Our discussion began with students predicting what these funny boxes were, and discovering from each other that they actually hold interesting information.
The students formed small groups and rotated around the room, each reading the 'What am I?' questions and discussing which organ of the human body they thought it the clues were related to. Once everyone had predicted their answers, the group scanned the codes using a free app called scan to reveal the true answer. The students were enlivened by this experienced and started suggesting other ways in which we could use QR Codes in our learning.
The students decided that they would create their own questions and QR Codes (after a very brief explanation on how to do this), to teach each other about the skeleton. As we were already in the middle of building our own creative diagram of the human body, some groups thought it would be a good idea to use QR Codes to label their parts and organs instead of the more traditional labels that we see everyday.
This little concept sparked many of the students to go home and teach their parents about QR Codes and discuss the many possibilities for their existence. Some students began spotting and collecting QR Codes as they came across them in Newsletters, brochures or magazines.
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