QR Challenge: language and power

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. Broadly speaking, advertisers persuade their audience to adopt attitudes to?	lifestyle, products and services.
2. Give three examples of the type of qualifiers advertisers use	new, improved, proven.
3. Special ________ can be used (technical, scientific or pseudo-scientific) may be used for appropriate products	registers.
4. In 2000, this word was a mild term of disapproval amongst young people	pants.
5. Advertisers sometimes use a narrative through ?	dialogue.
6. That held by politicians, the police and those working in the law courts	Political.
7. Those who hold power as a result of their occupation or role, such as teachers and employers	Personal.
8. Those who hold power as a result of social variables such as class, gender and age. Typically (though not exclusively) white, middle-class men hold positions of power	Social Group.
9. Power, when it is used by individuals or groups to maintain and enforce authority is called?	instrumental.
10. Power, when it is used to influence and persuade others, is called?	influential.

 

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