ophea tech 2014
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Enhancing Learning with Technology
Mark VerbeekHWDSB K-12 Physical Education & Healthy
Schools Consultant
Monica MoranHelen Detwiler – Physical Education Teacher
Why Technology?
• Motivation – student and
teacher
• Engagement – student and
teacher
• Student Leadership and
Mentoring
• Capturing Student Voice
• Allowing for Student Choice
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.”
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
Levels of Integration
SAMR Model
“…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 ResponsibilityMaking Learning Visible
Affecting Learning
“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
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...
People to Learn from…
www.thepegeek.com
www.schrockguide.net
“DIY”