Have your seen Chrome's latest update! You may now create QR codes within the omnibox! This video is a tutorial with integration ideas at FlippedTechCoaching.com and in the description below.
HERE ARE 20 IDEAS FOR USING QR CODES IN THE CLASSROOM:
1) Self-publishing: Allow students to publish and share their work by creating QR Codes. The codes may link to slide-decks, movies, published writing, artwork and more!
2) Share Thinking: Allow students to share their thoughts, questions, and connections by posting QR codes along with published work. For example, if students display their artwork they may share their artist statement via QR code! Or, they may posts QR codes linking to audio comments, questions and connections.
3) Access Read Alouds: Generate QR codes linking to students, staff, and authors sharing read alouds.
4) Resource lists: Create a QR code for students to place in their folders or agendas so they may quickly access important sites and documents.Or, have students generate QR codes to resources they used during research projects.
5) Revisiting Anchor Charts: Display QR codes showcasing important anchor charts students may need to revisit throughout the year.
6) Book Reviews: Place QR codes on books or display in the classroom or school Library. The codes may provide quick access to student and staff book reviews and recommendations.
7) Displaying Exemplars: Share examples of different exemplars for students to explore prior to starting a project. Or, after projects have been completed.
8) Scavenger Hunts: Post QR codes around the building for students to participate in a scavenger hunt!
9) News: Create a bulletin board with QR codes providing quick access to important school information and news updates.
10) Tutorials: Empower students by allowing them to create their own tutorials for other students to reference via QR codes. And, of course teachers may share their tutorials too!
11) Quick Access to Assignment: Generate QR codes students students may quickly access assignments.
12) Pre-filled Forms: Use QR codes to link to Forms such as surveys, exit tickets and digital hall-passes.
13) Presentations: Add the QR code onto your presentation slide so students and staff may quickly access your resource.
14) Differentiate Instruction: Provide different QR codes for different flexible groups to access assignments, games and resources.
15) Self-correcting stations: Allow students to self-correct by creating solutions and sharing via QR codes.
16) Double-dose of Directions: Do your students often forget the directions to the assignments? Use QR codes to add audio or video directions to worksheets and rotation stations!
17) Portfolios- Students may quickly generate QR codes to add completed work to their portfolios. Students may take photographs and videos of experiments, posters, and other non-digital activities and upload the files to their Drive. Now, they may create the QR codes!
18) Digital Contact Card: Share a digital contact card with students and parents by printing out QR codes with links to your contact information.
19) Newsletters/Yearbooks- Add QR codes to the hardcopies of your newsletters or yearbooks to quickly access videos and presentations you wish to share.
20) Clever Badges- Ok. This has nothing to do with Google Chrome. But I had to mention how the Clever app makes it so easy for even our youngest learners to login to their devices and different websites simply by using QR codes.
