SCAFFOLDING LEARNING

+ HELPING WRITERS IN THEIR ZPD

 NORDLOF/VYGOTSKY... 

Nordlof's thesis: "The ZPD provides us with a more appropriate conceptual basis for writing center work than social construction, as it provides a developmental model for how student learning occurs, as opposed to social construction’s focus on how knowledge is created in professional fields." (59)

 NORDLOF/VYGOTSKY... 

-What is Nordlof's criticism of Lunsford's idea of socially constructed knowledge in the WC? (51)

-What is Nordlof's criticism of Carino/Bruffee? (50-54)

-What was Vygotsky's initial insight about the problematic ways we view knowledge and growth in school? (55, 58)

-What is Vygotsky's "model for understanding student learning"? (56)

-What is "cognitive scaffolding?" "Motivational scaffolding?" (57)

 NORDLOF/VYGOTSKY... 

Detail the scaffolding of one group member's work with one writer...

-what "shared goal(s)" did the tutor and writer have?

-what did the "ongoing diagnosis" look/sound like? What "dialogic and interactive" activities took place?  

-what did the tutor do? Why? What did the tutor "leave out"? Why? 

-what implicit or tangible evidence of learning and/or growth does the tutor have? I.e., does the tutor have evidence of "fading"?