Have you heard of social annotation?

It's kind of like the annotation you used to do in a textbook or a novel with a pencil or a pen,

except now we're marking up the margins as a group on our screens with our machines.

Social annotation is actually how we edit every episode of Today Explained.

I'm Noelle King. It's Today Explained.

But you know where else social annotation is huge?

On college campuses.

Students are completing their reading assignments on social annotation apps where they can comment

and ask questions in the digital margins of a reading assignment.

And teachers can track how much time students spend with a given article, essay, or journal,

and our old friend AI will even grade students reading for teachers.

And why would teachers need these kinds of tools?

Because college kids just aren't that into reading anymore.

What on earth are we going to do about that?

Ahead on the show today.

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