Scaffolding tools play important role in helping and supporting players＇ self-directed learning in educational games. By analyzing and summarizing the related theory, application and typical educational games, and combining with the characteristics of information literacy, this paper suggests that it has four basic functions of knowledge transfer, guidance, feedback, and communication in information literacy educational games. The scaffolding tool can be divided into five types of scene, goal and task, resources, communication and evaluation s...
