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3Comprehensive Support for Teachers, Administrators, and Families
u In addition to teacher scaffolding of learning, new technologies providing scaffolds and tools can be used to enhance learning. “These designs use technologies to scaffold thinking and activity, much as training wheels allow young bike riders to practice cycling when they would fall without support. Like training wheels, computer scaffolding enables learners to do more advanced activities and to engage in more advanced thinking and problem solving than they could without such help” (Bransford, Brown, & Cocking, 2000, p. 214).
u To assess program efficacy and support effective instruction, teachers, principals, and district administrators need easy access to real-time data at the classroom, school, and district levels (Carnegie Council on Advancing Adolescent Literacy, 2010; U.S. Department of Education, 2010).
u Teachers “have limited time to assess students’ performances and provide feedback, but new advances in technology can help solve this problem . . .” (Bransford, Brown, & Cocking, 2000, p. 142).
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