Remi Kalir

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Everyday #annotation as resistance to techno-dystopian futures!

Talk about public re/marks of resistance! @remikalir.bsky.social

Awesome! #annotation

“Inviting commentary turns a static course document into a living conversation. Students ask clarifying questions, highlight confusions, and voice what matters to them—all while signaling that learning will sometimes be a co-constructed endeavor.”

#AnnotatedSyllabus

Re/Marks on Power Annotation—the seemingly simple act of marking a text—is often diminished as a marginal practice. It is prohibited in physical objects and considered irr...

Hey yall, lots of new followers (huh? ok!), a few links if you’d like to connect.

I recently wrote a book about annotation and power, it’s open-access, read it here:
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I love this type of public practice so much, because it’s so simple, so routine, and so visually effective—not to mention necessary and true!

#annotation

I'm here for annotation as counter-storytelling - and an annotation activity like this is something teachers and students can do together to analyze the rhetorical moves in Big Tech press releases about AI in education too.

Re/Marks on "Restoring Truth" Anticipating censorship, what will become of the annotated Path to Preservation timeline at Muir Woods National Monument?

😡 Called it, sadly. As reported yesterday in the NYTimes, an annotated sign at Muir Woods National Monument has been censored and removed.

Annotation isn't neutral. Nor are responses to notes of power.

The annotated sign may be gone, but history won't change.
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Re/Marks on "Restoring Truth" Anticipating censorship, what will become of the annotated Path to Preservation timeline at Muir Woods National Monument?

😡 Called it, sadly. As reported yesterday in the NYTimes, an annotated sign at Muir Woods National Monument has been censored and removed.

Annotation isn't neutral. Nor are responses to notes of power.

The annotated sign may be gone, but history won't change.
www.readingremarks.com/remarks-on-r...

"#Annotation enables the production of new forms of public dialogue and paratext in response to other people..., texts..., and ideas...that are of social and political consequence." - @remikalir.bsky.social and @anterobot.bsky.social.

Authors in Part 3 include: @remikalir.bsky.social, Emily Southerton, Shelley E. Rose, Molly Buckley-Marudas, Calida O'Brien, @drtanksley.bsky.social.

The book explores how digital platforms are remaking the study, teaching, and practice of literacy—and the implications for educational equity.

What does it mean when the same platforms that enable powerful forms of networked reading/writing also enroll those literacies in extractive data regimes?

Cover of the book, Literacies in the Platform Society: Histories, Pedagogies, and Possibilities, edited by T. Philip Nichols and Antero Garcia, and published in the 'Expanding Literacies in Education' series at Routledge.

Text from the Table of the Contents. List of Figures, List of Tables, Contributor Biographies, Series Editors’ Introduction, Acknowledgments. Introduction: Literacies in the Platform Society by T. Philip Nichols and Antero Garcia PART I — Histories New Towers of Babel: A Conceptual Argument for Digital Platforms as Unstable Linguistic Constructs by Tom Liam Lynch and Mark A. Sulzer Literacy as a Framework for Computing Education: Affordances, Constraints, and New Directions by Jennifer Higgs, Sepehr Vakil and Charles Logan Waiting on the Platform: The Journey to and From Manuscript Central by Cathy Burnett and Guy Merchant

Table of contents, continued. Racialized Labor and Digital Sites of Struggle on Asian American College YouTube by Sonia Kim Rethinking Affordances and Constraints in the Platform Era by Bradley Robinson PART II - Pedagogies Teachers’ Use of Technological Applications and Platforms: Classroom Management, Data Literacy,and Unexpected Labor by Jessica Zacher Pandya and Gwen Shaffer Human and Non-human Agency in Elementary Literacy Classrooms: Examining ClassDojo as Part of Pedagogical Practice by Evie Poyiadji and Stavroula Kontovourki Platforms as Texts: Restorying Platforms as Collective Resistance by Amy Stornaiuolo and Ebony Elizabeth Thomas Proceduralized Ideologies in Teacher Education: An Analysis of Student Teaching Simulation Software by Earl Aguilera and Mighty Chen Transforming Pedagogies Across Digital Platforms: Playgrid Ecologies as Sites of Emergent Identities and Literacies for Pre-service Teachers by José Ramón Lizárraga, Arturo Cortez, and Kaitlin Baca

