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Pear Deck is an interactive presentation software that integrates with Google Slides as well as Microsoft Powerpoint and engages students with their learning by providing various digital formative assessments.
First Steps
First Steps
Getting Started:
Getting Started:
100% student engagement with Pear Deck
User Communities and sites:
User Communities and sites:
Facebook: @peardeck, #peardeck
Instagram: @pear_deck, #sharethepear
Twitter: @PearDeck, #PearDeck, #PearDeckChat, #BeInternetAwesome
Technical Specifications:
Technical Specifications:
Pear Deck requires wifi access to these supported browsers: Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Safari.
It works on a:
Computer
Tablet
Smartphone
Student Instructional video: Login, create an account, or use a join code for a temporary session
Learning Management Systems:
Learning Management Systems:
Canvas
Google Classroom
MS Teams
Schoology
Next Steps (Advanced Tips)
Next Steps (Advanced Tips)
Instructional Design
Instructional Design
General Guides to Classroom Use:
General Guides to Classroom Use:
20 ways to use Pear Deck in the classroom
Pear Deck Orchard provides links to Pre-constructed Templates, Newsela Daily decks, Weekly Wonders, and the Pear Deck Teaching blog to offer ideas to cover a myriad of student learners.
Instructional Grouping(s):
Instructional Grouping(s):
Individual or Large group
Student paced mode for individual instruction (Microsoft version)
Co-Teaching with Pear Deck (Premium feature)
Formative and Summative Assessment Options:
Formative and Summative Assessment Options:
Integrating formative assessment via basic & premium features
Lessons and Applications:
Lessons and Applications:
Pear Deck Teaching blog offers a myriad of teaching considerations
Be Internet Awesome - digital citizenship lessons integrated with PearDeck
Pear Deck Template Library available in Google Slides or Microsoft PowerPoint
Management
Management
Student Management:
Student Management:
Pear Deck enables any teacher to create interactive presentations in which students can respond in real-time or asynchronously to a variety of questions.
Manage students responses (Microsoft version)
Giving students individual feedback
Student Engagement:
Student Engagement:
Engage students by choosing various question and response formats built into Pear Deck. While building decks, teachers can choose from these question types:
Basic tools are:
Text & Number: Free response questions have short text, long text, and number capabilities
Choice: Multiple choice questions take the form of yes/no, true/false, or A, B, C, D
Website: Direct link to site within the presentation
Draw: Use the mousepad or a stylus/touch screen to free draw in a blank space or on a grid
Draggable: Using a symbol on a spectrum of information and take the form of agree/disagree or thumbs up/thumbs down
Premium features are:
Teachers have access to a session dashboard & can review previous sessions.
Student takeaways. This conglomeration of students' individual answers allows teachers to analyze student engagement, comprehension, and lesson efficacy.
Gathering data and keeping student interest with Pear Deck
Student Privacy and Security:
Student Privacy and Security:
Pear Deck is committed to student privacy pledge by following four major principles: transparent policies, simple business model, safe & compliant platform, and consumers own their own data.
Differentiation and Adaptation
Differentiation and Adaptation
Diverse Learners:
Diverse Learners:
Social Emotional Learning templates
Adaptive and Assistive Features:
Adaptive and Assistive Features:
Add Audio allows for pre-recording your voice or uploading audio files to slides embedded in the lesson. Students will see an audio included icon that enables students to listen to those clips from their own devices.
Building inclusive classrooms (Pear Deck & Immersive Reader - Premium feature)
Hybrid Strategies
Hybrid Strategies
Use PearDeck in a classroom the same as you would remotely: to collect introductions, to engage students and monitor responses and/or to host presentations. Great for formal work and practice.
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