QR+Codes

Disclaimer: i chose to attend this session because i was skeptical about how useful QR codes would be in the classroom.

Most of the ideas being shared seem to be using QR codes just for the sake of using QR codes. There seem to be alternate ways to accomplish the same goal that are more straight forward. Example: handing the students a piece of paper with the information on it. . . but maybe I am being too negative. Here are the best ideas I gathered from this presentation.

Ideas: 1. Adding QR codes to the backs of books to provide additional information (like the book trailers Karen has had her students create in the MS library). A follow-up idea for this would be to make a sheet of similar books, for example: "mysteries", and then a student looking for one of those types of books can scan the QR code of all the books in that category which seem interesting. Then again, while an index of this nature may be a good idea, maybe all the video should be linked on the webpage and organized by categories instead of printing QR codes on a piece of paper. 2. adding QR codes inside of books. For examples, taking a children's book and adding QR codes which can take you to videos about the content on the page. Turn a "regular" book into an interactive one. 3. Scan it, solve it, show it - students get a worksheet. On the worksheet there is a QR code which links to a video with a critical thinking rich problem. Using a video that explains a rich problem for the students to solve sounds like a good idea. . . But I'm not sure why students need to access it using a QR code instead of accessing a link in an LMS like Blackboard.

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