Strategies for Asynchronous and Synchronous Instruction in Elementary Grades: Session #3 of the CRWP 2020-21 Webinar Series

In our webinar on November 17, 2020, North Branch Elementary School teacher — and one of CRWP’s newest teacher consultants — Lyndsay Young discusses strategies you can use with your kids for both whole class, real time teaching as well as solo, any time learning opportunities. A master of active learning strategies with technology, Lynsday discusses her use of engaging teaching tools such as Nearpod, PearDeck, Padlet, Conceptboard, and Flipgrid.

Throughout the session, Young discusses her reasoning for choosing PearDeck, which includes both ease of use for her students and the ways in which this tool can be flexible in a variety of settings, from elementary teaching all the way to college level instruction. PearDeck is an add-on for Google Slides that allows you to create live interactive activities that can be used for formative assessment, to prompt discussion, to invite written response, and provide even more live engagement tools. Moreover, she talked about how to make PearDeck as a “student paced,” asynchronous lesson for students who are absent from the live lessons.

Within PearDeck, Lyndsay integrates a number of other tools to streamline student work and activities in one place. Padlet, a collaborative space for brainstorming and curating resources can be integrated easily. In a similar manner, Conceptboard (an interactive whiteboard that is also a Chrome extension) allows you to have activities and engagement works with sticky notes and jigsawing. Young also discusses how to use Flipgrid for asynchronous activities to continue student learning and interaction.

PearDeck — in combination with these other great tools — might be the game changer you are looking for!

Here are some of the resources shared during Lyndsay’s presentation: