QR Challenge: Ethical and legal contraints within the media sector

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. 1. The office that regulates Television and radio, fixed line telecoms and mobiles, plus the airwaves over which wireless devices operate is called what?	Ofcom
2. 2. Storing certain information about people without their permission is illegal. Any records you hold about a person can be accessed by them under the Freedom of Information Act. What Act is this?	Data Protection Act 1998
3. 3. Creative media work such as photograph, a script or a piece of artwork of other people need to be obtained with permission and agreed fee applied. What law is this?	Intellectual Property Law
4. 4. You can be sued for damages if you publish or broadcast things about a person which are untrue and damage their reputation (defame them). What law is?	Libel law
5. 5. The law that protects the rights of the creator of music, sound recordings, images, photograph, films, broadcasts and written work to control use of their material by other people is called what?	Copyright law

 

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