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Weller, Martin – University of British Columbia Press, 2022
Never before has technology played such a central role in education. In 2020, seemingly over night, technology took centre stage in the delivery of not just some education, but all education and the metaphors to describe this time leaned heavily on catastrophic terms of revolution, tsunami, and disruption. But why do apocalyptic metaphors abound…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Language Usage, Figurative Language
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Baskin, Colin; Anderson, Neil – Australian Educational Computing, 2003
This paper begins with three very "public" examples of how education providers across Australia are attempting to assimilate new teaching and learning technologies into existing teaching and learning structures. The transition, as predicted, is not altogether smooth. The dual concepts of the online classrooms as a "self-actualising…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Foreign Countries, Discourse Analysis, Figurative Language