Fun with QR Coding

If you don’t know what QR (or Quick Response) Codes are, they are small black and white and sometimes colored squares with smaller squares inside. These squares contain coding for URLs, text and more. If they were in textbooks, for example, you and your students could decipher the codes with smart phones, iPod Touch or desktop computers to find links that would enhance textbook information by leading to additional text info, videos, images, etc. They’d be great for using in student reports or projects, for scavenger hunts, for identifying information in science fairs, art projects, and so much more. Your students will enjoy figuring them out and also creating their own. For ideas how to use them in the classroom and for homework, see Steven W. Anderson’s, “QR Huh? What the Heck Are QR Codes?” The QR Code below asks, “Can you read me?”