CSC/ECE 517 Fall 2010/ch2 2d dg

Scaffolding

Overview

Scaffolding in General

Scaffolding in education is basically the support a teacher gives to a new student to get him started on his subject. Scaffolding is also the temporary structure often used by workers in construction.

So what we know of the word scaffolding in real world – a temporary structure to lean on while you build the main structure. The temporary structure can then be discarded.