Definition of Instructional Technology

To me, "Instructional Technology" is a discipline that facilitates our ability as teachers to enhance how we present ourselves to our students. By doing so, we as teachers gain confidence in our ability to present ourselves as professional educators. It has the potential to make lessons entertaining yet educational. It modifies itself over time as technology enhances and as teachers develop new pedagogical methods. Thus instructional technology has been around as long as education has existed. By this I mean that the application and proper use of the abacus for Chinese mathematicians draws parallels with the use of Movie maker in order to teach a lesson on the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941. Instructional technology only improves if the students indicate to both their teachers and technology specialists their specific needs. This is how I would define "Instructional Technology."