Wouldn’t be Christmas morning without Jewish Holiday Origami, what else are you going to do with all that wrapping paper?

It’s the first night of Hanukkah and the world seems like a very dark place. But we can bring light to the darkness. We can fight for each other and make goodness, love, and community shine through. Show me your menorahs and let’s light up the timeline!

Lego blocks > chatbots (as I cook dinner and hear my six-year old son lost in imagination, play, and creatively shaped dinosaur builds)

I spoke with The Globe and Mail about the lawsuit being over and the concerns that caused me to speak out. Gift link: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/4e12d7e...

From classrooms to civic spaces, every note is a moment of meaning. 🎧 Listen to Re/Marks on Power: https://twp.ai/SACdKa #OpenEducation #Annotation #CivicLiteracy #OpenAccess 2/2

It was a pleasure speaking with @cogdog.bsky.social about #annotation and my latest book "Re/Marks on Power" from @mitpress.bsky.social, have a listen!

As visual summaries of primary sources, Google NotebookLM infographics are AI slop akin to ultraprocessed food manufactured in a lab to maximize consumption at the expense of nourishment. As a scholar and educator I’ll pass on this ultraprocessed facsimile of knowledge: remikalir.com/blog/noteboo...

It’s 6:38 AM and I can report with confidence that any benefit from this lovely Sunday morning sunrise is negated by a six-year old who demanded cereal an hour ago, has crashed two sets of Lego down the stairs, and is now eating Halloween candy because why not, who can parent after Daylight Savings!

threw my back out washing dishes this morning because age

Friends! I wanted to make sure you saw that @writinglit.bsky.social is having a #Literacies Chat Homecoming on 10/28 at 7PM ET. I hope you can come! *Black tie optional @dontworryteach.bsky.social @remikalir.bsky.social @srtoliver.bsky.social @anterobot.bsky.social @sarahlw.bsky.social

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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

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: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255103... Subscribe to my newsletter: www.readingremarks.com And learn more about my work at: remikalir.com

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.

😡 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...

😡 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?

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. www.routledge.com/Literacies-i...

Check it @remikalir.bsky.social

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...

📨 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...

📨 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.

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...

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 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...

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...

!sTUdentS Don'T rEAD! !StUDEnts dON't Read! A new rant from me about why the "students don't read" discourse is easily weaponized with harmful implications. Because a student struggling to comprehend a text, struggling to read, is also a learner with many literacies. remikalir.com/blog/a-stude...

!sTUdentS Don'T rEAD! !StUDEnts dON't Read! A new rant from me about why the "students don't read" discourse is easily weaponized with harmful implications. Because a student struggling to comprehend a text, struggling to read, is also a learner with many literacies. remikalir.com/blog/a-stude...

I’m heading into the summer favoring complexity and nuance as I navigate my unfolding relationship with generative AI and, more importantly, honor my long-standing relationships with really smart, passionate, and creative colleagues. My latest post on AI and learning: remikalir.com/blog/on-ai-a...

With a series of vivid and wide-ranging cases, @remialir.bsky.social reconceptualizes annotation as more than just marginalia and underlining, but a way of writing back to power. "Re\Marks on Power" is available now and #openaccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255103...

New from me: "On AI and Learning at the End of an Academic Year" A bit about yesterday's article, a bit about what I did this past year, and my call for greater complexity and nuance—please read and share. #AcademicSky #EduSky #HigherEd #AcademicChatter #Teaching #AI remikalir.com/blog/on-ai-a...

New from me: "On AI and Learning at the End of an Academic Year" A bit about yesterday's article, a bit about what I did this past year, and my call for greater complexity and nuance—please read and share. #AcademicSky #EduSky #HigherEd #AcademicChatter #Teaching #AI remikalir.com/blog/on-ai-a...

Since everyone is talking about it... Yes, I read the Times article "Professors Are Using ChatGPT, and Some Students Aren’t Happy About It." And yes, I have thoughts. So I wrote a little bit on my blog as a response: "On AI and Learning at the End of an Academic Year" remikalir.com/blog/on-ai-a...

I love this piece and now I'm thinking about a tattoo. "It’s OK to not know; isn’t that why we’re in school?!"

Since everyone is talking about it... Yes, I read the Times article "Professors Are Using ChatGPT, and Some Students Aren’t Happy About It." And yes, I have thoughts. So I wrote a little bit on my blog as a response: "On AI and Learning at the End of an Academic Year" remikalir.com/blog/on-ai-a...

Co-sign, as I have done at: www.readingremarks.com

Infuriating

One hundred and thirty years ago, today, Harriet Tubman added her mark to an affidavit. In "Re/Marks on Power," my new book from @mitpress.bsky.social, I share her story as an annotator. Her marks were an act of resistance. Her marks were an act of recognition. www.readingremarks.com/remarks-on-h...

One hundred and thirty years ago, today, Harriet Tubman added her mark to an affidavit. In "Re/Marks on Power," my new book from @mitpress.bsky.social, I share her story as an annotator. Her marks were an act of resistance. Her marks were an act of recognition. www.readingremarks.com/remarks-on-h...

ICYMI, new book, open access, it’s a great day to share and read!

End your weekend with a free book! "Re/Marks on Power" is now open access, featuring Tubman's annotated Civil War pension file, the US-Mexico border as a marked boundary, blood-splattered Confederate monuments, and librarians defacing books to celebrate trans stories. direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...