"There's all this talk about participatory education to give students more of a role in their own learning and make them more involved, and this is a step there, where they can annotate the documents themselves and leave their marks on the walls of history,"
Amanda Holpuch (Ft. Louis Lafair & Tom Lehman) – 'We’re trying to make Rap Genius into Everything Genius'
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On Genius, students by necessity actively engage with the texts they are studying and with each other. In doing so, they trouble the idea of expertise and who has the authority to speak about certain subjects.
One way that the site emphasizes this is by referring to every user on the site as a “scholar.”
