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The Game II
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0.  Posted: Wed May 14, 2003 10:06 pm Post subject: Maybe DDR will be "the thing" in PE |
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I saw this story while leafing through the Associated Press / Gannett News Service wires just now.
I'll add my comments later
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By Michael Hiestand
Gannett News Service
Phil Lawler, a junior high physical education teacher in Naperville, Ill., has the passion of a convert.
I was Mr. Anti-video game, he says. Thats been our enemy.
Yet Lawler applied this week for federal grant money that, in part, would buy exercise bikes hooked up to video games, and so-called dance machines popular in video game arcades as well as high-tech heart-rate monitors to let him monitor everybodys heart rate by computer.
Dodge ball seems endangered. Sometimes we adults dont live in the same world as these kids, who grew up in a world of technology, Lawler says. Theres no question this high-tech stuff is going to take off.
Sports gear-makers hope so, if it keeps kids moving. With child obesity rates having doubled in 20 years, they worry todays tots wont buy stuff to make them sweat when they finally get their own credit cards. So gear-makers and retailers created P.E.4LIFE, an advocacy group that lobbies for the $60 million, up from $5 million in 2000, in annual federal grants for innovative P.E. programs.
Says P.E.4LIFE director Anne Flannery, who previously worked at Spalding heading the first major corporate division devoted to womens sports gear, When we talk about 21st-century P.E., its about embracing technology.
Tim McCord, who teaches junior high P.E. in Titusville, Pa., largely agrees. Hes ordered Dance Dance Revolution machines, meant to produce competitive dancing between kids following video game cues. Says McCord, who saw kids flock to the machines in arcades, Its something that hits kids where they live.
McCord also uses GameRider exercise bikes, which are made by Gardena, Calif.-based Hollywood Engineering, cost up to $1,500 and use Sony PlayStation games. Users peddle to keep their video-game race cars moving. Says McCord, Kids fight to get on them.
But the innovations go beyond video games. Hes applied for grant money for pedometers that measure each step you take - our goal is to get kids to take 10,000 steps per day - as well as updated wristwatch-sized heart-rate monitors that are downloaded through infrared interfaces to give you daily printouts on kids.
Rick Schupback teaches elementary school P.E. in Grundy Center, Iowa, where next year hell train instructors from around the country via a P.E.4LIFE model program. He uses tools such as a $5,000 assessment machine to record kids body fat, flexibility and strength and stores data in handheld PCs. More technology, he says, is inevitable: We need accountability, documented evidence, about our students. |
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| 1. Posted: Wed May 14, 2003 10:29 pm Post subject: |
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It really is pathetic when kids are so unmotivated to excercise or to even stay in shape that you have to use video games just to get them to excercise. I mean, you'd THINK that they would care enough about their own health to stay in shape, but I guess not  . Well whatever works I guess. |
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| 3. Posted: Wed May 14, 2003 11:52 pm Post subject: |
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| LadyMercury2000 wrote: | Wish I had a PE teacher like that  |
me too, damn... I hate running
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| 5. Posted: Thu May 15, 2003 9:13 am Post subject: |
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10,000 steps per day?
Just imagine in gym class they'll be doing MAX 300 18 times. |
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| 6. Posted: Thu May 15, 2003 10:44 am Post subject: |
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| Flea Plus wrote: | 10,000 steps per day?
Just imagine in gym class they'll be doing MAX 300 18 times. |
Or So Deep 20 times with a requirement to FC it at least once (500 steps).
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| 7. Posted: Thu May 15, 2003 3:14 pm Post subject: |
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THIS JUST IN!!
Boxer Mike Tyson uses Para Para Paradise to train!!!...Not rilly...  |
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| 8. Posted: Thu May 15, 2003 4:33 pm Post subject: |
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haha imagin the new phisical fitness tests. lol. put wat u think they should have example
for the mile play something hella hard like max300 or LOM u get the idea
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| 9. Posted: Thu May 15, 2003 4:36 pm Post subject: |
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That would rok.
I would be so popular, because everybody else sux at meh school. =p
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| 10. Posted: Thu May 15, 2003 5:09 pm Post subject: |
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The high school that I start at next year has about 5 decent players. Of course I would have the highest grade in the whole school because you know.. I'm me! 
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| 11. Posted: Thu May 15, 2003 6:25 pm Post subject: |
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Our high school has MAX 2, not for PE use though....
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| 12. Posted: Thu May 15, 2003 10:45 pm Post subject: |
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Maybe your grade could be the grade you get at the end of a set of 3 songs! Just kidding.
| Nitro wrote: | | It really is pathetic when kids are so unmotivated to excercise or to even stay in shape that you have to use video games just to get them to excercise. I mean, you'd THINK that they would care enough about their own health to stay in shape, but I guess not . Well whatever works I guess. |
People often take their health for granted. Once you get out of shape it is very difficult to get back in shape which makes exercise less encouraging. It's not always that people dont' care about their health - it's that it is very easy to be absent minded about how much exercise you get. Other people however don't really care about their health at all, because they don't feel good about themselves.
