Blue Jay Bridge, (01/25/13), Enhancing Physical Education with Technology
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Technology is something that is not going away. Some would argue that in today's society technology such as smart phones and tablets are completely taking over today's youth in all aspects of their lives. Because of this we as educators need to be able to change with students and teach them in ways they will be engaged. This article gives the physical educator many ideas as to how different apps can be used to enhance the physical education classroom.
We begin with an app for phys ed teachers to use to video record students doing a skill to analyze. Great tool to use to show students what they are doing correctly and where they need to improve. Other apps include one that randomly picks teams for activities, sets music for you for interval type workouts with a timer even!
Apps that can help students track what they are eating such as MyFitnessPal are also mentioned in this article. An app that I feel goes with that is one that shows you the caloric intake of various foods that you may find at your local fast food chain. Once students know how many calories they are supposed to have in a day and then enter in a normal meal they may have at McDonalds it really opens their eyes. Then you can factor in how much exercise they must do to burn those calories and they rethink that large fries and Coke.
Other apps that are a great resource show you many different games broken down into catagories for you. Need a game that works on skipping, it's there. One for an overhand throw, boom!
This article has so many resources for the physical educator it's crazy. And I know that this is just the tip of the iceberg here. There are Twitter names and hashtags here that are going to be great resources for me. Seeing some of these apps gets me excited to begin the next school year. So long as my building administrators are on board and get me the minimal things that will be required to make them work.