Digital textbook versus traditional textbook

How to choose a text book?

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Digital textbooks can be defined as core textbooks for students, with which students can learn contents that are tailored to their abilities and interests. Digital textbooks offer various interactive functions, and provide the learner with a combination of textbooks, reference books, workbooks, dictionaries and multimedia contents such as video clips, animations, and virtual reality, both at school and at home, without the constraints of time and space. In other words, digital textbooks are alive and in motion, and as such are literally

“living and moving” textbooks that construct and create the knowledge not only of individual learners, but also the community,

and support and manage the teaching and learning activities of teachers and learners. Learners can create their own textbooks while using the digital textbook, underlining the important parts, taking notes, and ultimately combining the contents with high-

quality, reliable knowledge that is their own.

Digital books (Wikipedia)

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Digital books. What should be taken into account?

ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES

Weight Students just need netbooks. Students are familiar to this kind of

new devices (ICT competence) Teachers need ICT formation Schools/secondary schools

infrastructure Cheap? 30€ for each grade Latest information Save paper ____________________________ ____________________________ ____________________________ ____________________________

Internet access Internet is down Money __________________________ __________________________ __________________________ __________________________ __________________________

Traditional text books. What should be taken into account?

ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES

Students and families are already used to them.You do not depend on Internet access.Teachers are already using them. They do not have to get used to something new.________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

WeightThey are not related to the students’ new ICT competence in most cases.Expensive? 120€ for each grade.Out of date in the academic year____________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Textbooks versus digital booksADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES

Students and families are already used to them.You do not depend on Internet access.Teachers are already using them. They do not have to get used to something new.________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

WeightThey are not related to the students’ new ICT competence in most cases.Expensive? 120€ for each grade.Out of date in the academic year____________________________________________________________________________________________________________

WeightStudents just need netbooks.Students are familiar to this kind of new devices (ICT competence)Teachers need ICT formationSchools/secondary schools infrastructureCheap? 30€ for each gradeLatest informationSave paper________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Internet accessInternet is down Money__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

How to choose a book?

• Check the moodle e-learning web site.

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