After looking through the health and physical education curriculum document (grades 9-12), the use of technology and technological constructs was discussed a few times. There is even specific expectations within the grade 9 Healthy Living Strand C curriculum, under personal safety and injury prevention on the use of technology and understanding the benefits and risks of it. I personally believe, that most of what we are teaching as physical education instructors is on teaching our students how to be able to navigate the use of social media and how to protect their mental health as well as their personal safety when it comes to the use of sexting, cyberbullying or potential online predators.
The one nice thing that technology does bring us in the PE department is the use of programs that help us to monitor our heart rate while being active, or stop motion photography to break down the different skills that we are trying to teach. Technology has also help to increase our ability to be more inclusive by allowing students with disabilities who other wise may not have been able to participate be able to participate, they may just need a slight difference in the way that they move or their own set of specific skills but at least it allows for an equitable share of experiences from the whole class.
What is missing from the curriculum, which I will admit I am not overly surprised about but can foresee being added in due to recent circumstances is the use of online instruction for a PE class. The different databases and resources that are available in order to be able to run an effective and proper PE class so that we can actually grade and see their physical progressions and movement competences
The following is a link to an online cross-curricular online resource that I helped to create.
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