Thinking about digital social as shopping for action to take or information on the issues we care about should force us to be more
deliberate in our content creation, and then to turn to our data for how to best distribute it.
What would be great to see is Microsoft move away from just focusing on the
content creation marketplace of its traditional Office suite and instead leverage its acquisition of LinkedIn and Lynda.com to do three things: support competency - based learning — through badges, portfolios, and rich profiles for all students; invest
in building students» social capital — a key determinant of life success that education typically ignores —
in a
deliberate way; and, through both of these efforts, help students discover and cultivate their true passions.