Information technology (IT) and Instructional Technology (EdTch) serve different purposes but but can overlap in educational environment. Here's a comparision :
Information Technology IT :

purpose: IT refers to the use of computers, network and other physical devices to store, process and exchange information. It is a broad field that encompasses hardware, software, network and data management.

Scope: It is applied across various industries including finance, healthcare, education and more. It involves system administration, cybersecurity, datamanagement, cloud computing and IT support.

#Application: IT professionals manage and maintain systems that support the oprration of organizations. This includes setting up and maintaining servers, database, network infrastructure and ensuring data security.

Examples

• Setting up computer networks and servers in an organization.
• Managing database and ensuring the security of sensitive information.
• Setting up software applications for business operations.
Instructional Technology EdTech):

Purpose: Instructional technology focuses on using technology specifically to enhance teaching and learning process. It integrates tools like software, online platforms and digital resources to create an engaging educational experience.

Scope: While properly focused on education , EdTech can also be applied in cotporate training and professional development. It deals with designing, implementing and evaluating educational programs and materials.

Application : Instrutional technologists design curriculum, create digital learning resources, develop e-learning platforms and use data to improve educational outcomes. They might work on integrating new teaching tools or platform into the classroom.

#Examples:
• Creating interactive e-learning modules.
• Using Learning Management System (LMS) like Moodle or Blackboard to manage course.
• Implementing technology in classrooms like interactive whiteboards or tablets.
Key difference:

Objective: IT focuses the infrastructure and tools needed to manage and share information while EdTech aims to improve educational process through the use of technology.

Target audiance: IT serves all sectors whilre EdTech specifically target educators, students and learners.

#Tools and technologies: IT involves a broad range of technologies for vsrious business functions while EdTech focuses on technologies that support teaching and learning.
Overlap:
In educational iinstitutions IT and EdTech professionals often work together. IT provides the infrastructure (network, hardware security) while EdTech professionals ensure that these technologies are effectively used for educational purposes. For example the IT department mighg mange the servers that host an LMS while EdTech team design the course content delivered through that system.
Yousuf Memon
From Matiari Sindh Pakistan

Re: Inclusive teaching

@Irum-8ce591a061
Yes, Irum, you are doing good job giving proper attention and care to those students who have some disabilities, slow learners and those who shy and have not confidence or have less confidence. Dealing with such students is some how difficult but a good teacher is he/she who gives special attention to these students. I'm also of the opinion that proper attention and care should be given to these students. Learning opportunities should be given to these students to make them useful persons of the society. It is s responsibility of a good teacher to teach all kinds of students equally so as all feel valued and take interest in learning. All students should be given equal opportunities of learning. I appreciate your efforts.

Re: Flipped Classroom Implementation: Share Your Experiences!

@Basse9b9f534802
Yeah I've tried the flipped classroom approach in my teaching. I record my lectures and upload on my youtube channel . My students watch these videos before coming to class. In class they work in groups and in pairs and take part in discussion. They give presentation also. I've observed that students are very active and concentrated. They take interest in different activities and learn more and easily than traditional teaching in which they are passive and learn less than flipped classroom approach. Their critical thinking, problem solving, communication and collaborative skills are improved in flipped classroom approach. They grasp knowledge more easily while working with their fellow students.

Yousuf Memon from Pakistan
High School Teacher and Teacher Trainer by British Council.

Re: Connecting Classrooms to Real Life: Making Learning Effective Through Everyday Real Life Examples

Yes, you are right in syaing linking lessons to real-life examples transforms how students engage with learning. You've asked very difficult question how do we link our our lessons to real life? I teach languge, English to students of grade ten. I'm finding it difficult to tell you how do I link my lesson to real life? Any way I dare to tell you. I don't know whether you will satisfy with my example or not. I give you one example here. When I teach Direct Indirect Speech to my students. First of all I call three students in front of class. I ask student A to say student B something. Then I ask student C to ask student B what did he say to you? The student B will tell Student C what the student A said to him. This is a conversation in real life. Then I teach how to convey a message of one person to another person. Another way of communication is Chinese Whisper. The students stand in a queue. One student gives message to student standing in front. He gives messsge to next student standing behind him. In this way the message is to be conveyed to last student. In the end it is asked from the last student what message did he get. Whether he got complete message or not. Thirdly when teaching any lesson I link its some parts with real life so as students can understand the lesson fully. In this way I've found students concentrated on the topic. They don't divert their attention to anywhere else. But when we don't link our lessons with real life, the students don't become concentrated and their attention diverts to somewhere else and they don't understand the topic fully. They become very lazy and are sitting in class like statues. So it is necesssry to link lessons with real life. As it is said "Education is not to prepare for life but education is life itself".
Yousuf Memon
High school teacher at Govt: MDM High School Matiari Sindh Pakistan.

