Digitális világégés

Abstract

Images are important building blocks of textbooks, especially in the 21st century with its visual culture. Today, students find it unimaginable to learn from textbooks that only work with descriptive text. This is not a problem, since the pictures have many educational possibilities, because they not only have an illustrative function, but they can also motivate the students, new knowledge can be gained through them, they help to organize knowledge and interpret the curriculum. With the development of technology, we use more and more support and digital technology during the educational process in order to develop students’ competencies in an increasingly simple way, in line with current expectations. Aid materials, which are available online, are also gaining ground. This is also the case with the smart textbook on the National Public Education Portal. In our study, we analyzed the pictures related to the Second World War in the NKP smart textbook. During the investigation, we examined their functions in teaching and their didactic processing, with particular attention to the properties of the maps and pictures in the textbooks. Sometimes we also made suggestions about how it could be done to change the visual material of these books to make them more resource-oriented and didactic to become more modern and efficient. We also examined the factor of how well the figures in the smart textbook available online make use of the opportunities offered by the World Wide Web, for example, do they use the potential inherent in hyperlinks, do they use animations or other special elements that exceed the possibilities of paper-based textbooks and atlases. According to our hypothesis, the fact that smart textbooks are freely available on the Internet and are visually spectacular does not automatically mean that they are better in a pedagogically way, and pedagogically more up-to-date. Also, we believe that these textbooks do not take advantage of the opportunities provided by the Internet in terms of pedagogical expediency. They are closer to a paper-based textbook than a modern, didactically up-to-date teaching tool that uses online space well.