The Hypothesis social annotation tool is a great way to encourage critical thinking and deeper reading comprehension as your class collaborates on course documents.
You can create collaborative assignments for either the Red Light, Yellow Light or Claim/Support activity ideas from Harvard Project Zero, and utilize Hypothesis to add interactivity in a novel, engaging way!
I-Know has created an example Claim/Support activity, using the Hypothesis web version. You can view this web-based example below to see how students and instructors can collaborate as a class, adding annotations to highlighted portions of any document or webpage, and responding to the annotations of others. Hypothesis is also added to the TAMU-CC Canvas LMS as an LTI tool; you can create graded assignments in your course that will appear and function similarly to this web-based example.
Note that any hyperlinks are preserved; students potentially can evaluate how the document uses other sources it links to as support for the claims its authors have made.
View example Claim/Support Activity: 19 Surprising Red Wine Health Benefits
This example uses an article published as a webpage. Hypothesis can use the following as source documents:
See the videos below for instructions on how to create graded activities using Hypothesis in Canvas!
See how Hypothesis works from the student view, for adding annotations and replies.
See how easy it is to review and grade student responses in Hypothesis, using the native tools in Canvas Gradebook and SpeedGrader!