QR Challenge: Digital Citizenship

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. Digital	using or characterized by computer technology
2. Netiquette	rules about the proper and polite way to communicate with other people when you are using the Internet
3. Blog	a Web site that contains online personal reflections, comments, and often hyperlinks provided by the writer
4. Wiki	a Web site that allows visitors to make changes, contributions, or corrections
5. (Hash)tag	a word or phrase preceded by the symbol # that classifies or categorizes the accompanying text
6. Social Media	forms of electronic through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content
7. Phishing	a scam by which an e-mail user is duped into revealing personal or confidential information which the scammer can use illicitly
8. Feeds	To distribute to a larger audience or group of receivers by way of a network.
9. Podcast	Audio digital recording as a program
10. Bookmark	to identify and store a website so that one can return to it easily
11. Copyright	The legal right granted to an author, composer, playwright, publisher, or distributor to exclusive publication, production,sale, or distribution of a literary, musical, dramatic, or artistic work.
12. Citizenship	the character of an individual viewed as a member of society
13. Vodcast	Video digital recording as a program
14. Vlog	a blog that contains video material
15. Cyberbullying	online harassment, which can be in the form of flames, comments made in chat rooms, the sending of offensive or cruel e-mail, or even harassing others by posting on blogs, Web pages or social networking sites.
16. IdentityTheft	crimewherebycriminalsimpersonateindividuals,usuallyfor financialgain.Ifathiefisabletoaccessyourpersonalinformation,s/hecan useittocommitfraudinyourname
17. Posting	Topublishamessageinanonlineforumornewsgroup
18. Avatar	Avirtual,visualrepresentationofapersonorplayer
19. Links	Textoragraphicthattakesyoutoanotherpage

 

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