Flux article on Dopplr shift

Once again I’m getting the impression that there are some people at Futurelab who get it, or at least espouse the theory.

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So what can designers of educational software learn from Dopplr? Simply that tools exist within a wider system: that it is better to create something to do a single job well than it is to build something which does many things badly. Creating a small piece that can be loosely joined with others is truer to the spirit of the internet than building the monolithic “virtual learning environments” and closed communities that currently fill our schools and universities. That’s the true Dopplr shift: away from tools that deny their users’ previous online existence, and towards tools that fit into the way people actually live.