November 18, 2018 | 2018 NCTE Annual Convention | Houston, TX
Joe Dillon | Remi Kalir
The Marginal Syllabus
Educators annotating the web as professional development about educational equity
Christina Cantrill | Jeremy Dean
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@onewheeljoe | @remikalir
@Seecantrill | @dr_jdean
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Annotate with your comment, question, or drawing
in response to our Marginal Syllabus reading “Electing to Heal” (2018) by Antero Garcia and Elizabeth Dutro
We write, then, not to bemoan the partisan differences that fracture U.S. civic discourse but to recognize the increased stakes for students and families who were already marginalized in the United States and to address the needs of all students in our English classrooms today. (p. 376)
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Annotate with your comment, question, or drawing
in response to our Marginal Syllabus reading “Electing to Heal” (2018) by Antero Garcia and Elizabeth Dutro
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Teachers are generally not prepared to address the intersections of healing, politics, and emotion in today’s classrooms. (p. 376)
Annotate with your comment, question, or drawing
in response to our Marginal Syllabus reading “Electing to Heal” (2018) by Antero Garcia and Elizabeth Dutro
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The nuances of a “safe space” for SEL [social emotional learning] in our classrooms requires looking across social, political, and cultural factors for all members of a school community. (p. 378)
Annotate with your comment, question, or drawing
in response to our Marginal Syllabus reading “Electing to Heal” (2018) by Antero Garcia and Elizabeth Dutro
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SEL must address what it means to cultivate belonging in a broken world. (p. 378)
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… take a moment to think about your experience…
What do you notice while annotating in response to your quote?
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… exchange, share, and reply…
exchange your annotation
with a �neighbor
and reply verbally or on paper
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… take another moment to think about your experience…
What do you notice about sharing annotations?
What do you notice about your neighbor’s response?
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The four quotes below are links. Click on any quote to access the “Electing to Heal” conversation online and read the Hypothesis annotations - and replies - associated with the selected quote.
We write, then, not to bemoan the partisan differences that fracture U.S. civic discourse but to recognize the increased stakes for students and families... (p. 376)
Teachers are generally not prepared to address the intersections of healing, politics, and emotion in today’s classrooms. (p. 376)
The nuances of a “safe space” for SEL [social emotional learning] in our classrooms requires looking across social, political, and cultural factors for all members of a school community. (p. 378)
SEL must address what it means to cultivate belonging in a broken world. (p. 378)
bit.ly/marsylncte18
Let’s discuss our introductory annotation activity.
geeky book club | equity conversations
#marginalsyllabus
The Marginal Syllabus utilizes open web annotation to convene and sustain conversations with educators about equity in teaching, learning, and education
#marginalsyllabus
marginal: educators engage with perspectives that are contrary to dominant education narratives, “counternarratives” to status quo about schooling
perspectives
Click a topic to read the full annotation conversation
marginal: educators conversation among text-participants and partner authors occurs in the margins of online texts using Hypothesis OWA
discursive spaces
reply
reply
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annotation
marginal: educators adopt a tool (Hypothesis) on the margins of formal ed tech; we support educator use of open-source technology for their learning
technology
open web annotation (OWA):
open standards, open principles, open practices
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“Writing Our Civic Futures”
13 partner authors, 9 conversations, 87 participants
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“Literacy, Equity + Remarkable Notes = LEARN”
19 partner authors, 8 conversations
Our research indicates:
Collaborative annotation conversations are an everyday and disruptive media practice with implications for scholarly publication, openness, and politics (Kalir & Dean, 2018).
Collaborative annotation supports educators’ connected conversations in computer supported collaborative learning (Perez & Kalir, 2018).
The Marginal Syllabus is an example of an educational partnership that successfully architects educators’ interest-driven learning (Kalir, 2018a).
The Marginal Syllabus advances an equity-oriented approach to the design of open computer supported collaborative learning (Kalir, 2018b).
The Marginal Syllabus mediates educators’ collaboration and professionally-relevant learning across sociopolitical texts-as-contexts (Kalir & Perez, 2019).
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Join our current “Electing to Heal” conversation:
November Conversation
Follow LEARN conversations throughout 2018-19:
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