Peardeck
In One Sentence
What's the Point?
Peardeck
provides teachers with individual feedback from each student as they engage with course content.
allows every student to take an active role in a given lesson.
promotes student voice as they respond and share through a wide variety of interactive activities including writing, drawing, polls, and social emotional surveys.
How is it Used by Teachers?
How is it Used by Students?
Teachers can:
Enhance synchronous learning experiences by making slide presentations interactive.
Engage students in new content.
Gather information about their social emotional status.
Formatively assess at the beginning of class (bell ringers), during the class (checks for understanding), or at the end of class (exit tickets).
Create individual assignments for asynchronous learning experiences.
Create an interactive vocabulary lesson using the Flashcard Factory (an extension of Pear Deck).
Ensure student participation.
Combine Pear Deck with other apps such as Flipgrid, Padlet, Newsela, etc. to further engage students.
Utilize the teacher dashboard to reflect on student progress, share takeaways with students, and provide feedback.
Students can:
Become active participants in a lesson.
Compare and contrast their ideas with peers.
Evaluate peer thinking in an anonymous setting.
Demonstrate their own thinking in a variety of ways.
Give anonymous peer feedback.
Access learning tools and resources to support their learning.
Collaborate through sharing and discussing responses during a presentation.
Provide feedback to the teacher about the overall effectiveness of the lesson.
Checklists
Teachers can use polling features and open-ended questions to assess student understanding during a live lesson in teacher-paced mode.
Teachers can also give students a slidedek in student-paced mode at the end of a lesson to assess retention.
Teachers can use interactive questioning feature to make lessons more engaging.
Teachers can use other apps (such as Padlet and Flipgrid) with Pear Deck to enhance the student experience.
Social-emotional Pear Deck slides can allow students to share their feelings and assess their emotional well-being at the beginning or end of a lesson.
Students can shout-out and share supportive ideas to one another by answering questions on Pear Deck.