Marginal Syllabus

Curatorial note from Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities: Digital annotation can expand our understanding of what is possible when we read together. The social annotation tool Hypothesis facilitates the act of shared reading. It leverages group annotation to enable sentence-level critique and multimodal note-taking on any text found on the Internet. An example of the networked use of this tool comes from Marginal Syllabus, which hosts monthly “annotatathons” on preselected articles. The 2017–18 Syllabus was co-organized with the National Writing Project. Students can participate in any of the scheduled annotatathons and experience networked learning in action, discussing articles with other students and educators globally. The Marginal Syllabus is a multistakeholder collaboration between Hypothesis, a nonprofit organization building an open platform for discussion on the Web; Aurora Public Schools in Aurora, Colorado; and researchers and teacher educators from the University of Colorado Denver School of Education and Human Development in Denver, Colorado

Pedagogy for Librarians

Most librarians are required to take classes on reference, collection development, and information organization in library school; courses on pedagogy, on the other hand, are usually optional, if they’re offered at all. This leads most librarians who end up with instruction duties to learn on the job. Activities and assessments can be learned on the fly fairly easily, but these often have little to no bearing on how much students actually absorb and recall weeks later because alone, they are usually insufficient to ensure deep learning. This chapter seeks to add the basics of pedagogy, a subject comprehensively covered in K-12 teacher preparation programs, to the librarian’s instructional repertoire