahi wabarakatuh