Digital technology is becoming increasingly common in education and can be applied to every type of classroom learning. Several educators using a flipped and/or blended teaching strategy are taking advantage of social annotation platforms to read digital textbook content. This allows students to interactively annotate and discuss the material before each class. Thus, tools and techniques to help us use these social annotation platforms, like Perusall, have never been more important to learn about and share.
Perusall’s software includes various constructs to help engage students, including avatars, sectioning, and upvoting. Studies have shown with the use of Perusall, students perform significantly better on exams than students using a simple annotation tool without some of the social and machine learning features.
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2/13/2020