What is the right learning scaffolding?
Well, it depends on what we’re teaching and who we’re teaching it to and where we’re teaching it. So there’s no right answer to that. But the symptoms of the not right ones are people who disengage or who don’t understand, or that you use lose your audience, or you bore your audience. We think about the word audience all the time. They’re all audiences. Because the relationship with an audience is different than the relationship with a student or the relationship with a trainee. Your audience is somebody you better respect deeply, and that’s the way we think about it. But does that connote a more passive role than a learner or student? Not to me. I’m a storyteller, remember, so there’s nothing more important in the world than an audience. And they can be extremely active, depending on what they’re an audience of. Eva Kaplan-Leiserson is associate editor of Learning Circuits.
