ABSTRACT
This chapter provides examples from inside middle and high school classrooms that illustrate how we can bridge student's literate experiences and integrate technology in ways that both support their development of complex literacy skills and empower students to succeed in and beyond the classroom. Though the authors recognize the importance of content area knowledge reflective, and generative thinking and ideation. By focusing on the teacher's role, we can examine the importance of inspired pedagogy, technology integration, and layered literacies. The layered literacies dimension also creates room for expanded standards for technology integration; this would include language that more directly focuses on pedagogy that aligns with student learning. Other ways technology can help give immediate feedback and encourage reflection, revision, and creativity may be in student-generated video-recordings of their work that they then play back and assess. Despite the pitfalls of contemporary assessment culture, technology can help to promote ongoing, formative evaluations that honor the process of learning.
