How Artificial Intelligence Transforms the Lives of Individuals with Disabilities. Virtual Personal Assistants. Social Media Algorithms. Online Shopping Recommendations. Fraud Detection. Content Moderation. You may not realize it, but Artificial Intelligence (AI) is involved in each of these things. If AI can recommend suggested products based on browsing and purchase history, how can it make work and life more accommodating for my disability? Throughout this blog post, Collin and Naomi tackle this question and share how they have been purposely and authentically using artificial intellig ..read more

Artificial Intelligence (AI) language models are on the rise. The world’s largest tech companies are in a race to develop the most powerful and most used tools. Microsoft Copilot (powered by Open AI), Google Bard, GrammarlyGo, and Adobe FireFly are examples. A multitude of applications and platforms are being developed daily (honestly, I can’t keep up). Open AI appears to be leading the way, with others chasing to catch up.  Buckle up because AI-Language Models will shift the world and how we do everything. I was curious, so I asked ChatGPT 3(a free ..read more

Greetings from SHAPE Seattle 2023! It’s been so great seeing so many old friends while here over the past week. We’ve heard from so many people asking us, “is the band getting back together?” The short answer is, the band never broke up! We have just been working on all of our various solo projects! We are all at different points in our professional lives now, but we have never stopped caring about or contributing to our profession in our own unique ways. However, something has been missing over the past few years. We want to stretch our thinking. We want deeper conversations about pedagogy ..read more

Authors Note: The Demo Slam is a quick way to share an instructional tip, strategy, or tool. Its origins are outside of the PE world, but I do think Collin Brooks and I may be responsible for popularizing it with the PE community at SHAPE America National Convention in Seattle in 2015. The purpose is to crowdsource ideas quickly so think of it as a tip of the day. 3-2-1-SLAM! I absolutely LOVE teaching students how to do pushups. It seems pretty basic, but it’s something I’m very mindful and passionate about because…I was terrible at them! As an adult, I now know why. I was always the tal ..read more

Authors Note: This set of microblogs will cover a wide variety of instructional practices that the pandemic has either made me think about them differently or has led me to question them all together. The working title of the series is “Things I Think” because they are based on my perceptions and experiences and are subject to change. These posts should be looked at in the context of reflecting on teaching elementary physical education in person during the pandemic from January 2021 – June 2022. “I will know you’re ready when you’re elbow to elbow with a partner in 5…4…3…” “How quickly ca ..read more

Greetings fellow Physical Education friends! It has been a while, hasn’t it? I suppose not much has changed–well, other than the global pandemic that completely turned education and schools upside down. As I’m sitting here by myself on Day 3 of my own isolation–and honestly being a little surprised that it took this long for COVID-19 to finally get its grip on me, I started to finally go through my notes of all the things over the past couple of years I’ve wanted to talk about and share. One of the best things about maintaining this website is the ability to go back and look at the last 10 yea ..read more

To the almost 25,000 champions for physical and health education who follow the PHYSEDagogy community, I have a very personal ask of you tonight.  Oregon students need your help in advocating for quality physical education. The state’s largest district, Portland Public Schools, announced a proposed budget on Monday, June 8th that falls on the backs of elementary physical education. Here is the relevant slide from their presentation: This is a 16% reduction of their entire PE staff district wide and all of the cuts would be at the elementary level. Also, you won’t find in the slide ..read more

Happy #PhysEdSummit 2020 Day! CLICK HERE to access the #PhysEdSummit page. CLICK HERE to access the Conference Program. Happy Learning ..read more

#PhysEdSummit 2020 is quickly approaching! With that in mind, the #PhysEdSummit team wants to make sure you are setup for success to participate and learn with this year’s summit.  First, let’s get a quick FAQ out of the way: What is the #PhysEdSummit?It is a FREE online conference for #HealthEd & #PhysEd teachers on May 9 from 8am-2pm EDT. This year’s conference features 37 sessions from 51 presenters who teach in 8 different countries. Why should I RSVP?RSVPing gives you a first look at the full conference program on April 27. The RSVP Form is closed. Can I still RSVP?If you didn’t ..read more

The #PhysEdSummit Conference Program is LIVE! We are excited and we hope you are too.  See you on May 9th! To access the conference program, CLICK HERE. To access a PDF version of the program, CLICK HERE. To learn more about the Summit, visit our #PhysEdSummit page by CLICKING HERE ..read more