QR Challenge: Positive evaluation

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. Positive evaluation	However advances in neuroscience have allowed researchers to objectively measure emotional experience of happiness. Researchers have tracked the basal ganglia area of the brain and found that it becomes activated when experiencing positive emotions than negative emotions
2. Positive evaluation	A fundamental question in positive psychology is whether we can define and measure happiness scientifically. This can be challenging as everyone has a different idea on what creates, is, makes happiness and what it means to them. This shows that happiness is a subjective state of mind and therefore is not scientific.
3. Positive evaluation	The positive psychology approach has been criticised for ignoring individual differences and cultural differences as they take a ‘one size fits all approach’.
4. Positive evaluation	Hickinbottom suggests that approach is ethnocentric as the majority of positive psychology research has been conducted on western cultures which are centred around fulfilment and personal autonomy. Hickinbottom believes that American culture is focused around positive emotions and attitudes and negative emotions are considered to be avoided.
5. Positive evaluation	Norem highlights that some people are ‘defensive pessimists’ who deal with situations by looking at the negatives and anything that could go wrong with a situation. She argues that this is actually a good thing as they are anticipating all realistic possibilities and therefore work harder to avoid them - this showing that only focusing on positive aspects can actually damage performance

 

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