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Appropriate design of collaborative learning activities for students using mobile devicescan be supported by different forms of scaffolding provided by peers, by the teacher orby the technology. Building on prior studies in mCSCL (mobile computer-supportedcollaborative learning), we developed Chinese-PP, a novel in-class mobile synchronouscollaborative learning game for constructing Chinese characters from components, withthe unique characteristic of spontaneous small group formations. In this paper, wepropose a distributed scaffolding design framework to guide us in examiningand refining/revising the interplay among various forms of scaffolding in thelearning model across various design-based research (DBR) cycles of our studyon Chinese-PP in a primary school in Singapore. We believe a generalizedscaffolding design framework has the potential to inform technology-enhancedlearning research with a structure to support the iterative process of enactingand redesigning the socio-techno-pedagogical frameworks developed byindividual research project