Pedagogical Frameworks of E-Reader Technologies in Education

Pedagogical Frameworks: Past And Present

A pedagogical framework provides a structure for understanding teaching that occurs in the classroom. It provides researchers, teachers, and administrators with a lens from which to both evaluate teacher performance and train new teachers. A framework identifies the knowledge, skills, and dispositions of a teacher who is guiding their students to achieve.

The role of the classroom teacher in 21^st century learning is critical; the teacher’s range of knowledge will guide how teaching and learning will take place in her classroom, the opportunities she will create to engage students with multimodal learning, her scaffold for teaching multimodality, and her language with which she will discuss and communicate such teaching and learning (Kalantzis, Cope, & Cloonan, 2010). Teachers will also need to align technologies with standards that represent 21^st century knowledge and skills, as well as with content and pedagogy and develop the ability to use technologies to meet students’ learning needs (AACTE, 2010). Teachers will be required to guide students’ reading and engagement with complex print and non-print texts and overall learning through complex digital learning spaces (Coiro, 2009).