Re: How to Evolute the project of others regards compitation

@Rafia-Khokhar
To evaluate the projects of others you should keep in mind four things; (1) Relevance (2) Scability (3) Innovstion and (4) Interactivity
(1) Is it related with the topic? Does it reflect the topic?
(2) can it be replicated to other schools?
(3) Is it innovative?
(4) Is the content interacting?
Keeping these four things projects of others are evaluated. You should give weightage to each when evaluating.
Yousuf Memon from Matiari Sindh Pakistan

A child spends most of his time at home in comparison with school. Parents know better their chid's habits, attitudes and reactions to actions than teachers. For the educational wefare of childrens their should be close relations between home and school.
How can better relations between home and school be established? What steps school administration take to establish relations between home and school? What role a teacher can play in this respect? Share your ideas.

Hello, every one I'm Yousuf Memon from Pakistan. I'm a High School Teacher and Teachers Trainer also. I'm certified Teacher Trainer for English by British Council. I want to take part in Teaching in the 21st Century 3.0 Teachers Competition.

Re: Flipped Classroom Implementation: Share Your Experiences!
I have applied Flipped Classroom approach to my teaching. I record my lectures and upload videos on my youtube channel youtube.com/gelccmatiari and ask students to watch videos on my youtube channel before coming to class. Moreover I've created whatsapp group of my class where I share videos of my youtube channel. The students watch these videos and come to classroom prepared. In classroom they take part in group work, pair work, discussion and presentation. This approach has enhanced students engagement and interest in learning. I've faced some challanges. These challanges include some students don't have access to internet and digital tools so they can't watch my videos, second challange is second language problem. Videos are in second language that is english so some students face to understand words properly. I comeover these challanges by making my videos shorter and understandable by using simple words so as students can understand. I've encouraged parrent's support and providing offline options.

@FarhanMehboob @Tabassumlaghari @Mariam @Aqsa-Khatri @Adel-8d693e36c4
Have you not read the poem "Children" by Henry Longfellow ? Who says children are source of joy who dispell all worries of others.
Here is the full text of the poem "Children" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:

Come to me, O ye children!
    For I hear you at your play,
And the questions that perplexed me
    Have vanished quite away.

Ye open the eastern windows,
    That look towards the sun,
Where thoughts are singing swallows
    And the brooks of morning run.

In your hearts are the birds and the sunshine,
    In your thoughts the brooklet’s flow,
But in mine is the wind of Autumn
    And the first fall of the snow.

Ah! what would the world be to us
    If the children were no more?
We should dread the desert behind us
    Worse than the dark before.

What the leaves are to the forest,
    With light and air for food,
Ere their sweet and tender juices
    Have been hardened into wood,—

That to the world are children;
    Through them it feels the glow
Of a brighter and sunnier climate
    Than reaches the trunks below.

Come to me, O ye children!
    And whisper in my ear
What the birds and the winds are singing
    In your sunny atmosphere.

For what are all our contrivings,
    And the wisdom of our books,
When compared with your caresses,
    And the gladness of your looks?

Ye are better than all the ballads
    That ever were sung or said;
For ye are living poems,
    And all the rest are dead.

So when you are gloomy go to children. They will make you happy.

How far is "Creativity" skill important for school children?

@Engr-Zeeshan
3: What challenges have you faced in integrating technology, and how did you overcome them?
This question consists of two parts : challanges and solution of the challanges.
Challanges faced in integrating technology are:

1. Whether the administration of the school allow to integrate technology in teaching learning process or not. Particularly it is not officially allowed to integrate technology in teaching learning process. Still we are using traditional methods of teaching.
2. All the students don't haves access to technology.
3. Al parents of all students don't allow their childen to use technology for learning purpose.
4. Reaction from society: Anyone from society can raise objection on using technology for teaching learning purpose.
5. Reaction of colleague teachers: Colleague teachers can also raise objection on using technology for teaching learning as it is not officially allowed.
   The answer of second part of the question " How did you overcome them?" is after convincing administrstion, studdnts and their parents and colleague teachers technology can be used to some extent.

