In a world where education is currently technology driven, why are so many parents still fixated upon restrictive textbook culture?

It's normal that people tend to do what they are used to doing. Nothing wrong with having textbooks as long as a student also has full access to learning technologies and is interactively learning. 

The use of technology can be as creative and even more than traditional methods. It is more about how the technology is used and how we teach children to use technology.

If you use technology as a tool to enhance the lesson, or as a resource to expand children's skill, abilities and knowledge, then it can't be a bad thing.

People are adverse to change. They like to do things the way that they always have done it.

We need to educate students (and parents) in the benefits of technology and help them to understand that it is part of our ever changing world.

Technology will move forward. We can choose whether we will move with it, or stay where we are.

We are used to that culture of learning from text books as our previous generation who did foundation for everything learned from text books and teachers only. Technology is a great asset for learning and information but it has its adverse effects too. Sitting infront of electronic items or spenind time with electronic items for long will definitely make very young people addicted to that and definitely it will have bad effects on health. Now a days health scientists are warning to reduce dependency on electronic items due to health factors and also students lose creativity and not using brain as everything easily available through electronic media.