It’s easy to get swept up in the excitement of new technology that appears to have potential to transform everything, including education. But, as Rafael Heller explains, educators have a long history of being seduced by technologies that never really lived up to their promise. That’s no reason to ignore technology’s potential, but plenty of reason to be realistic about what it can achieve.

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编者注：关于ed tech，让我们在中间见面

很容易被新技术的激动所吸引，这些新技术似乎具有改变包括教育在内的一切的潜力。但是，正如拉斐尔·海勒（Rafael Heller）解释的那样，教育者长期以来一直被真正没有兑现其诺言的技术所吸引。这并不是无视技术潜力的理由，而是有充分的理由对技术可以实现的目标持现实态度。