Background: There is a controversial debate about the use of digital media in physical education. There are various research results, which mostly do not relate to primary school, however. There are no known studies showing how media educational goals can be integrated into physical education. Our contribution takes this desideratum as its starting point. Taking both current discussion lines in sports pedagogy about physical education in elementary school and the basic assumptions of media education into account, we designed, implemented and evaluated teaching units for the use of digital media in physical education. Purpose: This occurred with regard to the research question of how students in elementary school interpret and experience the use of digital media in physical education when media educational goals and objectives of physical education are addressed equally. This raises the question which opportunities and limitations for educational processes (with regard to movement education, general education and also media education) can be reconstructed. Method: To address the question of students' perspectives and interpretations on the usage of digital media in physical education, tablets were used in the PE classroom of four primary school classes over the period of one school year. Lessons were developed and carried out in which students were tasked with creating media products using the tablets and the iMovie app. The teaching units were evaluated afterwards based on the research approach of focusing on the perspectives of the students involved. For this purpose, we conducted and analyzed 39 guided interviews with the students after each lesson. The data was analyzed using the grounded theory methodology. Findings: From the analysis of the interviews we developed a category system that describes phenomena of an extended range of access to the experience of physical activity in PE. These are captioned using the categories 'New creative roles and tasks' (which is divided in the two subcategories 'The empowered camera child' and 'The cool actor') and 'Focused products' (which is divided in the three subcategories 'Re-recording of a product', 'Improving and developing the product', and 'Appreciation and recognition of the product'). The results show that the children's main focus is on their experience of movement.

Digital media is currently one of the defining topics in discussions about schools and teaching. In this context, there has been a wide range of research in physical education (PE) in areas such as health, gamification, and wearable technologies. This raises the question of the goals pursued by empirical studies regarding the use of digital media in PE. The present systematic review provides an overview of the state of research in English and German on the use of digital media in PE. To this end, the included studies were those published between 2009 and 2020 in journals or edited volumes or as dissertations. They were found in relevant databases, selected based on criterion-guided screening, and transferred to the synthesis. Overall, this systematic review presents the possibilities and limitations of digital media in PE and highlights the goals regarding the use of digital media in PE that are pursued by empirical studies in the categories of physical, cognitive, social, affective, and school framework conditions. While benefits from the usage of digital media in PE—such as in terms of motivation or improving sport-specific motor capabilities and skills—were identified, barriers regarding the preparation of PE teachers were also found. More specifically, the benefits of using digital media to achieve PE-related goals were in the foreground in many of the selected studies. However, only a few specifically addressed learning via media, including topics such as data protection and the effect that viewing images has on students’ self-concepts.

Medienbildung stellt eine Querschnittaufgabe aller Schulfächer, so auch des Sportunterrichts dar, die in ihrer unterrichtlichen Umsetzung auch die jeweiligen fachdidaktischen und grundschulspezifischen Ansprüche erfüllen soll. Dies kann eine Herausforderung für die Unterrichtsfächer bzw. die unterrichtenden Fachlehrkräfte sein. Zur Integration dieser medienbildungsbezogener Themen in die konkrete (Fach-)Unterrichtspraxis liegen mittlerweile zwar vereinzelt Beispiele, jedoch für den hier fokussierten Sportunterricht noch keine systematische Entwicklung und Evaluation entsprechender Unterrichtsvorhaben vor. Im Rahmen eines kooperativen Explorationsprojektes wurden entsprechende Versuche unternommen, einen digital gestützten Grundschulsportunterricht zu planen, durchzuführen und zu reflektieren. Dieser Beitrag setzt sich mit der Reflexion der Unterrichtseinheiten vor dem Hintergrund einer pädagogischen Beschäftigung mit den Begriffen Innovation, Mobilität und Digitalität auseinander und fragt in diesem Zusammenhang nach Möglichkeiten der Inszenierung eines mediengestützten und medienbildenden Sportunterrichts der Grundschule.

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