사회과 디지털 교과서 개발 방향 탐색

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to search for desirable directions for developing social studies digital textbooks, which will be in full-scale distribution in the near future according to the Smart Education Strategy of the Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology. Digital textbooks are part of the textbook development plan designed to overcome the limitations of paper-based textbooks and help to improve classroom lectures and run customized curriculums for individual students. However, education in a true sense happens through close interaction between teachers and students and among students themselves. Digital textbooks are made based on the content of a curriculum for elementary, middle, or high school students to use as a basic material for the sake of effective and efficient teaching and learning. They are digital learning materials that highlight the advantages of paper-based textbooks and perform additional convenience functions such as search and navigation and multimedia learning functions such as animation and 3D. Unlike conventional paper-based textbooks that are planar and linear ones based on texts and images, digital textbooks provide a rich range of multimedia learning materials including sound, video, animation, and virtual reality and further offer a variety of usefulness and usability in terms of data gathering, content delivery media, study methods, accessibility, reusability, and scalability. Social studies digital textbooks should be developed in the following directions while making utmost use of the original advantages of digital textbooks: they should be loyal to the nature and essence of social studies, allow the students to do self-directed learning for themselves, and offer high quality in the internal aspect of content organization and in the external system. They also should allow students to do individual level-based learning and enable both teachers and students to easily use and build them together. There are many different types of digital textbooks including on- and off-line textbooks, teachers' and students' editions, separate and integrated, main and auxiliary, open and closed textbooks. Considering the nature and characteristics of social studies, social studies digital textbooks should be developed in conjunction with paper-based ones. They should be accessible both on- and off-line anytime and separately developed for teachers and students. They should also be open so that students can experience the process of knowledge formation themselves. The directions for developing social studies digital books should be searched for through sufficient research, discussion, and agreement about them and by fully highlighting the characteristics of social studies. In addition, they should be developed in a way that can allow teachers to utilize various materials with teaching initiative in their hands and in such a way that students can enjoy learning and activities and enhance their thinking skills.