In the fourth week I completed the challenge of going two kick boxing classes. On last week, based on what we learned, I began to think about how to motivate students to learn. In my experience, games are the great tools, but I’m not sure they’re distracting.
I bought a motion sensing kickboxing game, the game has a trainer to teach you every action, I just follow the trainer ‘s action to punch, but my punch must be in accordance with the game rules of the beat, after each exercise, there will be score statistics. Depending on the number of punches, I can get some rewards, such as changing my trainer’s clothes and unlocking more music.
It also bothered me that I paid more attention to the beat of the punches so that I could get points. However, this will cause me to not punch hard enough and not mobilize my lower body to punch.
So I think it’s not effective to learn kickboxing through motion sensing games.
I have read Jessica’s blog, her post #3 is very meaningful to me, she mentioned the “outline”. She thinks that outline can let challenges more consistency, and can be more effective to reach our goals. It inspired me that if I set up an outline in the first week, determine which kickboxing actions to learn each week, and adjust learning method according to the reading of edci335, I think my challenge will be more efficient.
Here’s her blog: https://jessicahou.home.blog/2019/06/02/blog-3/
Overall, I learned to those basic movements of kickboxing, and participate in the face to face courses, and also experience learning through games. My physical fitness got better and I did exercises for 6 weeks that I couldn’t imagine it before. I am glad I finished my study challenge. I am very grateful for the course EDCI 335, which gave me the opportunity to try kickboxing and develop into an interest.
Yana 