Lean on me... when you're not strong... ill be your friend... ill help you carry on...
YES that is technology singing to me...
Can technology be a teaching aid? After exploring a little bit I am at the conclusion that yes it can. I have always downloaded and used apps in regards to things of interest: volleyball stats, fitness management, nutrition calorie counting, games and it with these internet courses that I need to realise: APPS can help you in the classroom. I find I seem to be at a slight disadvantage in that I have not fully explored technology in the classroom because the majority of my teaching is done in the gymnasium. Using technology in a gymnasium is not easy, it is not really taught to us how to in-cooperate it as the main goal in a gym: is the be active physically! So what particular apps I should use in the classroom are somewhat foreign to me. Any help? English? Math? I know there are apps for math and how to make math more visual and more fun but I just am uneducated with what they are. Continuing on that math tangent... I am not good with numbers, decimals, dividing, EVERYTHING number related and honestly I feel comfort in the idea of an APP being able to assist me in teaching Math and helping me learn as well as teach the students. At King George every Wednesday we had "Mathletics" which is basically a math program that the students use their computers with and do math examples and problems with/against their classmates AND also students from the other side of the world.
Its a challenging world in that there are so many different types of phones and different types of APPS that apply to only certain types of phones. How do we find an APP that generically works for all phone types? The presenter this week made an interesting point in that us as educators need to step out of the realm of "everyone learns the same" into different people have different learning styles and that can be applied to different learning APPS. The students need to learn how to use their device and hopefully reach the same learning outcome even if they are doing it differently. This was an interesting thought to me ...!
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Erin, I too have struggled with finding uses for technology in Phys. Ed classes. Sometimes I feel like I want to count playing music as using technology. That being said, there are so many apps out there for Phys Ed teachers. They range from coaching, to analyzing movement skills. As a PE teacher, you can also create a twitter account and use that to update followers on what's going on in the gym; intramurals, practices, games, etc. I don't have an iPad, but if I did, I would search and download apps. I know that PECentral has a twitter feed with a lot of great ideas too. If you look for them, I'm sure you'll find some.
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