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Article Category: Education

Author Name: Johannes Ahrenfelt

If you are looking to use mobile phones in the classroom, or even for outdoor learning then QR codes could assist. QR stands for 'Quick Response' as the developer Denso-Wave intended to have the code decoded quickly. You do not need to know any coding because there are many QR Code Generators available online which will do the hard work for you – simply do a quick search and pick one. Mobile Barcodes, for example, provides a good tool on their website. You need a mobile phone that has a camera + software that can decode QR codes (most barcode apps do a pretty good job) for example i-nigma or Neo-Reader.

Most QR Generators allows you to produce or 'hide' a range of different resources within the QR images, for example:

• website url
• vCard
• 100 character text message
• Phone number
• SMS
• Email address

How could it be used to enhance learning?

Even if his technology is still fairly new way to stimulate learning in school, there are already many good examples online of how to use it at a basic level in your lessons. I hope that the following examples will give you a a great number of exciting ways of using QR Codes with your pupils.

Here follows a number of ideas of how this easy-to-use technology can be used to raise achievement and student participation in your school.

The Hook

Before students enter your room there tends to be a few minutes when they wait patiently (or not so...) outside. Why not get them involved in their learning even before the lesson begins. Access one of the QR Code Generator sites that you found from your search earlier} and create an image which holds a link to a Youtube video or image, text or cryptic comment that relate directly to what they will be taught in the lesson.

Interactive Presentations

QR Readers have become tremendously sophisticated so students can actually scan images from the back of the room. Accordingly students' presentations and your expositions can now be more imaginative than ever. For example, if you are teaching a group of students and you want them to become more actively involved in your presentation then try inserting QR images on particular slides containing URLs to further reading or a documentary you want them to see on Archive.org. Also, if you get used to inserting a 'Think about this...' image in the bottom right-hand corner of a slide which takes students to a question you want them to answer, then this will help generate dialogue and as well as allowing them thinking time.

New Entries

New students often ask how to find a building or what teacher is in which room? QR-Codes to the rescue! Mount a code outside all classrooms which contains a message which provide the following information:

• The name of the building
• Room number
• Name of teachers

Getting Students to Participate

Asking students to use their mobile phones to get involved in the lesson is likely to be popular for some time. Here follows a few examples of how you can get students to get involved both during but also after the lesson has finished.

• Discussion: provide a deep link to a specific forum on the Virtual Learning Environment where they hold a discussion around the key question of the lesson. Homework could be linked to this and participation could be followed up at the beginning of the next lesson.
• QR Challenge: divide the class into a number of teams and get each one to create questions that the opposing teams have to complete
• QR Debate: similar to the one above but getgroups from different sets to have a running debate on a key topic over a e.g. half-term. Add QR images outside each others' classrooms.

Engaging Worksheets

These may not actually exist but you can make your current worksheets more useful and creative by including QR images to support their learning.

Number 1: Say that your Year 6 pupils are investigating the Black Death in Suffolk, you can develop the traditional task by adding QR images that hides a set of statements or link to video clip that shows a possible answer to the question.

Number 2: Why not link a current task to a set of MP3 files, for example tracks on Spotify which students have to answer a question, or see a talk on TED.com that will enable them to explain the question in a more sophisticated way?

Idea 3: If students are exploring a painting, grid or map, try adding QR codes next to particular elements which links to opportunities for further reading, Vimeo video that explains the art work or show a clip about one of the locations on the map.

The suggestions covered here only give you a starting-point to using QR-Codes in in your school, can you think of ways of using QR-Codes with your classes?

About the Author: Johannes Ahrenfelt is a Learning, Teaching and ICT consultant. Read more about innovative teaching ideas on EatSleepTeach.com and on using ICT to enhance learning

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