Within a physical education classroom, the 'use of space and time' is very important. Students are constantly moving. Whether that's throughout a gym space or traveling to the outside fields. The ability to connect to the internet anywhere in the building and outside is a wonderful thing. For instance, when my students are participating in the cardio unit, they always wear heart rate monitors. Each monitor is then connected to an ipad where students can physically see if they are working in their heart rate zone. Recently, our football stadium got wifi installed so now lessons can be outside, utilizing our great facilities.
Time is also very crucial, especially in physical education setting. We already lose ten minutes due to dressing so technology really help speed up certain activities. For example, the app 'Seconds' is a timer where students can see the amount of time left, beeps when it time to rotate, and counts down to when it's time to start the next rotation. This helps maximum time so that I, as the teacher, don't need to keep a timer, yell, and try to demonstrate when to rotate over music. I can actually go around helping my students and correcting form. Little things like that can really help maximum time in a physical education as well as classroom management.
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