For my final lesson, I will be integrating technology into a heart rate fitness development plan. For five days, my students will be monitoring their maximum, minimum, and average heart rates through the use of a tracking device. Heart rate monitors are expensive, but having a class set and assigning each student to a monitor for the week would be more realistic. My district for the final project has many resources we can utilize, so each students gets to borrow and track their daily heart rate levels using their own app on the iPad. Students will make daily entries on
the class using Google Drive to log max, min, average heart rate, and total
time in zone over the course of 5 days on a class shared powerpoint. Each student
will write about what activities they participated in for each day and at the
end of the lesson, they will reflect on how their time in zone is related to their
overall heart rate stats and activities in which they participated in a presentation of their choice (PowerPoint, Prezi, a personal video, or Screencastify).
The fact is that student's today LOVE using technology. By integrating both the device and the final project using multi-media, students are much more likely to show enthusiasm towards physical education and fitness. I think in the future, students will be required to have their own means of tracking personal fitness data, such as a FitBit or a heart rate monitor or any other sort of tracking device. They are becoming more and more common, and I think that as physical fitness rises, so will the prevalence of these devices. It is a great, relative way to teach students about health and fitness for life!
Sunday, November 27, 2016
Friday, November 11, 2016
Gifted Students
1) What is something that surprised you or that you learned from the videos? What myth or prior belief do you find out was false and what is the reality?
> One thing that I was surprised to learn from these videos on gifted and talented students was that the "new normal" is recognized as anxiety and fear of trying new things. This really made me self-reflect a bit about my own educational experiences. I was a straight A student in grade school. And when I clearly understood class material, I was confident and would often tutor my friends in math and on class projects. But when I did not understand something, I was awkward and easily frustrated and definitely felt anxious about class. This is exactly what the video was talking about with gifted students. I did have a perfectionist outlook on school and grades. I guess I always knew I was a good student, but this video kind of brought it all together for me.
> Additionally, I found this sentence from the video quite provoking: "we can't hold bad academic challenges based on their emotional or social levels". As a teacher, we can easily recognize students who are "outcasts" or "loners". But just because they prefer to work on their own doesn't mean they are less gifted academically. According to this video, it's actually quite the opposite. Choosing to work individually is normal for gifted students. We need to continue to challenge these students as much as we would with others who are more social and outgoing.
2) How can you use what you learned in your present and future classrooms? How can technology play a part? Be specific.
> I will use this in my gym classroom when allowing students to work individually or with groups. We often do fitness activities where students can choose to work individually on activities or by themselves. I can already imagine the handful of kids in my placement classroom that would work individually.. This is a great opportunity for the teacher to build student-teacher relationships. I would participate with these students to try to get to know them better and motivate them to try harder and/or think of new ways to accomplish the same task. This would challenge them in a way that maybe their peers would not.
> Playing online games with friends from all over the world can help these students not feel so isolated. During PE, we sometimes use technology for virtual fitness, such as "Adventures to Fitness". These videos are led by an adventurer who teaches the students about everything from history and geology to biology of animals across the globe. This could be especially effective for gifted students at the elementary level because there is a lot of advanced knowledge embedded into the class video. So although the exercises are easy, the advanced knowledge base within the video is a good challenge for the gifted students.
> One thing that I was surprised to learn from these videos on gifted and talented students was that the "new normal" is recognized as anxiety and fear of trying new things. This really made me self-reflect a bit about my own educational experiences. I was a straight A student in grade school. And when I clearly understood class material, I was confident and would often tutor my friends in math and on class projects. But when I did not understand something, I was awkward and easily frustrated and definitely felt anxious about class. This is exactly what the video was talking about with gifted students. I did have a perfectionist outlook on school and grades. I guess I always knew I was a good student, but this video kind of brought it all together for me.
> Additionally, I found this sentence from the video quite provoking: "we can't hold bad academic challenges based on their emotional or social levels". As a teacher, we can easily recognize students who are "outcasts" or "loners". But just because they prefer to work on their own doesn't mean they are less gifted academically. According to this video, it's actually quite the opposite. Choosing to work individually is normal for gifted students. We need to continue to challenge these students as much as we would with others who are more social and outgoing.
2) How can you use what you learned in your present and future classrooms? How can technology play a part? Be specific.
> I will use this in my gym classroom when allowing students to work individually or with groups. We often do fitness activities where students can choose to work individually on activities or by themselves. I can already imagine the handful of kids in my placement classroom that would work individually.. This is a great opportunity for the teacher to build student-teacher relationships. I would participate with these students to try to get to know them better and motivate them to try harder and/or think of new ways to accomplish the same task. This would challenge them in a way that maybe their peers would not.
> Playing online games with friends from all over the world can help these students not feel so isolated. During PE, we sometimes use technology for virtual fitness, such as "Adventures to Fitness". These videos are led by an adventurer who teaches the students about everything from history and geology to biology of animals across the globe. This could be especially effective for gifted students at the elementary level because there is a lot of advanced knowledge embedded into the class video. So although the exercises are easy, the advanced knowledge base within the video is a good challenge for the gifted students.
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