What is Pear Deck?
What is Pear Deck?
Pear Deck is a web-based technology that allows teachers to incorporate technology into their daily lessons. Integrating Pear Deck into the curriculum helps keep students engaged and interested in the lessons.
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Pear Deck for Collaboration
Pear Deck for Collaboration
Educators
Educators can collaborate using the Share the Pear program.
Students
Students can collaborate to illustrate and define terms using the Flashcard Factory.
How Educators can Facilitate Collaboration with Pear Deck
How Educators can Facilitate Collaboration with Pear Deck
With Pear Deck, educators can facilitate student collaboration by encouraging and promoting the use of Pear Deck's Flashcard Factory.
Educators can use the ideas of "CrossActionSpaces" (Jahnke, 2016), with Pear Deck by engaging the students in collaborative activities during instructional daily lessons. "In CrossActionSpaces, learning is not only dependent on traditional human action and interaction; learners perform several actions and interactions across existing spaces and also create new spaces for communication. Humans use the traditional rooms for asking questions, sharing information and learning from others, but they also use off- and online channels and web-enabled technology to engage with the world around them" (Jahnke, 2016). Students work together within the Pear Deck application but can also access other forms of online information simultaneously to share and contribute to the overall learning experience.
How Students can Collaborate with Pear Deck
How Students can Collaborate with Pear Deck
When students engage in Pear Deck, they can be exposed to Pear Deck's Flashcard Factory. "Flashcard Factory was designed to transform the way students engage with vocabulary. When you play Flashcard Factory students pair up and work together to create dynamic and engaging flashcards. Students collaborate to illustrate and define terms, making learning vocab an active and social experience!" (Pear Deck, 2020).
When students engage with Flashcard Factory while using Pear Deck, they are being intentional in their learning, they are cooperating with their peers, they are being active by manipulating ideas within the learning goal, they are reflecting about the ideas of their peers, and they are being authentic by creating real-world connections (Howland, et al. 2012).
Advantages of Pear Deck
Advantages of Pear Deck
Teachers can access a Basic subscription of Pear Deck for free with a few of the premium features
Pear Deck an be purchased by school districts
Pear Deck integrates into multiple learning management systems
Examples: Google Classroom & Microsoft Teams
Pear Deck is user friendly
Pear Deck can be used to support student collaboration
Example: Students can collaborate to build flashcards
Disadvantages of Pear Deck
Disadvantages of Pear Deck
Teachers have to purchase a subscription of Pear Deck to utilize all features of Pear Deck if their school district does not purchase Pear Deck
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