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Five Ways to Use Generative Artificial Intelligence in Physical Education

Thomas Trendowski

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Generative artificial intelligence (GAI) is a growing topic that has caught the attention of many eyes lately. Perhaps one of the more famous platforms people think of is ChatGPT, which came about in late 2022. However, now there are other platforms, like DALL-E, Midjourney, Gemini, and Copilot. In essence, this is technology that can generate data from prompts that include text, images, or other forms of media. This article will mainly focus using ChatGPT and DALL-E; however, many of the other platforms have the same capabilities.

The purpose of this article is to discuss how physical education (PE) teachers can use these types of technologies for the following five tasks: curriculum development and planning, adjusting activities, providing diverse instruction, conducting assessments, and helping with student motivation and behavior management. Each of these uses will be explained using a volleyball bumping lesson, as this example will be consistently used as the focus throughout this article.

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