The interactive opportunities of new media can enhance learning in a variety of manners. Beyond just spreading information media-based tools are developed, that support learners in a variety of tasks and improve learning processes and outcome. As cognitive tools they can organize learning and communication processes and thus create more options for knowledge construction. But those processes need certain competencies to work. Thus, our approach is to find the most adequate tools, enabling both teachers and students to be able to use those tools and to decide when to use them.
