In the talk with Dr. Remi Kalir of Duke University, Kalir takes a deep dive into social annotation and how social annotation is an important component in gaining competence in digital literacy. Kalir discusses how social annotation interworks individual collaboration with others as a means to make understanding of different forms of media in a way that individuals are able to understand what they are viewing together. In society, we see many different forms of annotation from unexpected places, such as physical and academic annotations. In using these various forms of annotation, we are able to collaboratively express our perspectives on different forms of media. When individuals are able to socially annotate, it allows for engagement and understanding in both academic and individual areas.
From the talk, the most interesting part I found was Dr. Kalir’s perspective of how AI influences social annotation. From what I understood, Kali’s stance on the use of AI in social annotation is overall poor. When using AI in social annotation, there is an evident lack of human’s critical perspective, which ultimately defeats the point of socially annotating. This defeats the point because you are not coming to a common understanding because you are not giving individualized thoughts and ideas on the media you are viewing. In knowing this, when socially annotating for the rest of this class and in my future endeavours, I will ensure that I will do this without the help of AI. Over the course of this class, we have learned that AI can have many positive impacts in different areas, where tasks can be streamlined to help productivity. Also throughout my time in this class, we have learned that sometimes AI aren’t the best tools to use. My takeaway from all of this is that through my time gaining digital literacy, it is important to know when to and when to not use different online applications.
After watching the talk with Dr. Remi Kalir and reading my blog post, I invite you to share your thoughts with me. Do you have previous experience socially annotating? If so, have you found that socially annotating has given you the ability to understand what you are annotating better? Let me know!
Sources/Articles Consulted
University of Victoria EDCI 136- Remi Kalir on Social Annotation
https://www.edutopia.org/article/social-annotation-digital-age/ – Christophe Heylen/ iStock