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.
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| 1. What is simulacra? | The belief that there is no such thing as originality | 2. Who argues that culture is a tool through which the dominant ideology is taught?2 | Marxist critics2 | 3. What is cultural implosion?3 | The belief that the boundaries between high & popular culture have dissolved3 | 4. Explain commodity fetishism4 | The idea that we learn to desire materialistic things4 | 5. What would a Marxist critic say in response to the assertion that Capitalism delivers ideas of freedom and democracy?5 | That these ideas are a myth5 | 6. Who would argue that in today's society, the consumer uses culture as a mechanism to express themselves and to play with meanings6 | PM6 |
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