Distributed scaffolding is a concept developed by Sadhana Puntambekar and Janet Kolodner in 1998 describing an ongoing system of student support delivered through multiple tools, activities, technologies and environments that increase student learning and performance. It extends the scaffolding idea introduced by Jerome Bruner, David Wood and Gail Ross in 1976, which pictured a single adult expert guiding one student through a complex task; a classroom of twenty or more students at differing developmental levels instead needs many kinds of support distributed across different sources, methods and amounts, addressing each student's own zone of proximal development rather than relying on one expert-to-student relationship.
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Core ClaimA classroom of many students at differing developmental levels needs many kinds of support distributed across different sources, methods and amounts, addressing each student's own zone of proximal development, rather than the single expert-to-student relationship the original scaffolding idea pictured. 1 FAQs
Why does scaffolding need to be distributed in a large classroom?
A classroom holds students at many levels, so many support structures are needed.
A classroom has many students at multiple different levels of skill or zones of proximal development. Because of this, there is a need to create many support structures that can properly address each student, rather than relying on a single source of support.
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Wikimedia FoundationOpening paragraph, first sentence
Distributed scaffolding is a concept developed by Puntambekar and Kolodner in 1998 that describes an ongoing system of student support through multiple tools, activities, technologies and environments that increase student learning and performance.
Overview section, final sentence
With many students and multiple different levels of skill or Zones of Proximal Development, there is a need to create many support structures that can properly address each student's developmental level.
Lead paragraph, education-level
Distributed scaffolding is a concept developed by Puntambekar and Kolodner in 1998 that describes an ongoing system of student support through multiple tools, activities, technologies and environments that increase student learning and performance.
Associated With: Instructional Scaffolding, Overview section, second sentence
Originally introduced by Wood, Bruner, and Ross in 1976, the learning tool of scaffolding is rooted in individualized support and tutoring.
Associated With: Zone of Proximal Development, Theoretical basis of scaffolding section, opening sentence
This instructional tool is rooted in Vygotsky's socioconstructivist model of the Zone of Proximal Development
In Approach: Constructivism, Lead paragraph, in-approach
With many students and multiple different levels of skill or Zones of Proximal Development, there is a need to create many support structures that can properly address each student's developmental level.
In Group: Apprenticeship, Scaffolding and Situated Learning Theories, Lead
Distributed scaffolding is a concept developed by Puntambekar and Kolodner in 1998 that describes an ongoing system of student support through multiple tools, activities, technologies and environments that increase student learning and performance.
Developed By: Jerome Bruner, intro of the article
Originally introduced by Wood, Bruner, and Ross in 1976, the learning tool of scaffolding is rooted in individualized support and tutoring.
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