Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Supporting Instruction with Technology


Maintaining Target Heart Rates Using DDR
My coggle:

https://coggle.it/diagram/55086c99531cc5ce22675df6/8b6724099a41d2b907d185a2765549f7a9a96fe0ede7f2ea04789ff11ec7de13

This lesson in particular stood out because understanding of the body during physical activity is extremely important. Monitoring heart rate is a factor most people overlook when participating in physical activity. It is imperative to know your resting heart rate and when you reach your target heart rate. Many times over exert themselves because they do not know this. The fact that this is being taught in education at a high school level is great!

There weren't any gaps between the curriculum goals, teaching strategies, and or technologies. The three components were in complete alignment because they complimented one another. The goal was to have the students maintain and track their heart rate at rest and when they did different activities. Using the heart monitor was a good incorporation because it allowed the students to experience a form of digital technology on a personal level. Adding DDR along with the usual activities such as running, jumping and walking gave a more modern and technologically approach to support the fact that heart rate can be monitored through old pedagogical routines in PE and new ones as well.

Coggle is an awesome avenue for planning a lesson. In PE it would be great for dividing students up into teams and forming strategies. In health it can also be useful by picking a topic such as, sexual transmitted diseases or gender identity and branching out different categories. The ability to branch off of an idea with an extended thought was interesting. Also being able to change the colors of each idea was exciting. Overall it is a positive new pedagogical approach to merging and supporting the relationship between technology and education.

1 comment:

  1. Hello Anita,

    I very much enjoyed your Coggle, great work! I admired the lesson you presented as well. I always found physical education in a classroom setting to be very interesting. You are a functioning technology as a human being and your body is so complex that you can't even fathom some of the processes your body endures daily. The heart rate topic is so interesting and a great lesson! The Coggle was presented very artistically and professional. I can't wait to see more of your work going forward, great job.

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