When the scaffolding shifts under your feet

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. When the scaffolding shifts under your feet
Giulia Forsythe, G-LOG, 2016/02/09
Is this true? Sean Michael Morris writes "Any effort on my part to scaffold (and effort to scaffold learning at all) would be colonial, patriarchal, and disempowering." It's a challenge that flies in the face of the educational enterprise as a whole (and especially the learner-empowering constructivists who employ scaffolding as a proxy for didacticism). More...