Week 8- Scaffolding

Summary:

• Tom Bruch, John Saye
• Soft scaffolds, the dynamic actions of a teacher or peer in support of an activity
• Hard scaffolds: the static supports that can be planned in advance.

• Four types of scaffolding (Hannafin, Land, Oliver, 1999)
• Conceptual: 
• "here's the help you'll need for understanding this concept
•  --> highlight important concepts, provide questions or definition
• Strategic: 
• --> bullet points/ listing / diagrams
• Metacognitive
• --> reflection
• Procedural
• --> clip guy-information on procedure

• Things to think about:
• Complexity: ease vs challenge
• Structure: contrived vs realistic/ authentic
• Depth: basic vs deep understanding

• Decision points
• Presentation of content
• Practice
• Feedback
• Assessment
• Feedback
• Conclusion(reflection)

• A word about fading
• The goal: fade the support; achieve learner independence
• We don't always get this right

• How do we consider scaffolding in our design?
• Intentional design decisions
• Hard scaffolding
• Soft scaffolding
• With consideration for
• Complexity
• Structure
•  depth
• At various decision points
• Presentation
• Practice/feedback
• Assessment/feedback

• What's the difference between a job aid and a scaffold?
• Technology tools for job aids/ scaffolding
• Adobe captivate
• Groups diigo  

Reflection:

                                                  "What's the difference between a job aid and a scaffold? "

      To answer this question, I searched for more information on job aids and I found these two links to be extremely helpful: Designing a job aid, Dave's Ensampler. Based on my understanding, they are different in the following aspects:

	Job Aids	Scaffold
Purpose	To quickly access information to perform a task	To effectively acquire knowledge during task execution
Design	Gear towards one specific task	Gear towards specific learning goals
Element	Only involves presentation	Involves presentation, practice, feedback and assessment
Type	Tend to be procedural	Can be conceptual, strategic, metacognitive or procedural.

Basically, I feel that job aid is a part of scaffolding process while scaffolding involves a broader scope of learner's learning. I don't know if I understand correctly though...