Information Technology-Assisted Sport Pedagogy and Assessments: Achievements, Lessons Learnt, and Challenges to Overcome
Ha, Amy Sau-ching
Ha, Amy Sau-ching
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Information technology has become an integral part of many people’s lives and is widely applied in many facets of education. For example, technological applications for activity measurement, such as the use of pedometers, heart rate monitors, or accelerometers, are common in physical education research. The ability to provide objective, accurate assessment of students’ physical activity is an important element in Quality Physical Education, a concept adopted by UNESCO, which highlights the role of school physical education in children’s overall well-being development. Nevertheless, similar digital tools are not frequently applied in frontline teaching. Further, unlike the measurement of physical activity quantity, technology-assisted teaching, and assessment tools for the measurement of movement quality are scarce. With motion capturing devices such as infrared depth cameras being very affordable, such technologies could be capitalized to capture and analyze movement skill performances. In this talk, I will share real-life examples of how technology application could be applied to school physical education (and beyond) and explain how these led to enhancements in teachers’ teaching effectiveness and students’ learning experiences in Hong Kong. Challenges faced and potential solutions at technological and implementation levels will be discussed. While some of the challenges have remained partially unresolved, and new obstacles could be expected in the future, the processes of navigating through these barriers have led to new ideas and opportunities, such as the use of artificial intelligence in movement quality assessment. The continuous advancement of technology and data analytical approaches will open doors to novel assessment approaches and methods to tackle research questions that were previously unachievable. By maintaining optimism and being open-minded to new opportunities, researchers and frontline teachers could work in tandem to further shift the field closer to the idealistic goal of delivering Quality Physical Education to all students across the globe.
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2024-09-20
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University of Wyoming Libraries
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sport pedagogy,information technology assisted