Blog Post #5 - Redefining Physical Education with technology

Physical educators are always looking for ways to incorporate technology to enhance the student’s learning.

Giving timely feedback is crucial for success.  As a PE teacher, giving feedback and using helpful cues that will help guide that student into performing a skill successfully and seeing growth is a win for the student. Getting a win early sets that student up for more success because they feel “they can do it”.

It used to be walk around, give some feedback, make corrections if need be, come back, see they made the corrections, it not, work with them some more.

Now with the help of technology, not only can we go around and give feedback on form, we can record the student with an iPad and show them so they can see where they need to make corrections.

I've taken my PE classes to the Redefinition level in the SAMR model by having the students video record themselves performing a skill using Hudl Technique in a slow motion, they do it at the beginning of the unit showing their skill with no instruction on how to perform in properly.  After teaching the students how to perform a skill and give them the cues they need to be successful with the skill, they then video record themselves again.  

This time, they compare side by side with the first time they performed the skill. They use their devices to annotate with angles and voiceovers explaining where they made corrections, then they share it with me. I have also expanded this lesson to have them do a side by side skill analysis comparing their skill with a professional athlete's skill.  I have seen so much growth when students can see themselves and see where they need to make those changes.  As a PE teacher, Hudl Technique is such a valuable tool to help students use technology to take their learning and skill set to the next level.