In order to master ICT, one must understand each piece of software, equipment, metamedium is based on a design, i.e. a drawing or a specific configuration in terms of experience with regards to information and the communication of texts, but also on an intention or an objective, and an end. Helping students to understand ICT in order to bring about controlled use, i.e. critical use, is to help them to think ICT as being complementary to traditional material and not in the place of the latter: each material may bring its own specificity when it comes to information and the communication of texts. The analysis of a pedagogical project for the creation of digital and paper books eventually demonstrates the importance of considering the uses of ICT at school, also in terms of design.
