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On the Implementation of Technology in Education

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Pedagogy and Edusemiotics

Part of the book series: Educational Futures ((EDUFUT,volume 62))

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The rise of mass communications technology has made accessibility to all kinds of information available to virtually everyone in the developed world today. As is well known, the late Marshall McLuhan referred to this world already in the late 1950s as the Global Village (McLuhan, 1962). This has created a veritable dependency on electronic technologies in every sphere of life, including the educational one.

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  1. University of Toronto, Canada

    Mariana Bockarova

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  1. University of Waikato, New Zealand, RosNOU, Moscow, Russia

    Inna Semetsky

  2. University of Roehampton, UK

    Andrew Stables

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Bockarova, M. (2014). On the Implementation of Technology in Education. In: Semetsky, I., Stables, A. (eds) Pedagogy and Edusemiotics. Educational Futures Rethinking Theory and Practice , vol 62. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-857-2_7

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