Teaching online Physical Education during social distancing using Google Sites

Abstract

Covid-19 has resulted in the implementation of social distancing measures and school closures worldwide. This study explores some of the impacts, such as pedagogies, teaching strategies, reflections, and barriers of the teacher as he suddenly moved to an online teaching environment and taught PE lessons with the use of technology (Google Sites). A self-study methodology with thematic analysis was used to investigate the lead author’s experiences. Findings and discussions highlight how the teacher had to find new forms of teaching online, ways of making the students not be exclusively in front of the screen, and simultaneously be concordant with the social and dynamic characteristics of PE. Ultimately, the experiences and the process of reflection demonstrated the need to be coherent with teaching beliefs, assumptions, theoretical approaches and practices as a teacher. This article foregrounds and contributes to future ways of teaching PE online by understanding one teacher’s praxis.

The Role of Technology in Physical Education Teaching in the Wake of the Pandemic

“…In terms of content analysis, the reviewed studies considered students [39,40] as participants in physical education and sport, as well as teachers in training [41,42] and active teachers [43,44]. Regarding the technologies used in both online [48,49] and blended [47,51] teaching, different platforms and webinars [46] stood out, as well as the use of augmented reality [46] or explanatory videos in flipped classroom methodologies [46] and gamification [47], mobile applications, or e-sports competitions [48]. When analysing the results, different effects were observed depending on the level of ICT competence of students and teachers [45,52], and the negative emotional impact of the situation was confirmed for both students [53,54] and teachers.…”

“…As mentioned above, studies were found where the teaching modality was online, as were others that used mixed modalities. For example, Mariano et al [48,49] analysed an online teaching modality during the pandemic in which e-sports (sports video game competitions) such as Mobile Legends or Team Sports were used and the losers were penalised with additional physical exercise. Also in the online teaching modality, Kulkarni et al [50] combined the use of different technologies in a model of enhanced online engineering education.…”

Design of intelligent assistive system for physical education: based on personalized training plan

“…A teacher must possess pedagogical competence alongside professional competency and specific topic instructional competency (trying to transfer the individual's content to his children in a manner they can comprehend as specified in curriculum and educational targets). Someone can establish a positive learning environment for his children's by being pedagogically competent [26][27][28][29][30][31][32]. They keep tabs on their children's' progress in terms of their cognition and memory and then adjust their actions accordingly.…”