New Feature! 

Reflect And Review With Pear Deck 

@LisaBerghoff/@MrKimDHS

I love a multi-use tool. Especially when it's design is simple. Take a vegetable peeler for instance. Yes, you can also use it to peel the skin off an apple, but did you know that you can also use it to make chocolate shavings? I also use it to make zucchini ribbons, parmesan shavings, butter pieces for pie dough. 

You get the point.

Pear Deck is one of those multi-use tools for the classroom. Yes, you can present your slides and have students answer some questions. You can also present and then set it to student paced mode to have students complete at their own pace. You can use the student paced mode for homework. You can also embed websites, audio and videos. You can show students exemplars of fantastic responses anonymously. You can create student takeaways for them to use as study guides.

 I really could go on and on.

There is a new feature within Pear Deck premium (thank you District 113 Education Foundation) called Reflect and Review. It answers the question- what next? Once students have completed a Pear Deck session, you can review and give students feedback. 

Here are the steps:

1. End your Pear Deck session. Make sure to name it. You do NOT want a bunch of Pear Deck sessions that are unnamed. I'm definitely speaking from experience. 

2. Click Reflect And Review to access and review student responses and give them feedback. There is a student review link that you can put in Schoology so students can see their answers as well as any feedback you have left them. All of these links are permanent and can always be found in the Pear Deck dashboard so don't worry if you forget to copy it right away.

Once you click Reflect And Review, you are directed to a page where you can choose a particular student and see all of their responses, as well as your original slides. 

3. When students click on the link they will see their responses as well as your feedback. There is also a button they can click that indicates they read the feedback that you wrote for them. 

I was in a class as a student recently and the teacher used this feature. I found it to provide an element of closure that has previously been missing in my Pear Deck experiences. I knew that the instructor saw my responses and she left feedback comments for me so I felt that the loop was closed on that particular lesson. 

Here is a  video from Pear Deck describing this new feature including specific details on how to access it. 

Ready to give it a try?

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