Wearables may boost physical education — if data is used appropriately

In some physical education classes, students don wearables devices like the Apple Watch, giving instructors more specific data about a child’s workout, to help them meet fitness goals, wrote District Administration.Armbands, for example, show the heart rate of students in Washington’s Burlington-Edison School District. At one of the schools, Bay View Elementary, physical education teacher Marty Reese can view the impact working out is having physically on a student.How teachers and schools handle the data collected on students is also considered. Teachers — sometimes with help from the IT department — will delete the data that’s been collected after students transfer to a new school, or when they are promoted to a new grade. By putting wearable technology to use in schools, administrators and educators may find students more engaged in physical education (PE) classes, helping children learn the importance, and the impact, of exercising.