Also exercise activities need to be something you really are interested in. If you just do a certain type of exercise activity that you don't think is fun, you are likely not to stick with it and not pay too much attention to your health. If exercise video games are addictive for some people, then it is not a sad thing, but a very happy thing!
My main point is that without an addictive source of exercise it is very easy to take your health for granted. So it's cool and not sad that exercise video games are getting kids to exercise. |
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| 13. Posted: Thu May 15, 2003 11:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Daniel wrote: | People often take their health for granted. Once you get out of shape it is very difficult to get back in shape which makes exercise less encouraging. It's not always that people dont' care about their health - it's that it is very easy to be absent minded about how much exercise you get. Other people however don't really care about their health at all, because they don't feel good about themselves.
Also exercise activities need to be something you really are interested in. If you just do a certain type of exercise activity that you don't think is fun, you are likely not to stick with it and not pay too much attention to your health. If exercise video games are addictive for some people, then it is not a sad thing, but a very happy thing!
My main point is that without an addictive source of exercise it is very easy to take your health for granted. So it's cool and not sad that exercise video games are getting kids to exercise. |
True, like I said, it is sad that many people are out of shape, and are oblivious to the fact that it could cause problems later down the road in their life, or they just don't want to do it. And thats the good thing about things like ddr, its fun, and it actually provides exercise for the lazy, and the video game addicts. But ddr is by no means a complete substitute for what a gym or a real PE class can really do for you, its kind of like that first step that introduces you to what else is out there. |
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| 14. Posted: Fri May 16, 2003 12:57 am Post subject: |
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| Nitro wrote: | | Daniel wrote: | People often take their health for granted. Once you get out of shape it is very difficult to get back in shape which makes exercise less encouraging. It's not always that people dont' care about their health - it's that it is very easy to be absent minded about how much exercise you get. Other people however don't really care about their health at all, because they don't feel good about themselves.
Also exercise activities need to be something you really are interested in. If you just do a certain type of exercise activity that you don't think is fun, you are likely not to stick with it and not pay too much attention to your health. If exercise video games are addictive for some people, then it is not a sad thing, but a very happy thing!
My main point is that without an addictive source of exercise it is very easy to take your health for granted. So it's cool and not sad that exercise video games are getting kids to exercise. |
True, like I said, it is sad that many people are out of shape, and are oblivious to the fact that it could cause problems later down the road in their life, or they just don't want to do it. And that’s the good thing about things like ddr, its fun, and it actually provides exercise for the lazy, and the video game addicts. But ddr is by no means a complete substitute for what a gym or a real PE class can really do for you, its kind of like that first step that introduces you to what else is out there. |
DDR is all you need to keep you in shape. Everything else is for building strength, speed, or agility. Getting in shape is all you need to do. Not everybody needs incredible strength, speed, and/or agility. |
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| 15. Posted: Fri May 16, 2003 10:21 am Post subject: |
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| Nitro wrote: | | But ddr is by no means a complete substitute for what a gym or a real PE class can really do for you, its kind of like that first step that introduces you to what else is out there. |
Exactly, like basketball, baseball and soccer...things students DO in physical education class.
I've always thought that if DDR is in PE class, it should not be the focal point of the class.
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| 16. Posted: Fri May 16, 2003 12:07 pm Post subject: |
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i | lets_maxx wrote: | haha imagin the new phisical fitness tests. lol. put wat u think they should have example
for the mile play something hella hard like max300 or LOM u get the idea |
i would suck t it. i am a cata kid (10 yrs) no im not trying to brag, i have never even beat a 10. but, kids in my class fail 1 footers so theyd make you do cutie chaser as the Physical.  
i guess id just AA it and then beg for HVAM heavy (to show 'em up)
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| 17. Posted: Fri May 16, 2003 3:31 pm Post subject: |
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| The Game II of AIM wrote: | | Nitro wrote: | | But ddr is by no means a complete substitute for what a gym or a real PE class can really do for you, its kind of like that first step that introduces you to what else is out there. |
Exactly, like basketball, baseball and soccer...things students DO in physical education class.
I've always thought that if DDR is in PE class, it should not be the focal point of the class. |
How is Basketball, baseball, soccer, and other sports any better than DDR? Sports don't appeal to everybody. |
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| 18. Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 1:45 pm Post subject: |
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Kids are getting so fat these days! DDR in P.E. would be great! Even Fattys might be interested in it, most of them would be to afraid to be embarassed though, but it's even more embarising looking at them. lol.
no offence anybody
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| 19. Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 2:19 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah, I think for the mid-terms you'd get your final grade on what grade you got at the end of a set of 6-footers, and for the finals, on a set of 9-footers.
Every kid, even the most out of shape, should be able to get A's on 6-footers after playing for 9 weeks if they put the slightest bit of effort into it.
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