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Student QR codes replace passwords in some California classrooms

09/16/201609/14/2016 Jorge Gonzalez

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Kids are benefiting from the use of technology to help to support in-class learning techniques. Kids in a San Jose, California classroom are benefiting from the use of special student QR codes that eliminate the need for tedious password memorization and entry. This not only makes it easier for the kids to use classroom technology, but it also gives the teachers a bit of a break. The quick response codes were given to each child in a kindergarten class to replace login passwords. That way, the kids can hold up…

Students use QR codes to share history of town

07/17/201507/15/2015 Jorge Gonzalez

Teens from Sacred Heart School in Swaffham have placed quick response codes around their town. Students from the Swaffham Sacred Heart School have used QR codes to provide visitors to the Town Trail with access to video recordings that offer more information about the historical site that they are facing. There are a total of 44 different quick response codes that have been placed at locations throughout the town. These QR codes are scanned by smartphones and tablets in order to play recordings that offer information about the person or…

QR codes to provide HCC self guided tours

10/24/201310/21/2013 Jennifer Goula

Campus visitors will be able to use their smartphones or tablets to find their way around and learn more. Hutchinson Community College has now launched a new self guided tour program that uses QR codes and the smartphones and tablets of visitors in order to provide visitors with instant information while they work their way around the local college campus. The announcement was made during the college’s 85th anniversary celebration last weekend. The Hutchinson Community College will now have QR codes positioned at various buildings located all over the campus.…

QR codes for book reviews help educator win award

08/29/201308/26/2013 Julie Campbell

A man in Sidney, Nebraska has now won the Unsung Heroes award with these barcodes. An elementary instructor from Sidney, Nebraska has just won the Unsung Heroes award after having created a new method of technology based book reviews that employ QR codes to provide access to the works. The teacher was one of 100 winners of the award from across the United States. Rick Meyer, a K-6 tech facilitator and instructor from North Elementary was among 100 winners nationwide and was among only three of the winning teachers who…

QR codes make book reports easier to share

06/20/201306/18/2013 Julie Campbell

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Students at a Niagara Falls school have made their work available to read simply by way of a scan using a smartphone. The students in a Niagara Falls classroom are not only writing the traditional form of book report, but they are also making their work and their reviews available to anyone with a smartphone, by issuing QR codes to be scanned in order to view them. This is another example of technology making its way into the classroom to broaden the interest of students. In this instance, it is…