(Semi) autonomous educational technologies based on Artificial Intelligence have been seeking to record, evaluate and predict the cognitive and emotional behavior of students, generating personalized responses and learning paths. It is expected that, in a few years, they will be massified in different educational applications. However, they are products based on very new technologies, questioned in human and ethical aspects and with effects that are still unknown. In this scenario, if adopted without due care, they can generate harmful effects on humans. These edtechs are sometimes developed in young startups, with few employees and in a climate of uncertainty, within a social and economic context that demands the use of these technologies in Education. Based on the hypothesis that applying human-centered, systemic, and participatory views of Design allows us to help build an approach to use and development that includes conceptual, contextual, and intrinsic issues of these technologies, the central question of the research is: given the complexities surrounding Technology and Education, how can Design approaches contribute to the adoption and development of intelligent and/or (semi) autonomous Edtechs that consider the characteristics and particularities of these new and challenging technologies? To seek the answer, the thesis used as a method a field research, where it explored the development and use of these technologies, questioning what can be their risks, challenges and good practices, as a way to investigate what happens with a technology still expanding and studying, and how to try to approach it from there. To this end, the thesis raised the points of attention and doubts that these technologies can bring, investigated the context of current development of companies in Brazil through techniques such as documentary research and a questionnaire focused on edtechs. Subsequently, discussed the results (scenarios, problems and possibilities of its development and adoption) with experts and professionals from various Fields, through semi-structured interviews. The findings have shown that these technologies are even more complex than expected, and should be considered and approa- ched as a specific category of products. It was also clear, at least in the material collected, that there is a lack of Design in the development of many of these tools. Thus, we need design approaches that take all these factors into account. With the results obtained in the context found, Design can approach the issue by seeing it in a systemic way, beyond technology and Education; observing the social, historical, and economic context; listening to people involved in different fields, seeking out who thinks and who uses technology on a daily and professional basis; centralizing the human experience throughout the process and, as far as possible, in the long term, thinking about the future effects of continuous use; and, finally, seeking to deliver their findings in an appropriate way, facilitating the understanding of interested people and entities, allowing a process of iterative use and discussion, where this material can and will be modified over time. Thus, the research presented the initial basic concepts of a Design approach focused on the design and adoption of Intelligent and (semi) autonomous Educational Technologies, to deepen the knowledge and debates on the subject, reflect on the points raised and think about ways to insert these issues in everyday life, offering subsidies to design and use these technologies more carefully.