Saturday, September 11, 2010
Blog post topic due September 23rd.
Write about Online Physical Education (OLPE). I am not putting any other restrictions on what you need to write about. You may address any topic within this area including age, grades, appropriateness, elementary, middle school, high school, college, support for or against, and many other topics. Feel free to bring in outside sources or links. I expect the posting to be at least 2 paragraphs long.
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Online physical education seems like an oxymoron to me. The point of physical education is to be active during 51% of class time and to learn how to be physically active for life. When children are learning about physical education online, on a computer, they are being sedentary. They are sitting in front of a screen instead of participating in the physical activity that they should be doing in class. Computers are one of the many factors that contribute to the increasing number of obese children in our country, so why would we want to take away their physical education and put it on a computer? And who is to say that a child will actually go through with the activities they are given online if no one is monitoring them. I also think a downside to OLPE is that the teacher and student lose the connection they can form from face to face interaction.
ReplyDeleteI think online physical education could be used in a good way though. If it is used with actual physical education class that meets face to face then I think it could work. It could be used to help students begin to learn a task being taught in class the next day so they are not walking in blind. Also, It can be used to evaluate students more efficiently with online quizzes and assignments. Overall I think that OLPE is not as beneficial to students as physical education class as we know it today.