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.
Question | Answer |
1. Where different types of media are merged to be delivered through the same platform | Convergent. | 2. Referencing or using information from other forms of media in a text | Intertextuality. | 3. A pair of terms or concepts that are opposites of one another, used to construct narrative | Binary Opposition. | 4. The media intervenes between reality and it's representation of 'reality' by filtering and changing the content | Mediated Reality. | 5. Statistical characteristics of a population that are used to target texts to a specific audience | Demographic. | 6. A set of ideas, beliefs and values held by the majority of society | Dominant Ideology. | 7. Consumers create or influence the narrative within a text | Interactive Narrative. | 8. The study of signs. Sign = signifier (physical aspects) + signified (mental concept) | Semiology. | 9. Has more than one meaning or connotation | Polysemic. | 10. Two or more genres being merged together | Hybrid. |
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