2minuteMoodle: What is it and how to do it? — from Nona Muldoon (back from 8/1/09)
The 2minuteMoodle motto
“Where before there was a spectator, let there now be a participant.” ~ Jerome Bruner
Scaffolding can be characterised as acting on this motto (Bransford et al, 2000), and the aim of the 2minuteMoodle is to provide students additional scaffolding in the learning and teaching process at CQUniversity.
What is scaffolding?
In educational setting, scaffolding is a metaphor used to describe learner support mechanisms, which may be delivered by human and/or embedded in computer-based technological tools. Proponents such as Shaphiro suggest that scaffolding provides learners with a “support structure that aids them in attaining a higher level of achievement” (2008, p. 29).