Pear Deck!

     Hi everyone! In this post I’d like to write about an interesting, different kind of tool: Pear Deck! It is an interactive presentation tool which is used to engage students in both individual and social learning. With Pear Deck, students become more active and have important contributions to the lesson instead of only listening to the teacher’ speech in a passive mode. The things you should do is that firstly activate the Pear Deck add-on on your Google Slides, then share the code with the students so that they can connect to Pear Deck through their own devices as well. Then yeah, you all are ready!

      Pear Deck actually has two lesson modes: Student-Paced Activity and Instructor-Paced Activity! If you are connected with your students in real time (virtually or face-to-face) choose Instructor-Paced Activity to guide them in the lesson and observe their responses synchronously.

      With the Instructor-Paced activity, Pear Deck helps students to integrate into the class by the activity types such as text responses, multiple choice questions, numerical responses, drawing an answer and dragging an icon. For instance, when the teacher has just finished talking about a subtopic and wants to know the students’ focus and knowledge so the teacher may activate the questions through the Pear Deck and get all the students’ answers . Or you might wonder if they are enjoying the lesson so far, so with this template of Pear Deck, students may drag their button to somewhere between how they are feeling. In that way, every student gets to give responses to questions. After the class is finished, you name the Session in order to review and examine the students answers later on.

By the way, you can always switch back to Student-Paced Activity, if you want to give these slides to your students in order for them to work through their lessons at their own pace, asynchronously.

Here’ s a link for you to find many more templates that you can use in Pear Deck: https://www.peardeck.com/templates

Here’s a tutorial for Pear Deck: https://youtu.be/9PJgsa-fnmA