Teaching Social Skills based on the New Educational Technologies in K12 textbooks

The purpose of this study was to analyze the use of new educational technologies in the content of new social sciences textbooks for teaching social skills to high school students of grade nine.The research approach was quantitative and content analysis method has been used. The statistical population is the social sciences textbooks, of grade nine of secondary first period of high school. The entire content was applied as the study sample. Using open categorization technique, data analysis was done. Concepts and sub-categories were identified through collecting all units of text as well as recording units. At the end, all subcategories were categorized into online and offline technologies. The results of the content analysis showed the lack of enough usage of educational technology in textbook. As a matter of fact, only 18 content units relevant to the usage of online educational technology and 15 offline ones were applied throughout the textbook.