Power, Tools, and Autonomy. Educational technology is never neutral. Every platform, every pricing model, every data policy reflects a set of decisions about who benefits and who adapts. The articles in this collection examine the economics, politics, and power dynamics of EdTech: vendor lock-in and what it costs, the gap between what tools promise and what they deliver, who gets to automate whose work, and what it looks like when educators build their own alternatives instead of waiting for the industry to care about their problems.