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Many educational scientists, teachers, educational psychologists and politicians regard new media as the key for revolutionizing education and teaching. But what do we know about their influence on the learning process? What possibilities and limits are associated with the application of new media? And what consequences do they have for educational interventions? These are the questions addressed in this article and described in more detail for school education. Its main thesis is that we are currently witnessing a technologization mania. This trend threatens to do more damage than good because it stylizes new media as a magic formula for achieving educational success, thus losing sight of a guiding didactic principle: Pedagogy takes precedence over technology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]