Instructions for Instructional Technologies

 Instructional technologies are a set of principles and practices that aims to better utilize, manage, evaluate, and process the resources for learning. At its core, it develops alternative solutions for traditional problems. For example, transportation of students to the learning environment is a very old problem. Instructional technologies allowed students to attend classes from any place in the world thus solving this issue. Distant learning was especially emphasised during the Covid-19 pandemic and teachers and institutions of education forcibly learned the power of these technologies. Had it not been for the already set infrastructure of generations long technological advancements, the pandemic could have caused irretrievable global losses in learning. 

This of course is not the only area in which instructional technologies are useful. The spectrum of tools teachers can use to better facilitate learning is virtually limitless. Edgar Dale's Cone of Experience suggests that as the number of senses addressed by the teacher and teaching material increases, the number of objectives successfully completed also increases. Products of instructional technologies allows teachers to expand their profession onto new levels and manage to create a learning environment in which students get to listen, read, write, and speak more frequently during lectures. Interactive activities are easier to create, and they can be applied to teaching effortlessly.

This blog focuses on some of the tools that come under the category of instructional technologies and aims to familiarize teachers and teacher candidates with the idea of a more functional and contemporary classroom environment.