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Rap Genius is not just for rap, it's a platform for annotating ANY TEXT • Genius is home to hundreds of literary, historical, scientific, and musical texts--it's a free, online literature anthology or history textbook! • Students and teachers can view crowd-sourced, Wikipedia-like explanations of texts line by line • At Genius, students don't just read summaries of texts as at other “study” sites, but read the works of literature themselves alongside annotations • Explanations on Genius can include images, video, links, etc. that bring texts to life • Students and teachers can use our Glossary of Poetic Terms to explore textual examples of literary devices on the site Genius is a COLLABORATIVE ANNOTATION PLATFORM • Students and teachers can explain and suggest explanations to cla**ic works of literature and primary historical sources--if it's beautiful language, it's on Genius! (or will be soon...) • Students and teachers engage with each other and with a broader intellectual community online--it's the E-ACADEME! • Students and teachers are empowered to become knowledge producers instead of pa**ive recipients of knowledge • Students can add videos, images and links in their arguments, practicing multimedia presentations sk**s-- Genius is the evolution of the book for the "ADHD Generation" • Students can literally make an*lytic connections between various works of literature, and between cla**ic literature and popular culture and history, by hyperlinking texts on the site • The built-in Genius IQ™ feature of Genius rewards excellent annotation and high-performing students • Genius user profile pages double as student portfolios to streamline feedback and a**essment Genius can be used as a collaborative annotation platform for any text a teacher uploads to the site • Teachers can house course texts at Genius (as long as extant copies do not exist on the site) • Students access course texts online free of charge (plus free of labor, cost, and daily frustration of photocopies!) • Students can collaborate on explaining and annotating a course text online • In-cla** discussion is enriched and energized by the online forum of Genius, and the online forum continues and develops cla** discussion • Teachers and students become editors of a course text, not just readers and discussants, contributing to online public knowledge • The cla** contributes to a growing archive of texts and annotations that is the future of reading, thinking, and writing online! Genius can help students cultivate a number of TRADITIONAL ACADEMIC SKILLS such as… • Annotation • Reading Comprehension • Close Reading • Research • Literary an*lysis Genius also helps students cultivate a wide range of sk**s within the emergent field of DIGITAL LITERACY… • Multimedia Presentation • Visual Rhetoric/Visual Rhetorical an*lysis • Digital Citizenship • Expanded Audience • Social Reading, Thinking, and Writing For more information on using Genius in the cla**room, contact Jeremy Dean, Education Czar at Genius.