EDSS 530 Learning in New Media Enviroments

EDSS 530 Learning in New Media Enviroments:

I would like you to watch this presentation, "Learning in New Media Environments." (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=DwyCAtyNYHw)  and write a reflection (as as new blog post) based on this idea: What does this video mean for you as a person, a parent, an educator, and a leader? You can answer any or all of the ideas that apply. Please share your post on Twitter and comment on your peers' posts as well.

As an educator, this video means I need to reshape all the traditional Physical Education teaching practices that have been taught in the past.  In the past it has been about delivering information to the student on how to move correctly, to be successful in different sports.  Its been about developing their locomotor and manipulative skills.  P.E. often is about trying to get kids in shape in a limited amount of time to pass the fitness gram.  According to this video we have been doing it all wrong!  Which is true.  More emphasis needs to be put on why a student wants to learn how to develop their locomotor and manipulative skills.  More emphasis needs to be placed on how a student can teach themselves to develop their skills.  

Above all, it is more important to teach a student how to made fit and healthy choices for the rest of their lives.  We need to empower students to take care of themselves, not making sure they are running and moving for 45 min 5 days a week in a uniform.  Even more important than that students need to be given the opportunity to learn to enjoy and embrace physical movement. So they are willing to learn more ways to care for themselves, and don't see exercise as another chore to be completed in a day.  

As a physical educator, this is the message that "Learning in New Media Enviroments" meant to me.  Physical Education is in a different setting.  Internet and media sources are often an outside of class assignment to help enrich what happens in the class.  The actions of the class, and these changes that I want to make, can be helped along by the media sources currently being developed and shaping a new society.