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Helps participants contribute to each other's learning through the social construction of communal knowledge,Appreciate the benefits of considering multiple perspectives when doing problem solving, and Provide opportunities to reflect on their own and others' thinking processes. |
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Support Distributed Collective Practices
Extend the document as a medium for the negotiation of meaning
Historically, a type of low-tech shared annotation process was widely practiced by medieval scholars who used the margins and spaces between lines of manuscripts to engage in dialogue with other readers. The same physical copy of a manuscript was passed around a community, and selected annotations (often including comments of readers on the remarks made by other readers) were customarily retained when scribes made new copies. With the arrival of the printing press, shared annotation practices largely faded away.
With the advent of hypertext, interest in shared annotation practices has revived. Today, HyLighter connects with earlier traditions of discourse by allowing communities of reader/annotators to comment on the same virtual copy of a text or image, compare views, and publish the results.
Foster a culture of learning with user-friendly communication tools
Use Hylighter to support distributed expertise, facilitate organizational inquiry and, at the same time, promote growth of individual knowledge and skills, especially learning how to learn skills.
Use HyLighter to increase engagement and promote substantive conversations among community participants.
Provide multiple opportunities to make thinking visible
Use HyLighter to support social interactions which expose participants to multiple perspectives and feedback on performance and understanding.
Build Knowledge Capital and improve knowledge management
Draw on the intellectual wealth of people within or associated with your organization. Increase organizational intelligence and improve support for decision making.