The aim of this article is to provide a Habermasian-inspired approach to the application of educational technologies. Such an approach is advocated here in order to counter voices that are critical of the idea of applying technology in the classroom, as well as current (instrumentalist) views that uncritically and unreflectively embrace…

Waves of enthusiasm for technological innovations that promise to revitalize teaching and learning are at least a century old. Unfortunately, the record of accomplishment for the many varieties of hardware and software introduced into schools over the decades is remarkably thin. Today's promoters of technology in education tend to forget similar…

Despite the absence of sufficiently systematic and comprehensive studies concluding that information and communications technology (ICT) can significantly improve learning, the assumption that it can has been mostly taken for granted throughout the history of the computerization of education. This article briefly presents three moments in this…