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QR coding is a tool used to engage students in active learning. Codes are easily generated, easily scanned by a free app on the tablet/phone, and provide endless information that teachers want students to know.

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QR Codes

A QR Code (it stands for "Quick Response") is a mobile phone readable bar code that can store website URL's, plain text, phone numbers, email addresses and pretty much any other alphanumeric data.

The QR Stuff QR Code Generator allows you to create either dynamic or static QR codes and download them for immediate use

Storing up to 4296 characters they are internationally standardised under ISO 18004, so a QR code is a QR code all over the world - they've been big in Japan forever, broke into Europe and the UK a few years back, and are now popular in North America.

Think "print-based hypertext links" and you'll get the idea.
Click here for more information about QR codes or visit the QRStuff QR Code Blog for QR code articles, tips and tricks.

Scan QR Codes

The QR Stuff QR Code Scanner allows users to scan QR codes simply and easily from within your browser with no need to download and install a QR code scanning app or QR code reader software. Simply go to Scan from the menu bar at the top of this page and after granting access to your device camera, you're ready to scan a QR code using your laptop or mobile device.*

Create Free QR Codes

Our QR Code Generator is FREE for anyone to use with no sign-up or account required - fully functional, 100% ad-free, permanent QR codes that don't expire. Generate as many QR codes as you need for FREE with no restrictions on commercial use. No time limits, just free QR codes you can use with confidence straight away.

Dynamic QR Code created without a subscription are subject to 50 scans per month per QR Code.

23 free qr code data types

Free users can access 23 of our 30 QR code data types (PDF, Image and Attendance Tracking require a paid subscription). Websites, YouTube, Google Maps? Meh! Everyone gives you those, but our free users can create fully functional non-expiring QR codes for App Store Downloads, Dropbox file sharing, SMS and email messages, Bitcoin, Paypal and more. And you can create as many of them as you like.

Download, Print Or Email Your QR Codes

Once you've created your QR Codes you can download them as PNG image files, print them as sheets of stickers, or email them to yourself or someone else. Just choose the Output Type you need.

100% Ad Free QR Codes

Our QR codes are guaranteed 100% ad-free, even for free users, so you can get on with promoting your product without someone else's brand getting in the way. By the way, if you do see an ad after scanning one of our QR codes, the scanning app that you're using put it there.

Custom QR Code Printed Products

Generate your own QR Code and then you and your code are sent to the Zazzle print-on-demand website to add your QR code to a t-shirt, a coffee cup, a hat, business cards, stickers, and more - all ready for immediate purchase, printing and delivery direct to your door.

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- Interactive
- Student Discovery
- Student Independence
- Access to Learning from Home
- Enhance Student Learning
- Direct Access to Videos

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According to the Center for Educational Innovation, "active learning is any approach to instruction in which all students are asked to engage in the learning process (2018). This can look different in many ways. There are several strategies that can be enforced to move students into active learning. Research shows that active learning is what gets information "stuck" in students' minds to apply the objectives to future learning or situations. Below is a chart of the various strategies teachers can use to move students into active learning.

QR Coding is a strategy not listed in the chart above, but it is becoming more widely used in the active learning process for students. QR Codes are black and white bar codes that can be scanned to lead a person to information. They can easily be made using a QR code generator. This tool can be used in any subject as a way for students to use technology to enhance their learning. For example, during Daily5, one station could be where students have to scan QR codes with the tablets to discover the antonyms for new vocabulary. In Math, students can use a QR code to check their answers to problems they have already solved. This allows for student independence and less time for them waiting in line for the teacher to check their work. Furthermore, teachers can spend more time with the students who are struggling with the objective and provide extra support, while others move on with their work or extended activities.

QR coding engages students in active learning by allowing them to independently use a tool to further their learning. Many educators are realizing that any form of technology is what gets students excited about learning these days. Outside of school, so much of how students spend their time is within the realm of technology. The key to active learning is independence. Research shows that students remember 90% of what THEY do. Not what a teacher tells them in a lecture or shows them in a video, but what the students actually do on their own. This provides each child with permission to be responsible for what they do with what is put in front of them. This is active learning!

I believe that we, as educators, need to include active learning strategies in as many of our lessons as possible. If this is what is going to get our students to really learn information and apply it, the chances of improving student performance and test scores are going to be very high, as well. Now, who wouldn't want that!In my classroom, I have used many of the active learning strategies in the chart above. The students' responses to the activity are priceless!They voice how much fun the activity was, and I can see that some of my usuals are not secluding themselves out of boredom. Yeah, sometimes we still must do a little lecture here and there to activate prior knowledge or provide background information, but most of our efforts should be in getting students engaged in their own learning.

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Check out this link to ways to use QR Coding in the classroom:

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So Many Fun Ways to use QR Codes in the Classroom!

I've culled a bunch of ideas from different teachers who have shared their approaches to using this simple but powerful construct in the classroom. Once your students are equipped with a device that can read QR codes and they know how to scan them, you're ready to use ideas like these in your classroom!

