I created a Pear Deck to use with during math. I love the idea of adding the formative assessment questions!! I used a power point presentation that I already had, added some multiple choice slides and now can quickly add 'quick questions' to assess how the students are doing on telling time.
In playing with it a bit more I would like to add slides that are interactive so I don't have to do it on the spot. I had to watch videos on how to do that.
Telling Time Pear Deck
I can see how using Pear Deck presentations with students would boost their engagement in what we are doing. They would certainly be held accountable, yet in a personal way. They would all have to answer and I could tell who was having trouble with the concept. If I am careful on picking multiple choices then I think I would also be able to identify the problems students are having. I work with younger students so yes/no, true/false and multiple choice seem the easiest to use. I think the slide tools could be interesting to gauge how they are feeling about their performance.
I also like how it is very easy to login with our Google accounts and easy to share. This would be very useful for my whole team to use & share Pear Decks.
Pear Deck seems like the replacement for classroom response systems - you can gather a lot of data on student performance in real time. I like your idea of sharing Pear Decks with your team. It can be overwhelming to try to update so many things all at once (one reason this is a summer class!), but sharing helps keep things manageable.
ReplyDeleteFor some reason I can't view your Pear Deck - it says the session has ended. Can you check the settings on it so I can try it out, or at least the projector view? Thanks!
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DeleteI think the link will work now. I followed the directions from the video you sent. Thanks for your help!
DeletePear Deck was fun to play around with. I agree--it felt very easy and accessible!
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