@MJANKb9ddefc9b1
I think if these 4Cs, which are considered as 21st century skills including some others I have already mentioned, are applied in proper way our teaching learning will be effective. Moreover an effective teacher is he/she who applies these 21st century skills in his/her teaching. In this way we can keep pace with the modern changing world. Othereise we will not only be left behind but will be no more.
Regards
Yousuf Memon

All 21st century skills are essential but in my opinion in all these skills creativity is the most important skill for children. All other skills have secondary importance but creativity has primary importance in my opinion. Creativity is such a skill which can lead a child to his livelyhood earning by himself easily and which will make him self sufficient. I don't deny other skills. No doubt they are also essential. So a child child should be taught different 21st century skills along with creativity.

@Tabassumlaghari
You are right in saying that games positively affect learners mindset. I also think educationl games are very important. They leave positive effects on learners in following way:

1. They refresh learners minds.
2. They remove tiredness among students.
3. They increase physical growth too.
4. They help learners to learn fastly.
5. They teaches students collaboration.
6. They teach students team rules.
7. They increase their knowledge.
   It's good to learn that you've suggested some educational games bedides telling their positive impact on students. Keep up good work.
   Regards
   M Yousuf D Memon
   From: Matiari Sindh Pakistan.

@Bilim
Yes, I agree with it that students over15 are more creative than students of 10. As I teach students of grade ten. They are at the stage of 15 years age or some over 15. So it is my observation that my students who are 15 years old or over 15 are very creative. They create their own ideas. Similarly I teach some students of lower classes who are below 15 and some students who are below 10. So the students who are below 10 are not creative, some of them may be creative to some extent but they are not fully creative. And you are right that they can be somehow creative by cinquains poems as they are easy to understand according to their mental level. Here I give an example of cinquains poem which students of 10 or below 10 can understand easily and create their idea about it to some extent. The poem runs thus:
Flowers
Colourful, fragrant
Swaying, growing, blooming
Make me feel happy
Blossoms
From this poem little students of 10 years old and below 10 can create their idea about flowers easily. They can say that flowers ar colourful. Flowers give fragrance.
Flowers grow. Flowers bloom etc.
So I agree with you that this approach is applicable to students of 10 and below 10 for creativity.

@MehranKhan
The best study hacks I've discovered are:

1. Active Recall: Instead of passively reading notes I quiz myself on the matetial. This reinforces my memory.
   2.Spaced Repetition: I review information at increasing intervals e.g after 1 day or 3 day or 1 week. This helps me transfer knowledge to long term memory.
2. Teach what you learn: I explain the concept to someone, particularly students or even myself. This reinforces my understanding.
3. Summarize notes: After studying I summarize the key points in my own words. This helps consolidate my understanding.
   These are some of my best study hacks that I usually use.
   Yousuf Memon
   Matiari Sindh Pakistan.

@Ana_moderator
How to become a green teacher?
To become a green teacher I'll suggest my own ideas. We have students hailing from rural areas. Their parents are mostly farmers who work in their fields. They not only grow diffent crops but also plant trees of different kinds in mango garden, guavas garden, Berries garden etc. And also plant neem trees, acacias trees etc. Their children help them with their work. So these students already know tree plantation. These students should be given tasks to bring different kinds of trees and plants to school. Then at school they should be given tasks of preparing garden in school with other students living in cities who don't know planting a tree. The students who know this will teach them this work. In this way to become a green teacher a teacher can carry out different environment friendly activities at school as well as out of school engaging his/her students busy at school as well as out of school. Moreover students should given different projects of energy conservation and recycling.

@Zakia-soomro
First we will have to understand the modern new trends in education at world level. In this respect first we should think about 21st century needs in education. So as we can bring our education system at world level. We will have to introduce technology in our education system properly so as our students can compete at world level. All digital skills should be taught to our students. Digitals tools should be given to schools. Internet facility should be given to all schools. In this way we can make our education system better. Community involvement is also necessary.

Yeah I'm also of the opinion that the children affected by difficult home environment should be given proper counseling to remove their anxiety and distress so as they becone normal and take interest in studies and be saved from problematic behavior. In this respect counseling of their parents is also necessary.