So this is how I've been working smarter with the help of qr codes. One day last summer I read all 135 math worksheets for the year to my phone. I uploaded each to Sound Cloud and filed under the lesson number. Last year I'd email 5 links for the week to my struggling readers and they'd listen to the directions while completing their homework. It worked well but mostly because one particular student (I call him Tornado and if you are/were a teacher you know who I mean) took the job of finding the link very serious and it was the perfect outlet for his energy.
But my kiddos this year aren't quite as driven and I'd love to not have to remember to cut and paste those web links every week. Enter qr codes. This year each week as I am preparing my lesson plans, I grab the links, drop them in a qr creator and paste the link on my lesson folder. Next year, the qr code that links to the audio lesson will be ready to go for every lesson. My struggling readers take the ipod to the lesson folder, snap a pic of the code and the ultra wordy math lesson is read to them.
I also plan on using qr codes for game directions, sentence dictation, artist statements, book reports, lesson review and sight word bingo.
How does this fit with online learning? Using a qr code format is much more basic than logging a 6 year old into Blackboard. The next time I send home extra practice games, I can just send qr codes. All of my students have access to a Smartphone so I don't even need to send the technology home. If you haven't tried qr codes you should. How will you use them with your learners? Could it link to a google form that asks questions about a work setting?
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