Nothing is more important to learning than to read. Nothing is more important to reading than annotating.
One of the repeated testimonials from professors using Hypothesis is that collaborative annotation lets them know that students have done it. There is a trace of their presence in the text. Benefits:
Active
Deep reading
Collaboration
Discussion
Dynamic Portafolios
Students that are annotating together are collaborating deeply, learning to work together to both comprehend information and create knowledge in ways that can be applied beyond reading a course material.
Part of a larger mission
Empowering students as knowledge producers within and beyond the classroom.
Empowering intellectual conversation and civic participation across the web.
Students learn to become engaged readers and thinkers, knowledge producers, collaborators.