Teaching New Media

The elaboration on school books and their connection with new media provided me with an insight into the influence of economical interests on the part of educational publishers. The school books which we use in school highly depend on the innovations and ideas of educational publishers. In general, the didactic advantages of new approaches towards text books, which are for example included into e-books, are too numerous to ignore the growing influence of them. In my opinion the strongest arguments in favor of using e-books are the fusion of different functions in one medium and the interactive approach. Despite that, the lack of financial resources and the tendency towards monopolization reflect badly on the use of digital school books.