This chapter explores how digital technologies can be used in middle years classrooms to create opportunities for dynamic, deep, and interactive learning. The authors focus on how changes in society and work require middle years educators to consider/reconsider how they prepare students for their future. They maintain that the current paradigm of schooling does not align with contemporary middle years students’ socially conscious nature and desire for authentic/purposeful learning. The chapter offers the E4C framework as a new pedagogical approach for teachers that emphasises the intentional use of digital technologies to energise learning in the middle years. The framework draws on two guiding considerations, ethical principles and energise learning activities, each of these ideas typically underpins design of technology use in middle years education. The authors provide examples of how digital technologies can be used to create immersive experiences for students through VR and AR technologies. AI (GenAI) is described, and guidelines are provided. A future-focused pedagogy is advocated, one that includes authentic opportunities for students to create solutions to problems.