If Facebook, Twitter and Instagram are the stage, then apps like Snapchat, Wickr and Confide are the new digital oasis. Places that move us from being public performers, to just being our true selves.  These apps and others like them have the ability to remove the “documentary pressure” of the web and turn it back into a regular method of conversation – one that is unavailable for third parties to hear, dissect or disseminate.  A place where we can share without scrutiny.  A place to walk between the raindrops as they say.

Read any employee review on Glassdoor.com or elsewhere and you’ll undoubtedly see a consistent refrain from current and former employees to management – “Be More Transparent.”  You’ll also hear the same thing from advisory and corporate boards, albeit a bit more pointed: “Give us the full story damnit!”

But do people really want more transparency or simply the respect and trust that are engendered when transparency is provided??

Let’s look at this from two different perspectives…

What is it that makes us build?  Compels us to seek the signal through the noise; and rather than swat its irksome buzzing, read its sign, identify its origin and race toward its conclusion?

I’ve written previously on new technologies or services in the content distribution space that scream about how disruptive they are, the new found efficiency they bring, or my personal favorite – the “democratization” of content they unleash.  Unfortunately, when you strip away the made-for-TechCrunch adjectives, we are (in many cases) simply left with a Rube-Goldberg like contraption built for one thing and one thing only – stealing someone else’s content and monetizing it.

Education must become the intersection where technology, core educational principals/theories and communication all meet.  Applied to a broad geographical footprint, and I think you have something that radically disrupts the inadequate situation we currently find ourselves in.

I could be totally wrong, but what if I’m not???