QR Challenge: Your Digital Footprint

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. What is your digital footprint? Scan the footprints around the room to find out what information about you is tracked and stored in your digital footprint.	Your digital footprint is the trail or history left behind by your interactions with digital environment.
2. The websites you visit	the websites you visit
3. What time of day you interact in a digital environment	the time of day
4. The search and key words you use	search words
5. Your location while browsing	your location while browsing
6. What you say	what you say
7. What you search for	what you search for
8. What is said about you	what is said about you
9. What you say in your email, texts, social media posts	what you say
10. What you "like" or "share" on social media and online	what you like
11. How much money you spend	how much money you spend
12. How old you are	how old you are
13. Where you live	where you live
14. If you were mentioned or quoted in a news story or blog post.	blogs
15. Pictures of you	images

 

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