Scaffolding Academic Language by Identifying Visual Differences (Higher Education)

Giving your older students tasks that really challenge them, while hiding learning within the dynamic activity, is a win for everyone. This scaffold also creates opportunities for your students to use academic terms and phrases while analysing, comparing, categorising, and defending their own ideas, triggered by the search for visual differences in an educational resource you’ve manipulated. Personalising and categorising information makes learning go deeper and they will be able to process the successive lesson more fluidly and confidently.