EDTC 6010 Blog Initial Question #1

Instructional technology can be defined as the different tools that we use to help us add enhancements to how we teach in the 21st century. So much of what are students are learning is taught in a classroom that could have been taken from 1970. Instructional technology not only incorporates learning for teachers as the learn to use the technology, but allows students to prepare for the world that is actually waiting for them. Recent experience has allowed me to understand that instructional technology goes beyond just computers and extends to other devices such as GPS devices, scanners, PDA's, IPods, cameras, CD players and other electronic mediums. Students still need to know much of what they needed to know in 1970. The only difference is in the presentation of the material as well as instructing students in the use of the technology.