I think you’re right but I also think I can provide examples of “true” scaffolding skills:
How to pass an exam: in order to keep learning with the academic system/university/school you need to regularly do good enough at exams. That is a skill in itself (read the exam in its entirety, know when to move on, learn how hard a question is likely to be depending on the phrasing of the following questions, …) Almost everyone safely forget most of this skill once they are done studying.
Learn to understand your teacher’s feedback: many teachers, professional or otherwise, suck at communicating their feedback. You often need to develop a skill of understanding that specific individual’s feedback. Of course there is a underlying universal skill of “being good at learning how individuals give feedback”; we could think of it as the skill “being good at building a specific kind of scaffolding”.
Learn to accept humiliating defeat: A martial artist friend told me it is important at first to learn to accept losing all the time because you learn in the company of strictly better martial artists. Once you get better, you presumably lose less often.
I think you’re right but I also think I can provide examples of “true” scaffolding skills:
How to pass an exam: in order to keep learning with the academic system/university/school you need to regularly do good enough at exams. That is a skill in itself (read the exam in its entirety, know when to move on, learn how hard a question is likely to be depending on the phrasing of the following questions, …) Almost everyone safely forget most of this skill once they are done studying.
Learn to understand your teacher’s feedback: many teachers, professional or otherwise, suck at communicating their feedback. You often need to develop a skill of understanding that specific individual’s feedback. Of course there is a underlying universal skill of “being good at learning how individuals give feedback”; we could think of it as the skill “being good at building a specific kind of scaffolding”.
Learn to accept humiliating defeat: A martial artist friend told me it is important at first to learn to accept losing all the time because you learn in the company of strictly better martial artists. Once you get better, you presumably lose less often.