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Exploring the literacy skills that are embedded in the technology that saturates adolescents’ lives helps to establish the relevance of literacy education. Educators who design lessons around collaboration, inquiry, choice, and authenticity increase the chances that students will judge the activity to be relevant and choose to engage. Additionally, explicit literacy instruction is essential to ensure that comprehension deepens as content becomes more complex. Those educators who emphasize the relevance of literacy skills provide adolescent learners with a solid foundation for future success.  \nWhen adolescent learners recognize the foundational role that literacy plays in their success, both as students and as productive citizens, they are more likely to engage in literacy learning as a relevant pursuit. While the call for literacy skills that accommodate an everbroadening understanding of text has increased in the digital age, not all learners are responding to that call. Exploring the literacy connected to real-world technology applications reveals the deep relevance that comes from infusing learning with digital forms of text. The nature of literacy continues to evolve as technology expands the existing modes and the pace of modern communication. In response, literacy skills must be supported by deeper comprehension to support the selection, storage, and retrieval of vast quantities of information. Increased engagement is fundamental to support the skill development essential to successful literacy instruction. Student engagement increases when educators design lessons that incorporate collaboration, inquiry, choice, and authenticity. Once engagement is established, explicit instruction can take place to equip adolescents to tackle the challenge of more specialized content. Adolescents invest their energy in what they perceive to be relevant, so educators must help them to recognize the undeniable power that literacy has to shape their lives.  \nLiteracy for the Future  \nStrong literacy skills, including digital literacy linked to the technology that has become ubiquitous, are essential to every phase of life: post-secondary education, career, and even productive citizenship (North Central Regional Education Laboratory [NCREL], 2005) . Nearly 60% of today’s jobs require a post-secondary education (Haynes, 2014, p. 1) . The global economy is fueled by workers who possess advanced literacy skills. Conversely, 40% of employers say that today’s high school graduates do not possess the level of literacy necessary to compete. The current generation of learners is preparing to work in a knowledge economy, confronting vast quantities of information, which must be mined for the data relevant to each application (Jacobsen, 2010) . This glut of digital information demands the ability to read and understand a variety of texts and to communicate digitally, with both speed and accuracy. Targeted inquiry, collaboration, and innovation are the essential skills of the 21st century worker. These lifelong capacities are built on a foundation of strong literacy skills.  \nToday’s adolescent learners are digital natives, who are more likely to see the relevance of literacy within the context of an online application. Members of the net generation, including all those born after 1982, possess strong visual skills but are weak textual learners, with a preference for experiential learning (Roos, 2007) . This generation finds creativity and connection through social media and gaming. If schools fail to incorporate some aspects of the digital experience, engagement is less likely. Today’s learner thinks with a hypertext mind,  \nconnecting and reconnecting snippets of sound, images, and text to make meaning. 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