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Writing Our Civic Futures (December): Bringing Students’ Lives to the...
Our December edition of Writing Our Civic Futures, our annotation collaboration with Marginal Syllabus, explores...
Writing Our Civic Futures, a collaborative project of the National Writing Project and Marginal Syllabus for the 2017-2018 academic year, invited educators to a year of social reading, collaborative web annotation, and public conversation exploring our civic imaginations and literacy landscapes. As civic engagement changes and evolves, Writing Our Civic Futures considers the implications for connected learning and teaching.
Writing Our Civic Futures: Marginal Syllabus 2017-18
In this collaboration, we partnered with—and draw texts from—a range of educators, youth, scholars, media makers and journalists to think about the landscape of civic engagement and education while imagining ways that we can engage ourselves and our students as writers and makers of our civic futures. This project leverages the web annotation platform Hypothes.is, adding multiple voices to critical conversations about equity and education.
Even though this syllabus is past, we invite you to use it and its related texts and annotations as resources. All texts remain annotatable and the syllabus will take you to them along with related author conversations.
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The National Writing Project (NWP), the founder of the Educator Innovator Initiative, is a network of educators and dedicated practitioners working together to improve practice with an eye toward young people as producers. The NWP envisions a future where every person is an accomplished writer and maker, not just a passive consumer.
hypothes.is is an online annotation platform and a nonprofit advocating for open standards in web annotation. hypothes.is collaborates with educators to make use of annotation technology in the classroom and help students become critical readers and knowledge producers on the open web.