Table of contents, continued. Part 3 - Possibilities As We May Mark by Remi Kalir Reimagining Digital Social Platforms and Youth Agency in Schools: Youth Participatory Design Research as an Agentic Curricular Approach by Emily Southerton Between Structure and Collective Care: A Humanizing Approach to Resource Curation by Shelley E. Rose, Mary Frances (Molly) Buckley-Marudas and Calida O’Brien Toward a Critical Race Algorithmic Literacy: Preparing Black Youth to “Talk Back” to Algorithmic Bias and Platformed Racism by Tiera Tanksley Afterword: Some Theoretical and Methodological Notes on Platform Literacies by Kris Gutiérrez Index

Literacies in the Platform Society: Histories, Pedagogies, and Possibilities—edited by me and @anterobot.bsky.social—is out today! 🎉

It's been an absolute privilege to work with so many brilliant people, over multiple years, to make this book a reality.

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Marginalia mania: how ‘annotating’ books went from big no-no to BookTok’s next trend Readers are sharing how they write their predictions into novels, colour-code their emotional responses and even gift annotated books to friends. Is it actually fun, or just a bit like homework?

Check it @remikalir.bsky.social

Always nice to see these kinds of articles when they pop up

Great commentary that echoes my post from earlier this week on the NPS, censorship, history, and the current administration’s so-called “restoring truth” efforts.

What will become of the annotated Path to Preservation timeline at Muir Woods National Monument? www.readingremarks.com/remarks-on-r...

Re/Marks on "Restoring Truth" Anticipating censorship, what will become of the annotated Path to Preservation timeline at Muir Woods National Monument?

📨 My latest in Reading Re/Marks on censorship and truth:

What will become of an annotated timeline at Muir Woods National Monument?

www.readingremarks.com/remarks-on-r...

Re/Marks on "Restoring Truth" Anticipating censorship, what will become of the annotated Path to Preservation timeline at Muir Woods National Monument?

📨 My latest in Reading Re/Marks on censorship and truth:

What will become of an annotated timeline at Muir Woods National Monument?

www.readingremarks.com/remarks-on-r...

“Did your dad die?” our six-year old son asked me this morning.

“No,” I replied, “But I don’t talk to him. He didn’t raise me. Who raised me?”

“Grandma Wendy.”

Father’s Day is becoming a bit more nuanced in our family and I don’t take it for granted that Ade and I can make sense of this together.

#annotation

so sorry, Kevin, ❤️

A “Students Don’t Read” Rant Yes, some discrete “students don’t read” observations are true. And, this discourse is easily weaponized with harmful implications.Perpetuating “students don’t read” amplifies deficit narratives ab…

New on my blog: A “Students Don’t Read” Rant

A student struggling to comprehend a text, struggling to read, is also a learner with many literacies.

A student resistant to reading, refusing a book, is also a learner with many literacies.

remikalir.com/blog/a-stude...

A “Students Don’t Read” Rant Yes, some discrete “students don’t read” observations are true. And, this discourse is easily weaponized with harmful implications.Perpetuating “students don’t read” amplifies deficit narratives ab…

Yes, some discrete “students don’t read” observations are true. And, this discourse is easily weaponized with harmful implications.

Here's my latest blog post:

remikalir.com/blog/a-stude...

A “Students Don’t Read” Rant Yes, some discrete “students don’t read” observations are true. And, this discourse is easily weaponized with harmful implications.Perpetuating “students don’t read” amplifies deficit narratives ab…

A student who may not want to read what’s assigned in school, who may not display conventional behaviors of academic performance, is also a learner who will share their many literacies with trusted friends and mentors.

Full post:

remikalir.com/blog/a-stude...

You're very welcome, Kevin!

A “Students Don’t Read” Rant Yes, some discrete “students don’t read” observations are true. And, this discourse is easily weaponized with harmful implications.Perpetuating “students don’t read” amplifies deficit narratives ab…

A student who may not want to read what’s assigned in school, who may not display conventional behaviors of academic performance, is also a learner who will share their many literacies with trusted friends and mentors.

Full post:

remikalir.com/blog/a-stude...

A student struggling to comprehend a text, struggling to read, is also a learner with many literacies.

A student resistant to reading, refusing a book, is also a learner with many literacies.

Literacies are mediated by different languages, customs, and technologies. As language practices, and cultural norms, and digital technologies change, so too do our learners’ multimodal literacies.

Please, please, please let’s remember that: