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D'Arcy Norman, Mar 24, 2023

Some pointed questions from D'Arcy Norman. Do we really need a 'domain of our own' in education? How far down the tech stack must we go? "I love being able to have some level of control over as much of what I do online as I want to," he writes, "However, I'm also acutely aware of the drain that running this stuff can place on a person." It's not about the infrastructure. "The real shift isn't in publishing digital content. It isn't in moving to eLearning. The real shift is that of individual control over their (our) own learning... if we're all shifting to take more control over our learning, society needs individuals that want to learn. That's the crux. Not cyberinfrastructure. Not digital content. Not software, nor data, nor feeds, nor any of that crap. We need to learn. We need to want to learn." I don't think I fully agree with this reasoning.

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