QR Codes – How Can Teachers/Trainers Use Them?

Below is a great little summary of what QR (Quick Response) codes are and how a teacher can use them in the class. Although our example teacher below is mainly focused on Primary School teaching, the activities and suggestions she has are great ideas for ESL classes (for both children and adults). QR codes were designed in 1994 by the Toyota (Ferré, 2017) and were mainly envisaged to contain data to point to a website or a tracker for stock taking and distribution. They have a wide variety of uses in ESL/EFL classes as a teaching or learning technology. A teacher could record or share audio, video, images, PPoint files, PDFs, and share links to suggested research locations. Other uses include using them to set up interactive learning games and activities in the classroom, setting homework, providing answers and providing students access to reviews and other study projects. You can download a QR scanner as an app for most phones although the latest phones have technology to pick up a barcode straight from camera-mode and then convert the code to the relevant web-link.

References

Ferré, M. (2017). QR Codes 101 – That Teacher Life Ep 43. Pocketful of Primary. Retrieved from  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4dnthyMQzw 

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