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A great visual presentation of a scaffolding activity for younger learners - but adaptable to older ones, too. Use drawing to spark deeper thinking and set pathways to research later.

This 2 min. video shows how a teacher uses questioning strategies to help students think through, clarify, structure. and discover their own learning. She uses different types of questions to help scaffold understanding.

This is a nice demonstration of scaffolding, note-taking, and discussion for young adult / adult learners.

How to scaffold with vocabulary and grammar to build understanding of poetry. Uses a word wall (which could be online) to keep technical literary definitions in mind as they deconstruct the poem. This would work for ESL/EFL students equally well.

This short (2.17 min) video shows how students in a multi-cultural, multi-language high school class, this teacher gradually puts the responsibility for learning about a topic (in this case Shakespeare and tragedy) directly on the students.

LInks and insights from a talk at the iPadpalooza Conference 2015, Austin, TX: "Giving students websites increases motivation, reflection, and ownership of learning A blog is a type of website that includes an RSS feed (subscription) and comments (feedback loop) An ePortfolio is a structured blog or website that includes scaffolding for organizing student work Publishing on the web is not only 'the law', it builds digital citizenship and provides an authentic audience for students There are tons of web publishing tools available. WordPress powers 25% of the entire web for a reason. Many schools and districts are providing WordPress blog and website networks to every teacher and student. No two implementations are the same. Make it your own. But know there are tons of resources available."

Take the notion that children have specific learning styles, that some are "visual learners" and others are auditory; some are "left-brain" students, others "right-brain." . . . . "The contrast between the enormous popularity of the learning-styles approach within education and the lack of credible evidence for its utility is, in our opinion, striking and disturbing," the researchers concluded. Forcing the brain to make multiple associations with the same material may, in effect, give that information more neural scaffolding. "What we think is happening here is that, when the outside context is varied, the information is enriched, and this slows down forgetting," Testing helps memory: The harder it is to remember something, the harder it is to later forget. This effect, which researchers call "desirable difficulty," is evident in daily life.

Common Core and using questions and scaffolding support for an academic discussion. The Teaching Channel demonstrations also including supporting questions for teachers. Students run their own discussion.

Sixth-graders use blogs to express themselves as they learn how to use the technology of blogs and have an authentic audience of others in the class. Students begin with a "paper blog" with comments/responses on Post-it notes. As students finish a book, they talk about the characters and then write about them on the blog, using a specific assignment by he teacher. Includes Common Core standards and suggestions of ways to scaffold the technology for success.

"Use this downloadable PowerPoint show, complete with script in the Notes area, to walk students through the process of creating an infographic. The show includes tips on using the tools available in PowerPoint to "build" infographics right on a PowerPoint slide and save it as an image file. Even if you do not use PowerPoint, the tips will apply in any visual tool from Google Docs/Drive Drawing to a full image editing program such as Photoshop. Please note and respect the copyright notice on this show." A nice sample lesson and ideas on constructive criticism and a customizable rubric in Word doc.