Technology Integration Form – PRESENTATION

GENERAL INFORMATION
Selected Technology/Resource Name: Age/Grade Level: Technology/Resource Type:
Pear Deck Grade 4-12 Application Software Device Website
Source: (Web address, company name, etc.)

https://www.peardeck.com/
Associated Learning Standard(s): The resource may be generally applicable, if so, simply state that. List any ISTE-S standards that
seem to naturally align with the selected resource.
ISTE- Educators: Designer
ISTE- Students: Digital Citizen and Innovative Designer

RESOURCE DESCRIPTION
Give a brief description of the technology/resource.

With Pear Deck, each student in your class will connect to your presentation on
any device, answer your interactive questions, and learn from their peer while
closely engaged! Pear Deck works like any slide presentation program you’re
used to. In fact, you can even import your old PowerPoints, Google Slides, and
PDFs to turn them into powerful interactive Pear Decks right from your Google
Drive.

INTEGRATION IDEA - PRESENTATION

How might you use this resource in a lesson plan to promote students’ presentation/speaking/communication skills?

I might use this tool to present PowerPoints. I will have the presentations
available on Google Classroom, so the student can refer to it at any time. I hope
to use presentations like this to help the visual learner. In addition, students that
are absent will be able to hear a recording that goes along with the presentation,
so they can listen to the lecture.
 Value-Added Rating Scale

3 2 1

The integration idea described: The integration idea described: The integration idea described:

• aligns to content standards • aligns to content standards • aligns to content standards

• transforms a lesson in a way that would • enhances a lesson; likely to • serves as a nice supplement to a lesson
be impossible or very difficult without it; increase student engagement and but wouldn’t necessarily play a critical
very likely to increase student engagement support mastery of the concept(s) role within the lesson
and contribute to mastery of the
• will most likely be used by the • will most likely be used by the teacher
concept(s)
students directly during a lesson (e.g., a demonstration)
• optimal in a student-centered
environment where students are active
and engaged in learning content

VALUE-ADDED EXPLANATION
 Based on the “value-added rating scale” above, how would you rate the technology integration you described, using the
selected resource?
 Explain your rating based on the rubric indicators.

Based on the “value-added rating scale”, I would rate this website a 2. I don’t like
that you must pay for it eventually since there is only a free-trial. Though I do
believe it will enhance the lesson to increase student engagement, because if
they didn’t get what I said in class- they will have another opportunity to listen to
the presentation on their own.

This template has been adapted from the following resources:

Christie, A., (2007). Dr. Alice Christie’s 6C Model for Evaluating Apps. Retrieved from
http://www.kathyschrock.net/uploads/3/9/2/2/392267/evalipad_content.pdf
ISTE, (2012). iste.nets•s Advancing Digital Age Learning. Retrieved from
http://www.iste.org/docs/pdfs/nets-s-standards.pdf?sfvrsn=2.
LearnZillion, Inc. (July 2014). TeachFest Guide | Mathematics. Retrieved from http://ctcorestandards.org/wp-
content/uploads/2014/08/Math_TeachFest_SA_Guidebook.pdf.
Schrock, K., (2011-14). Critical Evaluation of a Content-Based IPAD/IPOD APP. Retrieved from
http://alicechristie.org/6C/6C.pdf.