KINE 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 21: Focus On The Family, Exergaming, Smartwatch

• School: York University
• Department: Kinesiology & Health Science
• Course: KINE 1000
• Professor: Hernan Humana

Document Summary

Examples of health/physical education digital technologies include wearable biometric and physical activity sensors such as the fitbit wristband and. Apple"s smartwatch, health and physical education apps for smartphones, and exergaming products. All of these make it easy to track your biometric data and physical activity levels. In the main reading for this unit, michael gard is concerned about the role that digital technologies are or may play in transforming health/physical education in ways that are not necessarily entirely for the better. Automationisdestroying jobs everywherethere are no obvious reasons to think that teaching, either in schools or in universities, will be immune from these developments (course reader, pp. Areas of hpe have already moved some distance towards teacher-free delivery. Nutrition education for children delivered by smart phone apps and. Internet sites is currently the subject of a growing number of public health intervention studies