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Remi Kalir

4 Jan, 7 tweets, 4 min read

Educators planning for the new semester: Annotate the syllabus.

Whether K-12 or higher ed.

Whatever your discipline and course format.

Because students should read the syllabus & then discuss it.

Create an #AnnotatedSyllabus

All resources: remikalir.com/annotatedsylla…

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An #AnnotatedSyllabus is a simple strategy: Simple conceptually, for it is easy to understand; simple pedagogically, for it is easy to implement and facilitate; and simple technologically, just share your syllabus as a Gdoc that allows for commentary.
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Creating an #AnnotatedSyllabus conveys a message–from day one–that course documents are not static artifacts, that something authored by an instructor is not unwelcoming of feedback and that student voice is appreciated and necessary for a shared endeavor. remikalir.com/annotatedsylla…

What I wrote before the fall term is still true: The likelihood of disruptions to the academic calendar will impact assignment due dates, planned activities, and course policies. Those changes should also be documented and discussed via #AnnotatedSyllabus remikalir.com/annotatedsylla…

Students not reading the syllabus? An #AnnotatedSyllabus is a space for Q&A. Questions will emerge and change throughout the semester, and those queries should be documented, responded to, and reexamined in a forum that is easily referenced and revisited. remikalir.com/annotatedsylla…

A syllabus is an educator’s draft vision of teaching yet enacted, a preamble to learning yet accomplished. Using an #AnnotatedSyllabus is a collaborative activity that contributes to social connectedness and community-building. An annotated syllabus is a thought-through syllabus.

How to start? All annotated syllabus blog posts and resources are curated here:

remikalir.com/annotatedsylla…

And if you create and use an annotated syllabus with your students this term, please share your thoughts and takeaways via #AnnotatedSyllabus thx!

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Remi Kalir

@remikalir

24 Oct 18

@writingproject

Announcing the 2018-19 #MarginalSyllabus!
8 months of conversation
3 organizational partners: @writingproject @ncte @hypothes_is
19 partner authors!
Join "Literacy, Equity + Remarkable Notes = LEARN"
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Thread with details, pls RT! /1

What's the #MarginalSyllabus? Since 2016, this project has convened and sustained convos with educators about equity in education through open & collaborative web annotation. You can learn more about the Marginal Syllabus, previous syllabi & research at marginalsyllab.us /2

And what's "marginal" about the #MarginalSyllabus? We partner with authors whose writing is contrary to dominant education norms, we read & annotate in the margins of online texts, and we discuss educational equity using open-source tech that's marginal to commercial edtech /3

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Remi Kalir

@remikalir

13 Aug 18

It's that time of the year & we're talking syllabi: How to create or tweak, how to co-design with students, whether or not they're a contract, what purposes they serve & whose voices are included and excluded. Here's a THREAD about ANNOTATING your syllabus with your students 1/10

@hypothes_is

A bit of context: In 2016, I started using @hypothes_is open web annotation in my courses. Students read texts together, sometimes publicly though often privately, and use H for collaborative discussion & to deepen convo around topics & ideas based upon interests & questions 2/10

@hypothes_is

In addition to collaboratively annotating texts for discussion throughout the semester, my students and I also use @hypothes_is to annotate our syllabus together. And we do so during the very first week of class. This activity serves a number of very important functions. 3/10

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2 Sep 17

This Times article "Silicon Valley Courts Brand-Name Teachers, Raising Ethics Issues" makes me want to vomit nyti.ms/2x02IyB THREAD

I'm a former NYC public schools educator. Yes, teachers are grossly underpaid, lack material resources & deserve far greater social status.

But is becoming a "brand-name" teacher a sustainable, ethical, or effective means of addressing systemic inequity in American education? No.

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