A  DIGITAL  Scaffolding  Toolbar

My innovation artifact -ReadJoy- has two phases:

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ReadJoy: Digital Scaffolding For Struggling Readers

First one is a digital scaffolding toolbar for struggling readers. This digital scaffolding toolbar including features such as concept mapping, highlighting, outlining, text-to-speech, dictionary, tanslation, annotation, and summarization is presented to struggling readers in a gamified environment which is similar to Wiki Game so that they will get motivated to read more and more!

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MOOC for Content Area Teachers

Second one is a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) for in-service content area teachers at post-elementary levels. This MOOC includes tutorials that explain pedagogy of reading scaffolding and how ReadJoy is used, and offers some hands-on activities so that teachers will become knowledgeable about the merits of digital scaffolding and ready to use ReadJoy for struggling readers in their classes.