If you're not already familiar with it, scroll down to the bottom of the article to learn how to easily create QR codes, and find QR Code readers.

Ideas, Ideas, and More Ideas!

The article, Ways to use QR Codes in the Elementary Classroom and Using Google Docs to Create Them, by Jill Thompson, offers these uses:

Library Book Add-On: Put QR codes on classroom library books, linking out to information about the author and or book. "You can also have students create 'book trailers' and turn them into QR codes using iMovie!"

Scavenger Hunts: "Create scavenger hunts and/or webquests for your students that get them moving around the room. Scanning a QR code makes is easier for the younger students so they don't have to type the long urls."

Inform Parents: "Place QR codes around the school informing parents ... about different places around the school."

Access Help: Add QR codes to homework sheets that link out to sources of help. "For example, if the student forgets how to solve a math problem or gets stuck, they can scan the QR code for help. The QR codes can be linked to a 'how to video' such as a Khan Academy video or a ShowMe video you created yourself. "

QR Stations for self-directed learning: "... have the students become self-directed learners by creating QR stations. The students scan the QR code to reveal the task and the students must work together to get the task complete. This builds on the 21st century skills of communication, collaboration and critical thinking."

Cite Sources: Have students use QR to link out to sources they use for research for paper writing, etc.

These ideas come from the web page QR Codes - What are they and how can I use them in my classroom? by Greg O'Connor.

Assistive Technology: "Provide an alternative access format for students who need additional support in reading and writing." Students can quickly access information while using their own literacy support apps or software.

Classroom Hot Spots! "Provide information 'hot spots' throughout the classroom to access online videos, websites, text that is related to curriculum and instructional material."

Interactive Classroom Calendar: "Attach QR Codes to the classroom calendar / timetable to point to information about upcoming class events, assessment reminders, etc."

Website access from IWB: "Take students to a website you are browsing on an interactive whiteboard. Using the Mobile Barcoder add-on for the Firefox web browser, quickly generate a QR Code and have students scan with their own hand held device."

These idea were published by Diana Rees in QR Codes: Augmenting Augmented Reality.

Link handouts to resources: Turn a handout into a "dynamic, interactive resources by linking them to interactive update-able websites".

Link to the Campus Map

Add information to artwork: "To link artwork ... to information about the artwork, the artist, the historical period, etc."

Nutritional Information: "To link nutritional objects to calorie counters (and other health applications)"

Online Manuals: "link equipment to online how-to-manuals"

I found these sources on this Pinterest page from Elizabeth Mills. These are geared towards younger elementary grade students.

Easy Audiobook Access: This web page discusses 75 Story Time Read Aloud Picture Books with QR Codes Cards, an app that could be purchased and placed on a shared iPad, enabling students to scan a QR code and then listen as popular children's books are read aloud!

Check Work: Create QR codes that students can use to check their work

Award Prizes! Use a QR code to award a prize for good work or good behavior! The code can simply link to web page or image that informs them what their reward is (a new pencil o marker, a cool eraser, etc.).

Next we have a set of ideas from Edutopia, via Andrew Miller.

Provide a Service: "If students helped create awareness around spreading germs, for example, they might put the [QR] codes around the school or in a parent newsletter."

Go Green! Rather than giving students the time-worn paper handout, provide a QR code that accesses instructions, announcements, or assignments. Use one page of QR codes to displace multiple handouts, or use codes on-screen to eliminate paper entirely!

Provide Optional Activities for those "Go-Getters": "A great way to provide optional activities for students who want to excel is to simply put the code on the class assignment and let them follow it to the extension activity or question."

Vote: "QR codes can be a great voting tool allowing students to vote by simply scanning the code as they enter or exit the classroom."

Finally, here's a few other fun ideas that I came across that are worth sharing:

Creating and Reading QR Codes

Creating QR codes is super easy when you have a web tool that works well for it. The hardest part is really having appropriate content to access. The idea of the QR code is that it is a simple a way to access a URL (i.e. a web address). A QR code is an image file (it can be a png, jpg, etc.) that when scanned by a QR Code reader will access the URL it links to, which typically means it will open a web page.

Once you have found content you want to share, or created content and made it available online, you just use a site like " QRstuff " to create a QR code that works for the URL you created. Open QRstuff, paste in a URL (under "2 Content") and the site provides a QR code image (on the right side of the screen, under "QR Code Preview") that you download, save, and use however you want.

As for QR Code Readers, they are typically free. This site offers good ones for popular Operating Systems.

So go for it - create your first code, just to familiarize your self with the process, then scan the dozens of ideas above and come up with some creative approaches to use these in your classroom!

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25 Fun Ways to use QR Codes for Teaching and Learning

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I've culled a bunch of ideas from different teachers who have shared their approaches to using this simple but powerful construct in the classroom. Once your students are equipped with a device that can read QR codes and they know how to scan them, you're ready to use ideas like these in your classroom!