The International Literacy Association maintains that effective engagement is the critical component of literacy instruction for adolescents. To effectively engage adolescent students means offering them the opportunity to use literacy in meaningful ways, interact with a variety of texts, participate in assessment for and as learning, and experience a community of learners in and out of school. Adolescent literacy today happens within and beyond the confines of the traditional classroom walls and thus, collaboration is paramount, whether through traditional means (e.g., bringing the outside in to your classroom--people, places, things) or through the addition of augmented reality, virtual reality, or both. Considerations of how students use multimedia within learning (e.g., layered literacies) are necessary as emerging technologies are integrated increasingly within core planning and instruction. Partnering with others to plan across disciplines propels students to use literacy skills for knowledge acquisition across content areas (Chandler-Olcott, 2017).