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Appropriate Technologies are technologies that are meaningful in a particular teaching and learning situation. Because of this, there is no one-size-fits-all method or tool -- every method and tool has to be adapted to the specific need of a given course activity. Course activities, in turn, have to be adapted to the specific need of a given course goal. This means that when we choose to use a particular technology in the teaching and learning environment, we are basing our decision upon a variety of already predetermined variables. In many ways, therefore, the idea behind our wanting to use appropriate technologies is not a foreign concept to us as teachers -- we already know that exemplary teaching involves finding appropriate methods to engage our students as producers of their own learning. It just so happens that digital technologies give us more methods, and it is up to us to master them if we want to continue to grow as teachers.