Higher education must reinvent how educators think about collaborative learning. To provoke change toward more democratic and equitable educational opportunities, educators must discuss what technology they need to imagine, design, and create in order to navigate today's global challenges, especially if they hope students will continue their work after they graduate. As a community of learners, educators must involve students in these conversations about deciding which devices and platforms might best achieve shared educational goals. It is not technology that creates communities; rather, communities of learners together create technology. In this article, the author shares his thoughts on how collaboration drives virtual spaces within the community of technology.