Technology Integration in Physical Education

Physical education, in the meantime, has evolved as school subject that willingly adapts to technology trends to foster students. Several efforts to nurture and facilitate technology integration in physical education indicate the growth in interest in this topic over the past years: multiple physical education teacher education (PETE) programs, textbooks, and journal papers have adopted technology issues as a regular topic in the realm of physical education research and practice. However, there may exist a huge gap between conceptual theory and daily practice. The existence of technology well suited for physical education and best-practice examples integrating technology in physical education does not necessarily lead to technology-enhanced physical education classes on a regular basis. Some physical education teachers may very well be aware of the latest technology and publications, but might not bring technology-enhanced teaching scenarios to life due to missing resources, lacking ICT literacy, or even technology aversion, vice versa.