The medium is not the message - technology's difficult relationship with teaching

Sam Trendall
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CRN content editor Sam Trendall argues that the IT sector needs to recast the role that technology plays in the classroom

First coined by academic Marshall McLuhan in 1964, the idea that "the medium is the message" is deeply embedded in many aspects of modern life. From politics to pop culture, how an idea is conve...

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