ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses ways in which to integrate technologies either through the sequencing, overlay, or juxtaposition of resources and experiences. The technologies featured in the chapter serve as vehicles to deep and authentic learning that inspire ideation and critical thinking because these tools do more than provide access to information; the devices help students examine culture, dominant discourses, and learning. A layered literacies framework for the classroom not only supports the dynamic interconnection among digital and non-digital tools, but also emphasizes the nuanced convergence and coherence of experiences and skills that inform meaning making. Allowing students to use familiar and non-threatening, dynamic texts that do not feel like school work to look at and discuss, clarify, and scaffold their understanding of conventional classroom information can increase their interest and motivation. Helping students use out of classroom activities to familiarize themselves with in-class demands is one way in which to activate students schemata and promote layered literacies.
