Remi Kalir is Associate Director of Faculty Development and Applied Research at Duke University and Associate Director of the University’s CARADITE Centre, where many wise ideas about student writing and reading are developed. Since ChatGPT first emerged, he has been working alongside students to understand the role Generative AI has and could have in their practice. He is also the author of two books on annotation as a way of linking student reading and writing, and empowering students in relation to academic texts. He finds annotation to be a ‘participatory act [that] marks public memory, struggles for justice, and social change’.
Remi and I discuss the need for ‘brave spaces’ where the purposes of education and writing can be talked about. In Remi’s words, trusting young people to work with us means being open about our own states of ‘not knowing’, before we can find collective ways ahead.
Links
Remi’s blog Remi(x)Learning https://remikalir.com/
Centre for Applied Research and Design in Transformative Education https://lile.duke.edu/caradite/: https://lile.duke.edu/caradite/
CARADITE centre’s resources for students on learning with AI: https://ai.duke.edu/ai-resources/learn-with-ai/
ReMarks on Power (2025) from MIT Press by Remi Kalir: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262551038/remarks-on-power/
Blog connected to the book: https://www.readingremarks.com/
Annotation (2021) from MIT Press by Remi Kalir and Antero Garcia: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262539920/annotation/
The hypothes.is project and software: https://web.hypothes.is/
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