Prism is a tool for “crowdsourcing text interpretations.” Students use different colors of digital highlighters to annotate text that is added to Prism by the teacher. The colors of the highlighters correspond with different categories that the teacher has prescribed for the text analysis. As students are highlighting the text, a visual representation is created that demonstrates the combined interpretation of the text in different text colors and different font sizes. The idea of Prism is to reveal patterns that exist in the subjective reading of text. Although it sounds complicated, Prism could be used by all grade levels and various content areas. The categories that the teacher sets for highlighting could be as complicated as detecting the author’s tone, or as simple as distinguishing fact from opinion. Some other ideas for categories to highlight could be detecting different emotions, locating key words or vocabulary, establishing themes, locating parts of speech or other literary elements. Any text that can be copy and pasted can be added to Prism. Check out the demo video on their website for more information, http://prism.scholarslab.org/.
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