I look to thought leaders like Anil Dash to help me see trends and to validate online experiences. Writing about a "Web Renaissance", Anil believes a rising distrust of big tech is leading to people embracing open web standards. Applying this outlook to the realm of education suggests we should make an immediate pivot back to posting things first via websites. Then we should use open standards to cross-publish into common social media platforms. Doing this would help sustain education.

Carving out our own space

I think about the distrust of big tech when I do gardening and work around the house. Back in 2019, I helped carve out a space in our back garden by removing rotting sleepers (above) from a dirt verge. We did the hard work with a pick axe, crowbar, and circular saw. Once the sleepers were removed, we built a block wall that now marks a new space behind our house. I shared a lot of what we were doing by letting my smartphone share images that I snapped during the renovation project. I own those images and I pay for online storage on Flickr where the photos can be easily shared to Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. Several hundred people see each items I share on social networks but my images on social have a half life as long as the attention span of the average viewer.

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