My driving question (ever evolving) is: “What effect does tracking nutrition digitally have on student behavior and success?” For my action research study I will doing a mixed methods study to analyze how nutrition effects our student's behaviors throughout the day. I want to see if there is a correlation between nutrition, or lack of, and referral rates.
I will be utilizing students personal devices (ie. cell phones) and a free app named MyFitnessPal as tools to implement my action research study. Students will use the app to record their diet and within that app it can calculate how many calories from fat, carbohydrates, protein, etc. Students will be able to share this data with me through the app which is one of the many reason why I chose this app. I also love that it gives tips and assists the students in setting goals (actually a fantastic tool for young people and adults). I have chosen to utilize their cell phone because everyone of my students has one and it is always with them, so hopefully they will never forget to record. I am interested to see if digitally tracking their nutrition with this app on their cell phone helps my students with achieving their goals in both improving their behavior and with academic success.
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It has been extremely difficult to find seminal people for and consistent research for my Driving question (What effect does physical education and knowledge of health science have a students ability to be strong learners and how can we utilize technology to promote healthy living?) especially because it is a broad question. I have found that when it comes to utilizing technology within a physical education classroom it seems to be easier said than done. I have found multiple articles which give ideas and suggestions but conclude that even though PE teachers are open to using technology there is little to know resources to make this happen. A name I did come across a couple of times while researching, in particular, using heart rate monitors in the class was Stewart Trost a professor of Physical Activity and Health, in the School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences and Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, at Queensland University of Technology, Australia. Trost has conducted many studies and produced multiple publications surrounding sports, childhood obesity, physical education and more. In one study also linked below he found that there is a significant decrease in physical activity between childhood and adolecence years. IRB LinkFinal Two Articles
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