By Any Media Necessary and New Youth Activism: An Invitation to Annotate with Marginal Syllabus

Last month, in an Educator Innovator webinar titled “Growing Up American-Muslim: Challenges and Opportunities in the Classroom & Beyond,” teachers and youth convened to discuss the experiences of American-Muslim students and teachers across geographic and educational contexts. In this webinar we are joined by authors of By Any Media Necessary: The New Youth Activism (2016, NYU Press) and dive deeper into this topic by looking at a related chapter called “Storytelling and Surveillance: The Precarious Public of American Muslim Youth” in collaboration with Marginal Syllabus.

This conversation kicked off a week-long “annotathon” hosted by Marginal Syllabus, which can be viewed here.

More about Marginal Syllabus:

The Marginal Syllabus is an informal educator professional learning effort that convenes monthly annotation conversations, or “annotathons,” about issues of educational equity. Marginal Syllabus organizers partner with authors and education experts whose scholarly perspectives may be considered marginal to dominant conventions of schooling and education. The openly accessible texts of partner authors – whether book chapters or blog posts – are selected as online forums for conversation among K-12 and postsecondary educators via the open educational practices of web annotation (conversations that occur in a text’s margins). Both the individual texts where monthly dialogue occurs – and the syllabus as a cohesive, growing document – represent a dynamic conversation that seeks to open texts as contexts for educators’ interest-driven learning.

Participants for this Webinar include:

• Liana Gamber-Thompson (host), National Writing Project
• Remi Kalir (host), Assistant Professor of Information and Learning Technologies at the University of Colorado Denver School of Education and Human Development
• Henry Jenkins, Provost Professor of Communication, Journalism, Cinematic Arts and Education at the University of Southern California 
• Sangita Shresthova, Director of the Civic Paths Group at USC, co-author of By Any Media Necessary
• Joe Dillon, Teacher, Rangeview High School in Aurora Public Schools in Colorado and Denver Writing Project Teacher Consultant
• Neta Kligler-Vilenchik, Assistant Professor, Department of Communication and Journalism, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, co-author of By Any Media Necessary

Resources for this Webinar:

• Annotate, Collaborate, and Learn with Marginal Syllabus and Educator Innovator (includes full details on annotathon associated with this webinar)
• Marginal Syllabus
• By Any Media Necessary
• Hypothes.is
• Growing Up American-Muslim: Challenges and Opportunities in the Classroom & Beyond

Photo: US Embassy Tel Aviv, CC BY 2.0.