Online classrooms are NOT a democratic space. Never was, never will be. Not with a device, not with a connection. Not with all the $$$ in the world. Not in public education. Not for the masses. 1/5 https://twitter.com/maritstiles/status/1248943232622485504

Face-to-face, bodies mediate knowledge, encourage shared perceptions of time/space and collective meaning systems.

Technology may improve students' access to formal education, but requires a corporate mediator, surveillance, and technical knowledge. We can not compel it. 2/5

What happens to the hidden curriculum online? Face-to-face, teachers have an opportunity to disrupt single-perspective worldviews and MODEL anti-oppression practice in the classroom.

Online, social justice work is disciplined and "standardized" under surveillance. 3/5

Face-to-face is a struggle over the production of norms. This includes how bodies "present". It is NOT in and of itself accessible, but it is the only space where we can struggle over access and equity meaningfully.

We must begin here, in struggle. 4/5

Teaching and learning is a site of struggle, always.

There is no neutral space; it is the people and practice, power and institutions, that shape space. We must interrogate it, especially online. 5/5