The Steps
Surveillance Society
Categories
Do It Yourself
Potpourri
100
You use the word "will" in this step
What are solutions?
100
Big Brother
What is a character or government that is always watching "you"?
100
TV, iPods, iPhones, Smart Computers, Holograms
What is technology?
100
In major cities, people are caught on camera, on average, 75 times a day. Make a challenge using this statement.
In major cities, people are caught on camera, on average, 75 times a day. People may have trust issues. They may have difficulty developing social relationships.
100
The topic of Qualifying Bowl
What is Surveillance
200
The parts of a challenge
What is a statement from the future, what the problem is, and why that is a problem?
200
Two pros of surveillance
What is that it protects people from potential crimes and helps people feel more secure?
200
Three people who work in business and commerce
Who are (some include) entrepreneurs, merchants, Donald Trump III?
200
Amazoogle employees believe that constantly being watched increases stress. How might we decrease stress related to surveillance at Amazoogle in the year 2035 and beyond so that productivity is increased. Make a solution from this UP.
Felicia Lee, an MIT engineer, will construct a privacy room that is bigger on the inside than on the outside. Amazoogle will allow the room to be used by employees when their stress levels reach a certain point. The privacy rooms lack surveillance, but have panic buttons in case of an emergency. Through the privacy rooms, employees will be able to decrease their stress since they are not being monitored. Relaxed, the employees will be able to think more clearly and efficiently, leading to increased productivity for Amazoogle.
200
This is what the criteria totals add up to in the grid
What is 180?
300
Parts of an Underlying Problem
What is condition phrase (statement from the future scene), key verb phrase (beginning with how might we), time, place, topic, and purpose (so that)?
300
Tools used for surveillance
What are phones, wire tapping, cameras, videotapes, bugs, heat sensors, etc?
300
Army, Marines, Navy, Coast Guard
What is defense?
300
Medical drones monitor stress levels of Amazoogle employees. Create a challenge in the technology category.
Medical drones monitor stress levels of Amazoogle employees. The medical drones may malfunction. As a result, Amazoogle employees may not receive proper treatment due to the damaged medical drones, jeopardizing the employees' health. (could also be labeled Physical Health)
300
Read this part of the future scene first
What is the charge/last paragraph?
400
Where you get the first two criteria from (be specific)
What are the key verb phrase and the purpose?
400
The fourth amendment to the United States' Bill of Rights and how it connects to surveillance
What is that it prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures, causing controversy over surveillance since many believe it goes against the fourth amendment?
400
Amazoogle workers cannot communicate with their families while at work. These employees may quit because of the strict policy preventing families from visiting Amazoogle. Without a job, the workers may be unable to pay their rent.
What is basic needs/economics?
400
Amazoogle employees believe that constantly being watched increases stress. How might we decrease stress related to surveillance at Amazoogle in the year 2035 and beyond so that productivity is increased. Create 3 criteria from this UP.
Which solution will decrease stress related to surveillance the most? Which solution will increase productivity the most? Which solution will be implemented the quickest since surveillance is a prevalent issue in the lives of Amazoogle workers?
400
Words used in challenges and types of words used in criteria
What is may/might and 'st' words?
500
Address these in the Action Plan
What is who, what, where, when, why, how, and two potential obstacles and how they were solved?
500
The purpose of the National Security Agency (NSA)?
What is to globally monitor and collect data for foreign and counterintelligence reasons using mass surveillance (bugging, tracking phone calls, etc).
500
Three psychological health issues
What is (for example) depression, anxiety, paranoia?
500
Amazoogle monitors when employees surf the web, shop on-line, play games, and conduct personal business during work hours. Create a UP from this conditional phrase.
Amazoogle monitors when employees surf the web, shop on-line, play games, and conduct personal business during work hours. How might we, in the year 2035 and beyond at Amazoogle, increase the privacy of the employees so that they will have less psychological issues related to surveillance?
500
Your coach's address to put on the cover sheet
(differs for everyone)
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