If the traditional PE workout were working, we wouldn't have an abundance of obese students in our population. Digital is where todays students live, educators need to join the digital reality and change the way we teach in all areas including PE.

It is a narrow minded view to blame the presence of obesity on supposed ineffectiveness of current PE programs. What innovations like Dance Dance do is replace a teacher in front of the class leading the physical activity, they do not change activity levels. Is it a benefit to role model to students that adults aren't active by replacing them with animation? What changes activity levels (which are completely different to obesity) is the passion of the teacher and the commitment of the school. If it is not seen as important, it won't work.

It isn't the traditional PE classes that is resulting in an abundance of obese students, it is their lifestyle. The way we eat and our exercise level all, obviously, effect our health. Americans do not eat healthy, and unfortunately our youth are becoming less and less physically active. Perhaps adding a new, digital portion to PE would spice the classroom up a bit, however, I believe it to be a unfair and innacurate suggestion that traditional PE classes are the cause of rising obesity.

Companies like Apex Virtual School offer an on-line PE that helps students set up a personal workout program, gives exercise instruction that doesn't require fancy equipment, and had interactive learning about related topics like healthy hearts, nutrition, and safety. Many students, like myself as a child, are intimidated by dodgeball but love jump rope. Having an individualized program builds self-esteem while establishing life-long exercise habits.

DDR is cost prohibitive, this is a great activity to put in the student center for access during lunch. Physical Education in the State of CA has a rich curriculum. I have just taken a summer fitness class in core strength and stability, I taught it as part of the fitness portion of my classes last year. Fitness is much more than cardio, what about strength and balance? Core fitness and stability is non stop, different every day and has strong appeal for the student who wants to get fit and not be bored. Furthermore, DDR is not an example of "technology in education" anymore than wearing an IPod while jogging is. Please.

Physical Education is a phenomena of United States schools and is a set of core expectations through eight component strands and three standards(at high school level) or five (elementary level) in California. Physical Education is not simply a focus on one thing, dance taught to physical education standards, a team sport or the like. It is a set of learning expectations at each grade level K-8 and a set of learning expectations for high school in our state. To do only "one thing" such as this program suggests is NOT physical education, it is an activity that is physical. The same is true of football, swimming, and the like - they are not physical education but a sport or athletics that is active. Physical Education prepares students for a healthy and fit life beyond school.

If we're talking about cardiovascular exercises, a digital supplement could help. But I've also seen kids learning how to use weights and muscle strengthening machines. Of course, they can't do as much as adults since they're still developing, but giving them a more systematic approach to toning themselves gives them knowledge on top of exercise.
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Digital fitness has the ability to provide kids with both very traditional and truly modern forms of physical activity. If you think about it actually, the Internet provides a means to absolutely anything.

Take GoTrybe.com for instance... this site provides digital fitness videos led by certified trainers that can be projected for a PE or traditional classroom and leads students through fitness workouts of all kinds. These workouts include hip hop dancing, kick boxing, strength and conditioning, cardio, salsa dancing, zumba, sport specific drills, and much more. Digital classrooms have the ability to provide virtually anything if it's used in the right way.

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