I am preparing to become a high school PE and theater teacher, so the idea of technology in the classroom is interesting to me. In general, the use of technology in a high school classroom cannot be underestimated or understated. Students of this day and age are growing up with technology the way the last generation grew up with balls and outside play things. It's just another part of their everyday lives. So technology in the classroom is one way to meet the students at their level. It is also what we are predicting the future to be based on. While we are in a self proclaimed Technology Age, it does not look like the production of new technology or use of modern technology will be slowing down any time soon.
In terms of my preferred PE position, there is much less I can do in terms of integrating technology into my classroom. My main goal is to get students moving, get them to learn the importance of lifetime activity and health, and to be motivated to engage in physical activity on their own and outside of the classroom/PE gym. With technology in the PE classroom I could have them looking up new and exciting games that they want to play, the rules and history to games they had never heard of before, and maybe even physical fitness feats they want to challenge their classmates to. In a health classroom I could have them put together slide shows on important health related topics, taking notes, writing reports, and even just doing general health related research. In my theater classroom technology could be of a little more use. There is also already a great deal of technology in producing a staged performance, so initially I could teach the students about that. Students could research plays and information on play writes, write and submit scripts to their own plays, record videos of them acting out plays to be shown to the class (especially if anyone has major stage fright). The students could record others performing plays for reference and critique the other students' work with voice overs or other notes. I could record (or use a recording of) a short bit of dialogue between characters and have the students act out the dialogue before and after seeing it acted out. On the other hand, I could switch that around and have the students record appropriate vocals to a silenced scene before seeing it acted out with sound. Both of these would give the students a chance to see how the same scenes and dialogue can be played differently and it could give them tips on how how they can improve their acting.
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