Notes from Friday, April 3rd Zoom Session

1. Today’s Line Up
Throat Clearing!
The Game?
Elf of the Shelf?
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2. 1. What’s the good news & bad
news about being here today?
2. What were some of your most
favorite outdoors games you
played as a child?
3. What do you (think) you know
about the “elf on the shelf”?
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3. To monitor To police Surveil
To observe To watch To observe
To examine To investigate To supervise
Surveillance: Synonyms & Associated Words
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4. 1. What did the video make you
think, feel, or wonder?
2. What were the main actions or
scenes that stood out to you?
3. What do you think Huerta is
trying to tell us about
“surveillance” and “discipline”?
THE GAME!
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5. Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon 5

6. Panoptic Surveillance System
1. Centrally placed watchtower
2. Guards can see into private cells
3. Prisoners cannot see guards
4. Prisoners aware of potential of
being monitored.
5. Prisoners in cells cannot see each
other
6. Isolation prevents prisoners from
influencing each other.
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Penitentiary HospitalWard
Centrally placed watch tower Centrally place nurses station
Guards can see into private cells Nurses can see into private rooms
Prisoners cannot see guards Patients cannot see guards
Prisoners aware of being monitored. Patient aware of being monitored
Prisoners prevented from seeing and
interacting with each other
Patients prevented from seeing and
interacting with each other
Isolation prevents prisoners from
influencing each other.
Isolation prevents patients from infecting
each other.
Panoptic Architecture

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Panoptic Structure? Children’s Games?
Centrally placed “Watcher” Presence of a “watcher”?
Privatized experience
Those being watched experience
monitored privately, by themselves?
“Watcher” is secret/hidden “Watcher” is hidden? Secretive?
Awareness of constant
monitoring
Players aware of constant monitoring?
Purpose? Penalty?

9. 1 The most compelling or interesting idea we talked about today
was . . . because . . .
2 Today’s convo reminded be of . . . (Movie? Song, Personal
experience? Other subject? Other class?) because . . .
3 A lingering question I have about our topic so far is . . .
Final Reflections: Check In so we can all . . . check out!
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