The One Thing AI Cannot Do for Your Students
More than 10 million annotations in a single academic year. Two consecutive semesters of over 5 million, a first in the history of Hypothesis, and it is happening at a […]
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AI Resistant Learning: How Social Annotation Keeps Students Genuinely Engaged
There’s a version of the AI problem in higher education that doesn’t get talked about enough. It’s not plagiarism, exactly. It’s something more structural: the growing gap between what students […]
How Can Instructors Design Active Learning Assignments in the LMS?
In many LMS-based courses, students spend most of their time consuming information quietly and independently. They read assignments alone, watch lectures alone, complete quizzes alone, and submit work alone. Even […]
What Is Annotation Based Learning?
For many students, reading in higher education can feel isolated. They are assigned articles, textbook chapters, PDFs, and research materials with the expectation that learning will happen independently before discussion […]
Why Students Stop Reading — and What Actually Brings Them Back
For many instructors, the problem is no longer finding reading materials. The problem is getting students to meaningfully engage with them. Across higher education, faculty are seeing the same patterns: […]
Why More Professors Are Replacing Discussion Boards with Social Annotation
For years, discussion boards were considered a standard part of online learning. They gave students a place to respond, reflect, and participate asynchronously. But for many instructors, especially those teaching […]
Social Annotation in Action: How Faculty Inspire Students to Read, Write, and Think More Deeply
For many faculty, the challenge is no longer simply assigning reading. The challenge is helping students actually engage with it. In an age shaped by distraction, AI-generated summaries, and surface-level […]
What Is Annotation Based Learning in Higher Education
What Is Annotation Based Learning in Higher Education Annotation based learning is an instructional approach where students engage directly with course materials by highlighting, commenting, and responding within the text […]
How Social Annotation Helps Students Verify AI Generated Content
AI-generated responses have a particular quality that makes them difficult to evaluate: they sound right even when they aren’t. The writing is fluent, the structure is confident, and the tone […]
A Simple Classroom Activity to Teach AI Verification Skills
Students are using AI tools in their academic work, and that’s not going away. What’s worth paying attention to is what happens when students use those tools uncritically — accepting […]