So the big question is “What is a QR code and how does it work”
First you need a QR Code reader on your iPhone or Android. After trying a few on my Samsung I settled on Barcode Scanner as it seemed to be the easiest to lock onto the image and therefore read the code quickly and accurately.
QR Codes are certainly popping up everywhere, especially in advertising and promotion and they represent a compact and engaging way of making a large amount of information available in a small space.
Just look at how Lego chose to engage their customers –
I used qrcode-monkey.com to make this cool QR Code that provides a link to my Google+ site, great for my personal learning network.
Another one of many QR generating sites is aptly names the-qrcode-generator.com or scan the code below to find another great classroom resource. I followed the instructions to create a QR Code using a Google Docs spreadsheet.
Scan the code below to listen to a recorded message created with a Voice to QR Code generator that also has a text to speech facility. This would be great for a treasure hunt where students recorded their own voice, unfortunately the voice recorder did not work for me.
H.O.T. Question It.
Year 3 – 4
- Explore and use a range of digital systems with peripheral devices for different purposes, and transmit different types of data (ACTDIK007)
- Recognise different types of data and explore how the same data can be represented in different ways (ACTDIK008)
Year 5 – 6
- Acquire, store and validate different types of data and use a range of commonly available software to interpret and visualise data in context to create information(ACTDIP016)
Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority [ACARA] (2014). Digital Technologies: Foundation to Year 10 curriculum. Retrieved from http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/technologies/digital-technologies/Curriculum/F-10
H.O.T. Topics for the Australian Curriculum 