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Mobile Learning Beyond Your School: use QR-Codes to ensure students progression in their learning

Article Category: Education

Author Name: Johannes Ahrenfelt

Hardly do students have the opportunity to work together as well as they do in Physical Education where team work really is crucial to winning a game. There are ways where this way of thinking and methods of working can be used in other areas by playing Social Learning Games using QR-Codes.

In Social Learning games students have to work in groups to recognize clues to a query and where they receive rewards if successful.  The most enthusiastic social learning games include careful planning so that students take them seriously, otherwise it is likely to fail. Here follows one suggestion:

• A middle ability Year 9 class were informed that they were to work in teams to unravel a problem and that it would be time limited (20 minutes). The conundrum contained keys that were scattered around the school and they would unlock further keys and ultimately the solution to the mystery. Each key was worth 5 points. There were 10 keys in total but the issue could be solved with a minimum of 7 keys. The winning group was the one that had figured out the mystery, runners up was based on the number of points accumulated.

• The issue was to find a solution and to be able to explain and answer the question: Why did Eric leave the classroom?

• The question dealt with how children from the school were effected by World War II. 'Eric' was forced to leave the classroom together with his classmates to enter the bomb shelter when the air raid siren was set off. No one was hurt but Eric kept a personal diary so his reactions to the event could be read by our children.

• Students were given 5 minutes to get into groups of 4. They were then asked to think of a good team name (5 minutes) – this was important for engaging them prior to the task. Each group were given a map of the school with four visible QR Code images displayed. They had to get to one of the images before the other groups as each image contained various levels of difficulty in decoding the message (you could differentiate this by giving them direction to the image you want them to look at first.) and would therefore take them to various areas of the school as the first QR Code would establish which pattern they followed on the map. Groups now had 20 minutes (exact time was set) before they had to be back to the classroom. Failure to arrive before the set time would result in disqualification.

• The four sets of 10 keys (QR Code images stuck onto walls, trees, windows, ceilings, doors etc) contained information from primary evidence: diary extracts, newspaper clippings, and video clips, MP3 tracks as well as messages typed up by their teachers, all of which linked to another location on the map where they could find the next key.

• If groups were particularly sharp they would also realise that each 'pattern' on the map, the directions they walked,  resembled a shape of where Peter walked to i.e. the bomb shelter.

Dynamic Student Books

Textbooks are great and although there are electronic versions available nowadays, most institutions could not afford to equip all their classes with laptops or enough computer suites for these to be effective. Therefore, we need to do our utmost to ensure that Textbooks cater for our students' needs and this can be achieved very easily. Just produce a QR-Code containing a URL to a resource section on your Virtual Learning Environment (e.g. Moodle, Frog or Fronter) which supports pupils' learning, for example by adding learning games, quizzes as well as homework. If you took your time, perhaps in one of the department meetings, then you could also add QR images on individual pages which links to MP3 tracks, videos online, polls, forums, Wiki or other imaginative resources that can make that dull student books just a little bit more inspiring.

Make Revision Fun

Getting some students to revise can be demanding at times and those that do want to spend time on their notes may lose sight what they are doing or just run out of steam. The latter can be approved to revision material and tasks that basically are note-taking activities and can therefore fail to engage even the most hard-working students.

Here are a few ideas that work well to encourage revision and engagement:

• The Revision Board: create a series of Qr-Codes that have links to subject specific Youtube clips learners can download to their iPods to watch at their leisure, then place these images on the Department's The Revision Board in the corridor. You'd be surprised how often students come back to check on updated resources
• Top-Tips: QR-Code images exam techniques, tools for learning and revision tips you think that they would benefit from.
• Revision QR Stickers: provide classes with stickers which contain a RSS Feed to the Department or Team's blog. This ensures that the content is always updated. Stickers are often cheap nowadays, alternatively buy Business Cards with the QR code image on them.

The ideas shared in this post only give you a starting-point to using QR-Codes in education, can you think of other ways of using them?

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