Introduction As physical performance may be more difficult for overweight children than for their non-overweight peers, understanding how weight impacts student performance in the physical education (P.E.) classroom could inform school-based obesity prevention programming. Materials and methods This qualitative case study examined one elementary physical educator's perspectives of overweight ...

Detecting human arm motion in a typical classroom environment is a challenging task due to the noisy and highly dynamic background, varying light conditions, as well as the small size and multiple number of possible matched objects. A robust vision system that can detect events of students' hands being raised for asking questions is described. This system is intended to support the collaborativ...

Schools have been identified as a central element in a system that ensures that children participate in enough physical activity to develop healthy lifestyles. Even with this recommendation, many school-based physical activity opportunities are being eliminated/minimized (i.e. physical education (PE), recess). With children spending much of their time at school, other supplemental physical acti...

In the context of COVID-19 pandemic, classroom activities in primary school, marked by physical distancing between students and teachers, raise some challenges. Thus, this article seeks to document school students’ perceptions regarding their socio-pedagogical environment a socially distanced classroom. For purpose, responses Questionnaire sur l’environnement sociopédagogique au primaire (QESPP...

In this paper, we present our current work on Intelligent Environment the Smart Classroom project. It is an augmented classroom used for teachers in the distant education. The teacher can write directly on a wall-size media-board or use speech and gesture to conduct the class discussion involving of the distant students. It is just the experience that the teacher was familiar with in the ordina...

The aim of the present study was to examine how the social norms shared in a classroom environment influence the development of movement dynamics of handwriting of children who participate in the environment. To look into this issue, the following aspects of the entire period of classroom learning of hiragana letters in Japanese 1st graders who had just entered primary school were studied: Firs...

BACKGROUND The modern classroom is an inherently sedentary environment. Virtual Field Trips (VFTs) using interactive whiteboards to explore virtual scenes are a potential method of converting sedentary class-time into physically active teaching. This pilot aimed to assess the effects of a developed VFT on physical activity and learning in primary-school children. METHODS Participants (n = 85)...