Tech in P.E.

Today's students are more sedentary than ever. This lack of physical activity is associated with all sorts of negative health outcomes (diabetes, obesity, heart disease, and on and on...). As such, it seems counterintuitive that we spend so much time and effort focusing on educating students in all sorts of areas, yet we seem to be neglecting perhaps the most important area of all. Are we, as educators, doing everything we can to educate students about the importance of physical activity in their lives?

Why, in this day and age of technology in the classroom, don't we bring technology into the gym? With all the ways that technology can be used to augment traditional classroom instruction, I would think there must be some interesting ways in which the same can be true in a physical education setting. That's what this quest is all about. I'm challenging you to do some digging to uncover what new and wonderful technologies exist, which you could use to bolster your PE pedagogical practice.

Below you'll find a link to a short article that discusses the use of technology in the today's phys ed classroom. Give it a read to get some inspiration and then take a look around the web to see what's out there. I'll even give you a head start with some good resources on the topic.

Enjoy! Let's get kids moving with technology. If PokemonGo can do it, we can too.