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1. Arrange students into groups. Each group needs at least ONE person who has a mobile device.
2. If their phone camera doesn't automatically detect and decode QR codes, ask students to
4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.
1. Give each group a clipboard and a piece of paper so they can write down the decoded questions and their answers to them.
2. Explain to the students that the codes are hidden around the school. Each team will get ONE point for each question they correctly decode and copy down onto their sheet, and a further TWO points if they can then provide the correct answer and write this down underneath the question.
3. Away they go! The winner is the first team to return with the most correct answers in the time available. This could be within a lesson, or during a lunchbreak, or even over several days!
4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.
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| 1. What is a QR code? | A QR code stands for Quick Response code. It works like a bar code but can hold a great deal more information. Instead of being a series of bars, it’s a data matrix which can hold up to 7,089 numeric characters or up to 4,296 alphanumeric characters. This makes them much more flexible than standard bar codes. | 2. What are QR codes used for? | QR codes are used for a variety of purposes. They can be used to provide links to websites and provide an easy way for people to go to a website without typing in the address. They can also be used to provide telephone numbers, email addresses and other useful contact information. A QR code can also hold control information, otherwise known as “actions”, such as dialing a phone, sending an instant message or tweet, updating status on social networks. There are a lot of different possibilities with these codes. | 3. How are QR codes read? | QR codes are “scanned” by mobile devices such as smart phones using their built-in cameras and then interpreted by software. Depending upon what type of device you’re using, there are different QR code scanners and readers available. They range from simple ones that will allow you to read directly from your camera to more complex scanners that can read codes from webpages, photos you’ve already taken and so forth. There are different readers for different devices, so if you have an Android phone, for instance, you’ll need a different reader than you would for an iPhone. | 4. How exactly can QR codes be used in the field of education? | Scavenger hunts are one way to integrate QR codes into the classroom. Children (and even adults) love scavenger hunts, and by using QR codes on the hunt they also learn while hunting. Clues can be placed throughout the classroom or throughout the school with QR codes on them. Students need to scan the code in order to access the information they desire including the next clue. QR code scavenger hunts are great to use in libraries to have kids use a variety of resources that are available within the library in addition to the codes. | 5. What are some other ways of using QR codes in the classroom? | QR codes can be used to replace flash cards. By scanning the QR code instead of having information on a flash card, you can access the information that you need with your phone instead of the card. This is a great way to save on paper. QR codes can be used to assign homework. Teachers can embed assignment information into a QR code which then becomes accessible to all students. By simply scanning the code, the kids would have all the homework information that they need. How about important forms being embedded in QR codes? If a student needs the particular form, they merely need to scan the code and they have the form. Another suggestion is to put QR codes on student folders. Teachers can enter feedback for the student into their QR code, and the students can access the code at any time. QR codes could quickly provide response information from polls. The teacher asks the students a question with several answer options. The students scan the code and the teacher quickly knows how the students responded. |
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