Uploaded August 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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Why are balance bikes effect for teaching kids how to bike ride? It is a perfect example of instructional scaffolding: a modification that helps students meaningfully participate in a target skill.

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00:00 Introduction
00:38 What is instructional scaffolding?
01:28 A second advantage of balance bikes.
01:52 Figuring out the right scaffolding.

This is the video from the Global Cycling Network: youtu.be/UOg1hHmGIQQ

Reference

This is a great, thorough piece on scaffolding, that gives a more precise definition and discusses many (many!) issues that I didn't touch on here, but hope to in future videos:

Belland, B. R. (2017). Instructional scaffolding: foundations and evolving definition. In Instructional scaffolding in STEM education (pp. 17-53). Springer, Cham.
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-02565-0_2