Digital Competency in Physical Education & Health
There are numerous ways to integrate technology into physical education classes, from Micro: Bit Pedometers to interactive sports simulations. Technology can make it easier for teachers to demonstrate proper techniques and track students’ progress. It also supports collaborative challenges and team-building exercises, encouraging students to work together and develop their physical skills and digital competency!
How and When to Include Technology?
Educators should strategically incorporate technology in physical Education classes, ensuring it aligns with their pedagogical goals.
Tech-Tastic Teaching Tip
Did you know you can make a step counter using a Micro:bit? This is a great way for students and educators to track their activity and set personal goals!
Featured Projects
Questions for Understanding and Self-Evaluation Tool
This featured resource was created by Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board teachers. It uses Google Form surveys to enhance student learning and understanding in Physical Education (PE).
Advantages of integrating this tool into your Phys Ed class…
- Immediate feedback.
- Each student articulates their PE knowledge (a voice for the quiet learners).
- Deeper understanding, accountability, engagement and motivation for students.
- Brings credibility to PE & Health as a legitimate subject.
The QUESTIONS FOR UNDERSTANDING and SELF EVALUATION surveys can:
- be used synchronously (in class) or asynchronously (as a home assignment).
- serve as unit previews and recaps (for students and also the teacher)
- Identify learning gaps for the teacher.
- Contribute to and/or complement grade reporting for the teacher.
Padlet: Phys Ed Student Self-Evaluation
Marc-Albert Paquette, pedagogical consultant, LEARN-RÉCIT
Interactive Presentation Tool
The following Interactive Resources were created by our colleagues from RECIT Développement de la Personne – Éducation physique at à la santé. They have been translated and adapted for the Anglophone community.
The content of each slide is interactive. Teachers can navigate by clicking topics much like navigating a live website. Images on the slides are hyperlinked to allow jumping back and forth throughout the slides based on the topic you want to explore. The resource is to support Teachers as they teach a given subject to PEH classes.
More interactive resource of this nature will appear here, over the course of the 2024-2025 school year.
