Instructional technologies are best implemented only after weeks, even months, of banging around between learning goals and available tools. Some of these technologies will have the potential to help meet some outcomes, but none will do everything, and none are machines to approximate all of the work of the instructor’s mind and experience. It’s a happy serendipity when one instructional technology intersects with one learning goal (e.g., the course project wiki and the hope that students will become more reflective and more effective collaborative writers).
