Last Friday marked the BYTE conference held at Crocus Plains. Jon Filewich and myself were participants and presented on the use of technology in Physical Education. Our session primarily focused on using video analysis apps in Phys Ed, outlining the uses as a means of showing students how skill are properly preformed as well as how they can be used to create summative assessments.
Prior to this semester my background in Phys Ed was non-existent, but I do have an interest in technology and effective integration into the classroom. My interest in the topic was spurred from this desire for effective use of technology as well the Early Years Phys Ed methods class I took this semester.
I believe the conference was a success and I hope those who attended our session left with a desire to implement technology into Phys Ed to improve both Physical and Digital Literacy.
For a non-PE guy, you would have never had known. That is until you told them!
ReplyDeleteThe presentation was interesting because we had such a broad range of physical educators there and you could tell which would be receptive and who wouldn't. The ones who wanted nothing to do with a device, probably didn't have a positive mindset going into the presentation.
By the end, we had a great response by the majority of the attendee's and I feel that we may have changed a few teachers technology perspective in PE.
It is often overlooked that technology can be used in the gym, but there really are some great apps available that allows us as physical education teachers to implement technology in a way that students will love! The apps that you had showed in class are especially neat because you can compare side by side for different sports!
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