The document discusses the potential use of tablets in schools as an alternative to traditional textbooks. It notes that while tablets are still considered futuristic in most Philippine schools, the impact of technology in education means the future use of tablets may not be too far away. It provides examples from De La Salle school, which has begun replacing textbooks with customized tablets designed to support higher-order thinking and participative learning. Potential advantages discussed include tablets being less physically burdensome than heavy textbooks and reducing the expense of publishing and distributing millions of print textbooks.