Why Learning Suffers Without Engagement — Even With AI
AI has made it easier than ever for students to move quickly. Summaries appear instantly. Drafts sound polished. Assignments get completed faster than ever before. But faster work is not […]
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What the Age of AI Is Teaching Us About Student Reading
AI is everywhere in higher education right now. From writing assistants to automated feedback, the tools are evolving quickly—and instructors are understandably asking what this shift means for how students […]
How to Foster Richer Discussions on Your Site with Hypothesis
Embedding Hypothesis over your site’s content helps increase user engagement with your content, brings more viewers to the page, and can offer valuable commentary and feedback. When you embed Hypothesis, […]
Changes to Via, Hypothesis’ proxy server for annotation
As part of our mission to enable conversations over the world’s knowledge, Hypothesis created a new service in 2015 called Via, to reduce friction for people sharing and viewing annotations. […]
Teaching the Process, Not the Product
Grades are easy to measure. Learning is not. When higher education started worrying about AI, the focus turned quickly to control. How do we know what’s “authentic”? How do we […]
Make D2L Grading Easier with the Hypothesis Max Points Feature
Setting up graded Hypothesis readings in D2L just got simpler. The Hypothesis LMS app already allows you to create content items that launch Hypothesis alongside your documents, letting students annotate […]
AI Detection Won’t Save Education. Connection Will.
AI Detection Won’t Save Education. Connection Will. The past year has seen a wave of new tools promising to detect whether student work was generated by AI. On the surface […]
Stay Connected to Every Annotation with Unanchored Annotations
If you’re a regular Hypothesis user, you’ve probably come across an “Orphan”; an annotation that’s lost the text it was originally anchored to on the page. This can happen when […]
Students Are Telling Us They Feel Invisible. We Should Listen.
Every week, another story surfaces about what it feels like to learn in the shadow of AI. The one that stuck with me most recently came from Maclean’s: a student […]
Classroom Tip: Image Annotation Jams to Build Critical Thinking Skills with Visual Analysis
A common warm-up activity in humanities courses is visual analysis. In this exercise, instructors share an image related to the day’s topic or theme and invite students to examine it […]