How can we work technology into physical education?
As I spoke about in my previous post, technology is here to stay within education. There are many great ways to work it into the classroom and integrate it into lesson plans. While this should be easy enough to use within math, science, english, and other core subjects, how could we work this into physical education? Being based around sports and fitness and taking place either within gyms or outside, it is harder to see how technology is going to fit into the subject. But there are plenty, and creative ways to work technology into physical education.
You could say that physical education has become a bit stale within their lesson plans and curriculum that has been put together. With technology playing a bigger role in education now, physical education should adapt and work technology into it's day to day.So the question is how should this be done? One good method to use is applications through tablets for different sports. Using an application like Coaches Eye, you would be able to demonstrate proper technique in a variety of different sports and record students to be able to compare and improve their technique. This could be a great way to include just a small aspect of technology. Another method would be incorporating heart rate monitors, or technology like a FitBit. This would have to take a decent amount of funding to be able to get enough pieces to covers classes. If you would be able to do so, each class, you could have the students wear the bands and be able to record what each student did during the class. You would be able to look at reports on the applications that accompany the devices. This would be a great way to look at work output by each student as well as seeing how active each student was. These are methods that might already be happening in some schools, but I do not a good amount that do not use them. This could just be a start to introducing more technology into the physical education classroom and changing the landscape of it for the better.
Technology has a place within each classroom and can have an impact on each student. It is time to allow technology to work its way into the physical education lessons and help change how the subject is taught in a new day where technology is ever present.
You could say that physical education has become a bit stale within their lesson plans and curriculum that has been put together. With technology playing a bigger role in education now, physical education should adapt and work technology into it's day to day.So the question is how should this be done? One good method to use is applications through tablets for different sports. Using an application like Coaches Eye, you would be able to demonstrate proper technique in a variety of different sports and record students to be able to compare and improve their technique. This could be a great way to include just a small aspect of technology. Another method would be incorporating heart rate monitors, or technology like a FitBit. This would have to take a decent amount of funding to be able to get enough pieces to covers classes. If you would be able to do so, each class, you could have the students wear the bands and be able to record what each student did during the class. You would be able to look at reports on the applications that accompany the devices. This would be a great way to look at work output by each student as well as seeing how active each student was. These are methods that might already be happening in some schools, but I do not a good amount that do not use them. This could just be a start to introducing more technology into the physical education classroom and changing the landscape of it for the better.
Technology has a place within each classroom and can have an impact on each student. It is time to allow technology to work its way into the physical education lessons and help change how the subject is taught in a new day where technology is ever present.
Great thoughts! I did the same subject. Other possibilities I could imagine are video games like the use of Wii in the classroom, and also Dance videos the students replicate. Keep the body moving and grooving!
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