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Ceiren Bell Department of Media and Communications Engagement through Imagery: Visual Scaffolding as constructivist practice Twitter: #fyn15 Tumblr: ceirenbell.tumblr.com Learner- generated visual scaffolding: Engages,


  1. Ceiren Bell Department of Media and Communications

  2. Engagement through Imagery: ‘Visual Scaffolding’ as constructivist practice

  3. Twitter: #fyn15 Tumblr: ceirenbell.tumblr.com

  4. Learner- generated ‘visual scaffolding’: • Engages, empowers and embeds learning • Provides effective and creative means of formative assessment • Promotes constructivist processes

  5. “ZONE OF PROXIMAL DEVELOPMENT” Unknown/ abstract POTENTIAL LEV VYGOTSKY “ZPD” (1896 – 1934) ACTUAL Known/ familiar “SCAFFOLDING” JEROME BRUNER (1915 - )

  6. HOW LEARNER-GENERATED VISUAL SCAFFOLDING HELPS TO ENGAGE FOUNDATION LEARNERS • Makes accessible complex and unfamiliar concepts • Engages prior learning and knowledge • Personalises and embeds learning • Makes a virtue of, and effectively utilises, diversity • Encourages collaborative learning and synthesises diverse perspectives • Breaks down the ‘teacher/ learner’ hierarchy and models ‘good’ practice • Makes valid every attempt at learning • Assists with differentiation/ equalises the playing field • Incorporates technology (‘blended’ learning)

  7. Twitter: #fyn15 Tumblr: ceirenbell.tumblr.com

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