Over the past four years, the Marginal Syllabus has learned a lot about how to bring people together\u2014often at a distance, and often over extended periods of time\u2014to read together, think together, and share in the exchange of ideas that matter to literacy, learning, and educational equity. Not familiar with our project? Since 2016, the Marginal Syllabus has sparked and sustained public conversation about educational equity through collaborative technologies and partnerships. We\u2019ve facilitated public discussion that has engaged hundreds of educators, we\u2019ve partnered with dozens of authors, and we\u2019ve relied upon the strengths of organizational partners to make consequential conversations accessible and meaningful. Now, more so than ever, it is critical that we draw upon lessons our team has learned to advance social reading in a time of social distance.<\/p>\n
Amidst the ever-changing uncertainty of the Coronavirus pandemic, our team is committed to fostering opportunities for social connection despite the need for social (and physical) distance. While the daily news is undoubtedly overwhelming, there persists a need to engage in activities unrelated to this crisis for the sake of our intellectual and emotional well-being. Furthermore, as many educators—in both K-12 and higher education settings—move their teaching and learning activities into so-called \u201cremote\u201d and online formats, we believe it is useful to model some of the lower-tech, highly-collaborative, and rich learning opportunities that have defined the Marginal Syllabus over the past few years.<\/p>\n
We invite you to join us for a series of four synchronous social reading activities that extend Marginal Syllabus conversations from both the 2018-19 and 2019-2020 Literacy, Equity + Remarkable Notes = LEARN syllabi. LEARN is an ongoing collaboration among the National Writing Project, the National Council of Teachers of English, and Hypothesis.<\/p>\n
Join us for four synchronous social reading opportunities, something our team has previously referred to as annotation \u201cflash mobs.\u201d We will be using the collaborative annotation technology Hypothesis. And you can join us via Zoom, too, to talk live as we read and annotate together.<\/p>\n