To introduce AI digital textbooks into the educational field, it is required to first explore which textbooks are desirable to develop for each subject, including elementary social studies, by applying AI and digital technology. However, studies on existing elementary social studies textbooks and digital textbooks have been conducted focusing only on external aspects such as ideology, necessity, form, and system, and thus do not provide practical standards or implications for new textbooks. Therefore, this study critically analyzes the elementary social studies textbook discourse, which is the existing method of recognizing and utilizing elementary social studies textbooks, and explores the problems in depth. As a result of critical discourse analysis of elementary social studies textbooks, it was confirmed that there is a tendency to recognize and utilize elementary social studies textbooks as an example or text, that is, a dominant discourse. First, the example discourse in elementary social studies textbooks mass-produced classes in which social studies content knowledge was acquired with emphasis on objective knowledge. Second, the discourse on the text of elementary social studies textbooks left the judgment on textbook utilization to individual teachers, resulting in classes being influenced by the teacher's capabilities regardless of the textbook. From the analysis results, implications for the development of AI digital textbooks to be introduced in the future can be obtained. First, it is necessary to break away from the method of directly recording knowledge and skills. Second, it is necessary to conceive of an elementary social studies textbook that can reflect students’ experiences and contexts in learning. Third, it is necessary to implement elementary social studies textbooks that maximize learning by utilizing the media characteristics of AI digital textbooks.