Abstract:
Senior secondary education counted GCE O/L and GCE A/L grades in Sri Lanka.
The country started implementing digital technology in the late 1980s. The concept
of a Digital textbook is beneficial in terms of replacing a heavy school- bag, carrying
on the learning process after school, and enhancing distance and self-learning. Etextbooks
were introduced into the Sri Lankan school system in 2009 as a move
toward updating and enhancing the school curriculum. The transition of literature
from text to hypertext can be identified as digital literature. E-books are the current
format for books and they produce Electronic literature in Audiobooks and PDF
format. This research was exploring the impact of Digital Textbooks on Digital
literacy in Secondary Education in Sri Lanka. This study used a survey method and
325 senior secondary students in Western Province and used it as a sample of this
survey. SPSS software was used for analysing the data and finally came to the
conclusion. Due to technological limitations, a preference for reading only printed
books, Internet vulnerabilities, and an inability to read screens, digital textbooks are
not widely used. It is clear from this sample that digital textbooks have a lack of
impact on students' perceptions of digital literacy in Secondary Education in Sri
Lanka.
