Bring your students together with social reading

Engage your students in social reading, a pedagogical practice that uses collaborative annotation to make reading active, visible, and social. Hypothesis annotation enables students and teachers to have conversations in the margins of digital texts, helping build community, discussion, critical thinking, and a deeper understanding of readings in classrooms, on campus, and online. Drop us a line below if you’re interested in testing out Hypothesis in your learning management system (LMS), or if you’d simply like to learn more.

Hypothesis makes reading…

Active

“Hypothesis enables my students to contribute to the conversation whether they are frequent participants or the type that like to sit back and think before responding. I can’t call on every student, but by annotating together we can all join in the conversation.”

Sarah Gross, English Teacher, High Technology High School

Visible

“I loved using Hypothesis to annotate class readings — it was especially helpful when annotating with my classmates because they made extremely insightful comments that made me think more critically about the passage.”

Anonymous Student

Social

“I will have students who don’t like to speak in groups, but when they get into Hypothesis they drive conversation, they drive discourse, and they’ll have all of their peers jumping on to comment and engage in ways that just don’t happen in the classroom.”

Justin Cerenzia, History Teacher, St. George’s School

Watch this demo on how middle and high school teachers can use social annotation in class.