The Educational Technology in crisis

The polysemic of the Educational Technology field means to recognize different conceptualizations of several theories of technology and its application to education in general and specially, in education mediated by ICT. To present an historic path is needed to understand the mentioned field towards a conceptual and methodological reconsideration of this special discipline articulated by the contributions of rupturistic theorists in order to reach to a critic theory of technology and a review to its field. We do not agree with the "instrumentalism and the neutrality of technology because the "technological rationality" should be transform into a "communicative and politic " one as a cultural scenario of desocultamiento of hegemonic interests within homogeneous cultures : it is claimed a social debate of civilization alter nativities like formative proposals in a mediated way. Educational Technology field and work are in a deep crisis within crisis times, specially in the south of the world and in migration, nomade and poor users contexts. The technology should be "appropriate", socially aterrizada and adequate culturally in their educational mediations depending on diverse scenarios and actors, whom will select and combine traditional technology and electronified as well. Appropriate and Critic Technology is an special technological discipline and a tipical knowledge space to cultivate educational technological knowledge, open and reflective towards research and to be contrasted to the socio-educational practices mediated by pedagogical projects and materials articulated with ICT. Its study object are the educational-technological mediations as historic - cultural - semiologic and didactic environments and tools in diverse formats which provoke different domains of the socio - cognitive structuration of learners in and situated and distribuited way, within formal and non- formal, presential and distance teaching practices.