Pear Deck Blog

Helping students gain coping skills, resilience, emotional awareness, and empathy takes regular practice and reinforcement. The good news is, we can practice each day by incorporating questions that promote self-awareness into our regular lessons.

We’re excited to introduce the Pear Deck Power-up, a free Google Chrome extension that enables videos, animations, and GIFs embedded on your slides to play at full resolution on the projector and student devices—exactly the way they should!

Even though many students are digital natives — having grown up in a technological world — educators still lead the way in helping them learn to become good digital citizens. Educator Marshall Beyer discusses how to make digital citizenship a part of classroom culture.

Introducing Pear Deck Teaching Truths, a set of principles that we believe in and have designed to guide you in building positive school culture where teachers can create powerful learning moments for every student, every day.

Flexibility has been the rallying cry for nearly every educator in the face of 2020’s pandemic, and Lynwood Unified School District is no different. One key piece of their flexible approach to remote learning is Pear Deck — which they found adaptable for both synchronous and asynchronous instruction, and which gave them visibility into student needs to further adapt their approach.

By encouraging students to think and act like subject-matter experts and develop skills they will use throughout their lives, you instill a sense of ownership over their learning that goes way beyond the classroom.