Editorial: Scaffolding the Medium

Guest Editorial - Creative Design: Scaffolding Creative Reasoning and Meaningful Learning

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Editorial: Architecture as a Communicative Medium

Environmental psychology categorizes “physical environment” as “typically neutral,” only coming into selfconscious awareness when individuals form stable and enduring representations of it [1]. We see this manifest in the real world when the steeple of a church is able to communicate that it is a place for reflection and religious gathering; the bricks and ivy of Harvard Yard signifies years of...

Diesel engines for light-to-medium helicopters and airplanes (Editorial)

Editorial: English as mediated literacy: Revisiting mode and medium

The rapid and ubiquitous proliferation of new media literacy tools and texts create opportunities for widespread innovation, and challenges the traditional English, Language Arts analysis and description of the processes of literacy in a digital world. The authors of this issue address these changes in articles that draw upon their personal experiences, research, teaching, and participatory res...

Scaffolding Analysis: Extending the Scaffolding Metaphor to Learning Artifacts

The scaffolding metaphor was originally developed to describe the support given by a more expert individual in a one-on-one interaction. Since then, the notion of scaffolding has been applied more broadly, and it has been transformed and generalized. Most recently, it has been used by researchers in the learning sciences to describe features and functions of technological artifacts, especially ...