QR Challenge: GCSE ICT

Created using the ClassTools QR Treasure Hunt Generator

Teacher Notes

A. Prior to the lesson:

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

• Download a QR reader (e.g. I-Nigma | NeoReader | Kaywa) onto their mobile devices
• Bring these devices into the lesson.

3. Print out the QR codes.

4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.

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B. The lesson:

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!

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C. TIPS / OTHER IDEAS

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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Questions / Answers (teacher reference)

Question	Answer
1. Name the 4 laws you need to know
2. Name 4 threats to data
3. Name 3 wireless methods of connection
4. Name 3 wired methods of connection
5. Explain what a router is needed for
6. What is GPS?
7. Give 3 uses of GPS?
8. Give an advantage and a disadvantage of geotagging
9. How can you protect yourself or your business from falling for a phishing scam?
10. How can you protect yourself or your business from a getting a virus or other malware?
11. How can you protect yourself or your business from getting hacked?
12. If your business burns to the ground, you will lose all the data stored there. But a good business owner will have created what so s/he can restore the data?
13. What type of online site allows anyone to add and edit content?
14. What type of online site allows people to save, tag and share hyperlinks?
15. Name 3 methods for telling that a website is secure?
16. Explain encryption.
17. WPA and WEP are forms of what?
18. Give 3 ways you can stop unwanted people accessing your network
19. Name 3 health and safety risks associated with overuse of digital devices.
20. Explain why a wired network is better for playing online games.
21. Explain why streaming HD films may cause buffering.
22. Explain why the school network slows down when all the IT rooms are logging off at the same time.
23. School sends lots of texts and emails home. Why do they also still send printed letters?
24. Which law would you be prosecuted under if you were found to have created a virus?
25. How many days do you have to return an item you have ordered online if you change your mind?
26. People have been prosecuted for the things they have tweeted. Explain how to be a responsible user of social media.
27. What are the biggest online risks for people under 16?
28. What is the biggest online risk for adults?
29. What considerations do you need to take when travelling abroad with digital devices?

 

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