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Oct 12 14 tweets 11 min read
Nice piece in today's @insidehighered: “With Online Social Annotation, Students Read Together” by @susan_dagostino. It's a useful summary of recent #annotation and learning trends with great quotes from colleagues. Want additional context and resources? 🧵insidehighered.com/news/2022/10/1…
First, the IHE piece reviews a 2022 study co-authored w/ @EstebanMoralesV @FleerackersA & @juancommander. The study looked at undergrad students' knowledge construction when they participate in @hypothes_is social #annotation. It's #OpenAccess read it here ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
Our 2022 study extended a prior Kalir et al. 2020 article that found undergrad students across courses had favorable perceptions of social #annotation, specifically about positive contributions to their course community and learning. Read an open preprint: osf.io/nc5vs/
I mention both studies because we grounded our work in learning theory, we used (& shared!) reliable instruments, and we carefully analyzed data (ie rater reliability). Lots of social #annotation research right now that doesn't do any of that. The field writ large must do better.
Second, the IHE piece notes "Instead of students engaging in discussions about a text in a corner of a [LMS], they congregate over the source itself." This is "anchored" discussion. The text is a discursive context. More on texts-as-contexts for learning: firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/…
Third: “Students have long marked up texts to make sense of reading.” And to make sense of writing, too! A nice complement to this IHE piece is a great CHE essay on #annotation and learning by @LangOnCourse that reviews my book "Annotation" with @anterobot chronicle.com/article/annota…
Fourth: "Social annotation activities may also redress instances of inequity." "May," maybe? There's a link to a blog post that references a great article by Brown & Croft (2020). I love that article. It proposes a framework for pedagogy. It's not an empirical study of learning.
Since the #MarginalSyllabus started in '16 I've written a lot about how #annotation relates to educational equity (if at all!) inside and outside of classrooms. In our book, @anterobot & I address power, that's a more useful way to discuss complex dynamics remikalir.com/annotation-mit…
Async convos do expand how students talk online (not unique to social #annotation). And social annotation can help students elicit new perspectives and engage in productive conflict. But advocates should promote evidence of learning, claims about equitable outcomes not there yet.
Fifth: "Faculty members who adopt the tools specifically for autograding features may be disappointed." YES! Social #annotation isn't immune from unnecessary student surveillance and use of algorithms in learning. See @Jenae_Cohn and me in @hechingerreport hechingerreport.org/opinion-why-we…
Sixth, the piece does a good job addressing some limitations of social #annotation and mentions practical guidance for instructors. For additional examples of practice see the #LiquidMargins podcast from @hypothes_is such an invaluable pedagogical resource web.hypothes.is/liquid-margins/
Another practical place to start with social #annotation? Your course syllabus! Make it a GDoc and then mark it up. I've advocated that courses feature an interactive #AnnotatedSyllabus for years, you can read some of my latest thinking and strategies here remikalir.com/blog/annotate-…
Coincidence: This IHE piece came out just a day after @hypothes_is published a white paper I wrote titled "The Value of Social Annotation for Teaching and Learning." It provides background on social #annotation, reviews research and features testimonials: web.hypothes.is/research-white…
And really glad the IHE piece mentions the new project between @JSTOR and @hypothes_is (thanks to support from @ITHAKA_org), as there's a lot of potential for exciting developments in teaching and research. Yes to more #annotation and conversation over the world's knowledge! /end

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Mar 9, 2021
March 9, 2020 was my last day on campus. To celebrate my one-year anniversary of working from home, here’s a list of all the articles I’ve published. A 🧵 about 📝
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Jan 4, 2021
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…
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Sep 8, 2020
For #literacy educators, teacher educators & researchers participating in #ScholarStrike some curated resources from the #MarginalSyllabus project including blog posts, author webinars & annotated articles about the lives and #literacies of Black learners and educators. Thread >
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In “What’s Radical about Youth Writing?: Seeing and Honoring Youth Writers & Their Literacies” @MarcelleHaddix describes her work with young writers leveraging their stories & voices to advance critical cultural conversations educatorinnovator.org/learn-with-mar… #ScholarStrike #CiteBlackWomen
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Oct 24, 2018
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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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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Aug 13, 2018
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
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
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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Sep 2, 2017
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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