Pear Deck

This module assumes you know and can do the following:

Competency

Shift from teacher-led instruction to student-centered learning for the purposes of meeting individual needs and fostering engagement and motivation. (Aurora Institute)
Provide resources for students to learn content and enable them to work independently and/or in cooperative groups. (Aurora Institute)
Create pedagogical approaches and learning experiences that promote content-based problem solving and online collaboration. (Aurora Institute)

Goals of Learning

Learning Outcomes

Differentiate between planning for various modes of engagement, representation, and expression, with a focus on engagement.
Provide choice and autonomy in order to promote expectations and beliefs that optimize motivation.
Design for engagement in both synchronous and asynchronous learning experiences.
Design intra/interpersonal routines to foster behaviors for engagement.

What I will DO in this module:

Explore how Pear Deck works for both synchronous and asynchronous teaching and learning
Create a sample activity to create engagement within a lesson
Understand how to access the data to use to determine needs of students
Revise an existing lesson to add layers of engagement

Launch

Process the following:

Questions to think about....

How can I create opportunities for engagement while trying to balance students in online and in person environments?
How can I adapt a lesson to meet needs of students online while meeting needs of students in F2F?
Where in one of my future lessons could I insert more opportunities for engagement?
How do I use the data collected to make necessary changes to the learning and teaching?

Learn

Recording of Session

Recording from 8/23/20

101: Introduction to Pear Deck for Google Slides (Shared)

Pear Deck Session Materials

Here's the deck used to present.
Additionally, here is linked information about the Pear Deck Power-Up - there were a few questions about this during the Q&A. This browser extension helps gifs, videos, and animations to work properly in a Pear Deck presentation.
Here's a link to the Help Videos page, with a lot of helpful short, skill specific tutorials.
Here's a link to the templates landing page, which is a great way for new Pear Deck users to get started. Here's more information about the new Related Arts + PE templates as well!

Reflect

Talk About Your Ideas

Discussion Forum

Share your answers, questions, and thoughts about Pear Deck in the Google Group. This discussion is labeled Pear Deck.

Challenge

Use Pear Deck

Make a very simple and easy Pear Deck slide to use in one of your upcoming lessons.

Don't go crazy! Start small.

Please share what you use and how it works in the Google Group place so we can learn from you.

AND

Practice your setup with the screens! Please share how you organize your screens to be successful as an educator! Share screenshots and/or text in the Google group

Resources

Newsela Daily Deck

The Daily Decks combine Newsela’s curated news articles with Pear Deck’s unique student engagement platform. When sharing with students, they will read the Newsela article directly in the Pear Deck session eliminating the need to direct students to a new tab or type in a URL.

The Decks are organized into a simple sequence of activities. To begin, select a topic from the gallery above. Note that you and your students will need to create a free Newsela account to set text levels and use the annotation features.