Good evening, I'm Jared Fries with this
special TechEd News Network iReport on
Panopticon in the Classroom
Today, we're looking at how teachers in the
present year 2045
exert their authority on their students
held captive in an institutionalized
education system
This new edtech app seems inviting, promising improvement in vital soft skills like grit
Yet underneath thisfaçade of learning is a beautiful behavior management tool
that assures the automatic functioning of power. Let's take a look to see how
the individual is carefully fabricated in the panoptic machine.
Here we see a teacher rewarding young Johnny
a point for participating in class.
Don't you just love his yellow avatar
and that satisfying "ping" of motivation?
Now look at Matthew, talking out of turn yet again... thank
goodness we have this free tool to
Thank goodness we have this free tool to discipline students,
otherwise educators would have to rely
on setting a positive classroom culture
and develop intrinsic motivation in
their students,
far too difficult to expect from our
teachers today.
The juridical form can set more non-egalitarian disciplines and rewards, as well
to ensure everyday physical mechanisms of micro-power.
One of the best features is that the system is visible,
acting as a trap on unsuspecting students.
Since this screen could often be projected during class, the discipline becomes self-automated;
Bradley knows that in order to receive the cute ding sound of a reward
and not be tormented by his peers, he
needs to act better in class.
meanwhile, class suckups like Cameron and Halle act in compliance with the rules. 
Because it is possible to intervene at any moment and because the constant pressure acts
even before the offences, mistakes, or crimes have been committed,
 the class ruler no longer needs to worry about disciplining students!
One interesting function is how outsiders can easily witness such efficiency.
An inspector such as a parent could arrive at this Panopticon
and can judge at a glance how the entire establishment is functioning.
Previously parents had to establish communication with the teacher, 
but now they can just peek in and check out behavior,
and perhaps add on some extra discipline at home.
Meanwhile, students don’t seem worried about potential invasions of liberty or privacy. 
By giving students the option to create their own avatars,
it empowers them to forget the fact that they are learning in a
 society not of spectacle, but of surveillance.
After all, efficiency is both a laudable and the noblest goal in education…
Class Dojo makes that happen
