How technology enhances the physical education curriculum

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How technology enhances the physical education curriculum

In order to improve the physical education curriculum educators must incorporate technology to enhance computer literacy, develop software that complements physical education and integrate technology to enhance performance. The world we live in today is filled with technological advancements and we are only going to become more and more technologically oriented as a society in the future. These new advancements in technology are improving our lives and making things possible we had never thought possible before now. As well as these changes in our daily lives, technology has also changed the face of education, specifically physical education. As educators searching for the best possible way for our students to learn we must use everything we can to enhance learning and to enhance the curriculum. Technology continuously provides us with opportunities to improve our learning making it easier to access many things that before were just not possible. Technology enables us to do things that a lot of us take for granted but because of technology we have access to the world without leaving the confines of one room. There are many new ways use and incorporate technology in physical education in order to improve and enhance the physical education curriculum. With the prevalence of all these technological advancements it is unbelievable that most teachers don’t take advantage of it more to help us to enhance the physical education curriculum.

The need to incorporate technology in the classroom is extremely great. With the increasing obesity trends most likely due to lack of inactivity children are suffering from more and more health related problems. “Doctors are alarmed about ...

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