ABSTRACT
This chapter is an argument for a more critical understanding and use of modern educational technology. The author argues that ancient Greek technical concepts of tool use and the Aristotelian doctrine of the habits can properly guide teachers’ decisionmaking about technology to promote students’ learning. Technology (any way through which we transform the world) is understood as a means, and its application in the classroom is observed from the philosophical statement that the end does not justify the means. This chapter intends to remind educators that whenever we transform the outside world we get internally transformed, and that, as a consequence, omitting these special considerations could make our educational technology inhibit what it seeks to advance.
