During the past 8 weeks, there were plenty of opportunities for "an old dog, to learn new tricks". Being a PE teacher, makes the application of new tricks a little more difficult, but I feel that each will have a time and/or place to be used. One of these new tricks was learning how to create a Digital Badge and a Digital Badge Pathway. While on the surface, I am not sure how receptive high school students would be to the "digital badge" reward, I think it can be useful in, even in PE. Depending on how the Pathway is constructed, could allow students to be self directed learners and allow students to learn at their own pace. This would push the focus of the classroom from teacher led to student led. It could potentially allow students to explore other areas of a topic based on interest and ability. The following link contains examples of a couple pathways that I constructed for my Sports Medicine class. Part of that assignment/activity was also creating the badge that would go to the student upon completion of the Pathway.
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