Using QR Coding to Facilitate Student Engagement and Differentiation in the Classroom

Using QR Coding to Facilitate Student Engagement and Differentiation in the Classroom

DR. DERRICK MEARS, PH.D.E D . S . C O O R D I N AT O R , A S S O C I AT E P R O F E S S O R O F C U R R I C U L U M A N D I N S T R U C T I O N / E D U C AT I O N A L T E C H N O LO G YU N I V E R S I T Y O R A R K A N S A S

E M A I L : D M E A R S @ U A R K . E D U

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Who is This Guy! •25th year in education:• 12 years in K-12:

•Kansas City Public School District

•North Kansas City School District

•Science, Physical Education and

Gifted Education

•Chair of Staff Development

Committee, New Teacher Mentor,

Essential Elements of Instruction

Trainer

Who is This Guy! •25th year in education:• 13th year in Higher Education:•Teacher Education, Curriculum and Instruction, Educational Technology

•Currently coordinate the Ed.S. in Curriculum and Instruction

•Teach graduate courses in:

•Educational media, Learning with

Technology in K-12 Schools, Instructional

Design, Curriculum and Assessment

Let’s Get Started!•Find The QR Code Reader on your device:

•iPhone/iPad:

•QR Reader

•Android:

•QR Code Reader

•Windows:

•QR Code Scanner

Who is This Guy! •Presentation Information:

•http://tinyurl.com/QRCoding

http://tinyurl.com/QRCoding

What is a QR Code?•Quick Response Code:•Two dimensional bar code

•Scanned with a mobile tagging application on a device.

•Downloads or accesses based material.

What is a QR Code?•QR Code Components:

•4 squares

•2 alignment lines

•Alternate black and

white

Why Use Them?•Quick Response Code:•High volume of information:

•Can store up to 4,296 alphanumeric or 7.089

numeric characters

•High level of error correction:

•30% of an image can be distorted and it will

still be recognized

Why Use Them?•Easy Access to Content:•Apollo Space Flight•http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/history/apollo/index.html

•

• NASA: The

• Apollo Program

•Reasons:•Gets them to the information you want them to study faster.

•Keeps them away from the information you do not want them to study.

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/history/apollo/index.html

Deconstructing Common Core Standards

Deconstructing Standards Statements:

•Nouns:•Concepts students are to learn related to the

standard.

•Verbs:•Level of thinking or understanding expected

•Adjectives:•Provide the guidance for assessing student learning

related to the standard

•Nouns:• A noun is a person place of thing!

• What is the concept they are asked to learn?

•Verbs:• To run, to walk, to jump to fly-verb that’s what’s happening

• What are they asked to do related to the concept?

•Adjectives:• Words to describe those people places and things It was a hairy

bear, it was a scary bear

• What degree of understanding do you assess?


•History of Space Flight•CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RST.6-8.1•Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of science and technical texts.

• Nouns-evidence, analysis, science, texts.

• Verbs-cite, support

• Adjectives-specific, textual, technical

•3 pieces of specific, textual, technical evidence


•1-piece of specific, textual, technical evidence


How Can I Use Them?•History of Space Flight

•CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RST.6-8.1

•Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of science and technical texts.


We Choose To Go To the Moon• Watch this clip of a speech from

President Kennedy which launched the Space Race!





We Choose To Go To the Moon• Provide a summary of the Apollo missions that lead to

the first landing on the moon.• From the text provide specific textual, technical evidence

relating to:• The number of missions required to get to the moon • What each of the mission accomplished





We Choose To Go To the Moon• Provide a summary of the Apollo missions that lead to

the first landing on the moon.• From the text provide specific textual, technical evidence

relating to:• The number of missions required to get to the moon • What each of the mission accomplished

How Do I Create Lessons?

• QR Code Maker

• For iPad

• QR Code Generator

• For Android

QR Code CreatorWEB-BASED

http://www.qr-code-generator.com/

http://www.qr-code-generator.com/

Using QR Coding to Facilitate Student Engagement and Differentiation in the Classroom

DR. DERRICK MEARS, PH.D.E D . S . C O O R D I N AT O R , A S S O C I AT E P R O F E S S O R O F C U R R I C U L U M A N D I N S T R U C T I O N / E D U C AT I O N A L T E C H N O LO G YU N I V E R S I T Y O R A R K A N S A S

E M A I L : D M E A R S @ U A R K . E D U

W E B : W W W.T I N Y U R L . C O M / M E A R S D R

T W I T T E R : @ M E A R S D R