Our presentation was on Goosechase, the app that can bring fun scavenger hunts to the your classrooms in an easy and effective way.
What is your technology inquiry question?
As the majority of our group has PHE as a teachable, we wanted to see how we could bring technology into a physical education classroom.
What is the relationship of your topic to teaching and learning?
This can gamify an assessment for truly any content. Students can show their learning in a fun, team-oriented environment where they can get physical activity.
What are the pros, cons, and risks?
What are some of the strategies, best practices, and tips regarding your inquiry findings?
This could also be used on field trips, and other topics outside of PE. We often don’t get enough physical activity in our classes outside of PE. This is a fun way to bring that in while showing kids new technologies.
Individual Reflection
I was really happy with our presentation, not only did we get to introduce the app, discuss logistics, pros and cons of using the applications, and using the app amongst different subjects. We also got to do a quick demo of using the app for the class so that our classmates could experience it themselves. As some of the best learning can occur by actually doing the activities.
This app really connects to concepts in our other courses like providing multiple modalities for our students to show their knowledge, it can be an outlet to provide physical activity in all classes and can be used for student field trips to highlight just a few of its most impactful uses.
I feel that our presentation not only introduced our classmates to something new, but also gave them the opportunity to try something new. For that reason, I feel like they may be more likely to implement it into their future classrooms.