by Michael Hernandez | Dec 10, 2025 | Instructional design, Updates
Hypothesis, UChicago’s tool for social annotation, now includes additional features to help instructors encourage deeper reading among students and set the stage for more meaningful class discussions. Users familiar with Hypothesis or other social annotation tools may...
by Michael Hernandez | Dec 2, 2025 | Pedagogy
“A reading list is both the heart that animates a course of study and the skeleton on which the course is built.” – William Germano and Kit Nicholls, Syllabus: The Remarkable, Unremarkable Document That Changes Everything While students engaging deeply with...
by Michael Hernandez | Nov 6, 2023 | Events, Try IT
This post is part of an ongoing series to promote active learning strategies and teaching tools that can support instructors in using them. Since last Spring, Academic Technology Solutions (ATS) has hosted the new active learning series Try IT: Academic Tech for...
by Michael Hernandez | Aug 3, 2023 | Instructional design
Looking for a way to explore new teaching approaches on a busy schedule? UChicago’s partner for social annotation, Hypothesis, offers an opportunity to read about, discuss, and design using new pedagogical ideas on an asynchronous basis that allows you to participate...
by Michael Hernandez | Feb 8, 2023 | Instructional design, Uncategorized
ATS instructional designer Thomas Keith and digital pedagogy fellow Sarah McDaniel contributed content to this article. If you’re an instructor who values the idea of writing-to-learn in your pedagogy, recent news of higher-quality AI-generated writing may have you...