RISK DOMAIN 03: DEVELOPMENT
The End of the "Fresh Start."
Children need friction to grow. They need to explore weird ideas, make mistakes, and try on different identities. Surveillance kills that process.
What happens when a child's cogntive capture begins at age 6?
THREAT VECTORS
The Panopticon Effect
When a student knows they are being watched, they stop exploring. They start performing. They don't ask "What is true?" They ask "What does the teacher want to hear?
Pre-Upload Scanning
The most vulnerable moment for a child is the "Draft." The deleted video, the unsent text. Platforms now capture these moments. They are monetizing the insecurity of adolescence.
REQUIRED PROTOCOLS
01 / THE RIGHT TO THE DRAFT
A ban on collecting data from content that was deleted or never published.
02 / STRUGGLE-FIRST LEARNING
Designing curriculum where the "messy thinking" happens on paper or offline, and only the final result is digitized.
03 / DEVELOPMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTS
Tech companies must prove their tools don't harm autonomy before they enter the classroom.
Timothy Cook
I help educators understand how AI tools affect student thinking and how to build learning environments that protect cognitive development.
CONSULTANT, CONNECTED CLASSROOM