4min chapter

Education Bookcast cover image

106d. How children learn?

Education Bookcast

CHAPTER

Is Scaffolding Really Effective?

In tribal societies, you wouldn't have had the kind of things like mathematics or some deep analytic sense of history. In modern culture, you don't have that anymore. So yeah, I wanted to say that it's understandable that imitation is so important but also it has implications when we think about pedagogy. There's a thing called the worked example effect. It makes sense because you can think about this as imitation. Basically, you show someone here, look, I'm doing a problem. Look at me. And then they end up imitating your solution of the problem,. But start from easier cases and move to harder ones. That's a connection that we can make between cognitive science

00:00

Get the Snipd
podcast app

Unlock the knowledge in podcasts with the podcast player of the future.
App store bannerPlay store banner

AI-powered
podcast player

Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features

Discover
highlights

Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode

Save any
moment

Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways

Share
& Export

Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more

AI-powered
podcast player

Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features

Discover
highlights

Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode