Digitalization processes: constructive and destructive impact on physical education

the topic relevance is due to the pervasive nature of digitalization processes that have a complex and ambiguous impact on all spheres of public life, including physical education. The purpose of the study is to systematize the constructive and destructive factors of the impact of digital technologies on physical education. The study objectives include: analysis of theoretical approaches to studying the impact of digitalization in the field of physical education; identification of the main areas of digitalization in the field of physical education; determination of constructive and negative aspects of the use of digital technologies by a modern person from the standpoint of healthy physical activity. The research methodology is based on a systematic approach and includes the methods of the general scientific group (analysis, synthesis, generalization, systematization), as well as a number of special methods: historiographical analysis of the scientific discourse of the topic under study; the method of expert assessments, as well as the method of statistical analysis. Based on the results, the following conclusions were formulated: the constructive impact of digital technologies on physical education is expressed in the expansion of opportunities for distance learning, the use of immersive simulators at home as part of online physical education classes. Digital technologies also make it possible to significantly expand the independent search for exercises for all types of loads (speed, strength and endurance). Digital technology is also useful as a fitness control of a person's physical activity. At the same time, among the negative consequences of digitalization in the field of physical education, such risks as a sedentary lifestyle and excessive enthusiasm for gamification, which negatively affects the physical condition of the body, were highlighted. Most of today's chronic diseases are associated with a sedentary lifestyle, when people spend more and more time in front of digital device monitors instead of healthy physical activity.

physical education, physical training, digitalization, immersive technologies, healthy lifestyle