Ontario Physical Health Education Association presentation on technology. Workshop looks at integrating technology in to the physical education classroom.

1. Enhancing Learning with
Technology
Mark Verbeek
HWDSB K-12 Physical Education & Healthy
Schools Consultant
Monica Moran
Helen Detwiler – Physical Education Teacher

3. Why Technology?
• Motivation – student and teacher
• Engagement – student and teacher
• Student Leadership and Mentoring
• Capturing Student Voice
• Allowing for Student Choice

4. Pedagogical Context
“ Information and communications technology (ICT) provides a range of
tools that can significantly extend and enrich teachers’ instructional
strategies and support students’ learning.”
“ICT tools are also useful for teachers in their teaching practice, both for
class instruction and for the design of curriculum units that contain
varied approaches to learning to meet diverse student needs in
health and physical education.”

5. Pedagogical Context
Living Skills
Personal Skills – self-awareness and self-monitoring
Interpersonal Skills – communication skills – verbal and non-verbal
Critical and Creative Thinking – planning, processing, drawing
conclusions/presenting results and reflecting/evaluating
Active Living
Physical Fitness – assessment and monitoring
Movement Competence
Movement Skills & Strategies – assessment as and for learning

6. Levels of Integration
SAMR Model

7. “…significantly extend and enrich teachers’ instructional
strategies and support students’ learning…”
-Ontario HPE Curriculum 2010
*linked to learning goal and success criteria
Descriptive Feedback
-specific and timely
Differentiated Instruction
-Extensions
-Scaffolding
High Yield Strategies
-On-going assessment as, for learning
-Accountable talk
-Gradual Release of Responsibility
Making Learning Visible
Affecting Learning

8. “provide precise information about what they are doing
well, what needs improvement, and what specific steps
they can take to improve” – Growing Success 2010
Checklist:
1. Doing well…
”I like when you step with the opposite foot.”
2. Needs improvement…
“You may have more success if you are lower when releasing.”
3. Steps to improvement…
“Try bending your knees and hips to lower your body.”
Descriptive Feedback

9. Level of integration will be determined greatly by the curricular
and pedagogical knowledge, the application of that knowledge
through the use of technology selected.
The goal of technology enhancing or transforming the
instructional practice through assessment as, for and of
learning.
Technology enhances and can transform instructional practice,
it does not replace it.
In Summary...

10. People to Learn from…
www.thepegeek.com
www.schrockguide.net

11. “DIY”