22 Matching Annotations
  1. May 2021
    1. As a result, it’s incredibly easy for Internet users to make quick, harsh judgments about someone’s statements online.

      Yes.

    2. his is because empathy is crucial to understanding how people talk and behave online.

      This is so important and not taught as often or as clearly as teaching students how to distinguish fact from fiction. A great reminder.

    1. By dissecting cons and scams, students become more vigilant themselves. I encourage them to share how a person could detect that something is a scam or con.

      This is a great connection and would help make this memorable as well as authentic.

    2. but just talking is not enough. Students need experience to become effective digital citizens

      Modeling behavior is so useful, and the only thing that makes these lessons sink in.

    3. basics

      It's really helpful to lay these things out this way

    1. Plenty of free and quality resources are available to teach students what they need to know. 

      Helpful

    2. Digital citizenship for students involves:

      Great clear and useful definition.

  2. Apr 2021
    1. by figuring out their own answers to real-world problems that are relevant to their lives.

      Authenticity drives inquiry.

    2. They model ethical technology

      This is one of the most powerful tools we as educators have. Students look up to us and imitate us, even when we think they are not looking.

  3. Jan 2021
    1. One creative writing exercise might be to have students annotate in the voices of a characters from a novel being read.

      I love this!

    2. Genius.com.

      is this another annotation program?

    3. Think of the activity as creating a kind of inline Wikipedia on top of your course reading.

      Yes!

    4. It’s about as close as you can get to the intimacy of in-class interaction online

      I'd go further and say it's a bit like reading their minds (I did a blog post on this LOL)

    5. Pre-populate a text with questions for students to reply to in annotations or notes elucidating important points as they read.

      I love this idea. I have done that before but not always.

    1. Repositories like Project Gutenberg offer immediate and unlimited access to books that are no longer under copyright.

      as noted, Hypothesis is having issues with the Gutenberg site (according to an email I have from them Dec. 7.)

    2. Students may rely heavily on others’ ideas without forming their own opinions

      This can be a problem with discussion boards too, unless you have the option for students not to be able to reply unless they've posted first.

    3. can

      MSU uses a program called Perusall; I found it clunky in some ways, but it was stable

    4. an function more like a class discussion, with students reading and responding to each other’s comments.

      This is a really nice feature of it

    5. Whether or not they realize it, students practice annotation of digital texts outside of school. For example, students add filters, drawings, emojis, and writing to content they create or interact with in digital spaces such as Snapchat, Instagram, and YouTube.

      That is a great way of looking at it!

    6. and open-source full-length books.

      Hypothesis has an issue with the Gutenberg site, however, I discovered last semester. Since a lot of open-source books and plays exist there, that is a problem. (Constant crashes)

    7. How will redesigned instruction be equitable when synchronous access isn’t ubiquitous?

      This is an ongoing issue, even when schools give out Chrome books. Wifi connection affects everyone.

  4. Jun 2020
    1. who has been working in the field of online and blended learning for over 18 years now,

      That's impressive, the blend is really something new.