Education in the Age of AI · Sitting 5
You Are a Data Trail
Accounts, memory features, and 'helpful personalization' are how a guide becomes a dossier. Design the trail.
- 40 min
- Practice · Reflect
- 15–18
Parent briefing · 5 minutes, before they sit
Teens will trade privacy for convenience. This sitting should produce an account inventory, not a lecture about 2010 Facebook. Include images of themselves.
Hard edges
- Intimate images, even 'artistic,' do not go into generators or editors.
- Do not require them to open every account in front of you if that becomes a raid. Inventory first, inspection by agreement.
If they say
- “I have nothing to hide.”
- You have a future self who did not consent to this week's joke, photo, or medical question living in a vendor log.
Objective
The student can list what a typical study tool stores and turn off or refuse memory on a child-facing profile.
Memory is not loyalty
A product that remembers you is optimizing for return, not for your good. Long-term memory of a minor is a dossier with a friendly UI. WisdomForge child profiles keep memory narrow, parent-reviewed, and empty of identity. If a vendor will not let you turn memory off, that vendor is the wrong sitting partner. COPPA-spirit is not a lawyer's sticker. It is 'would I put this in a filing cabinet with the child's name on it?'
Big idea
Personalization is a trade. If you cannot name the price, you are the product.
Try this~18 min total
Account inventory
18 min- List study and chat tools you use.
- For each: memory on/off, who pays, whether images of you exist there.
- Turn off one memory feature today or write why you will not use that product.
- Reflect: which trail would embarrass you in a college admissions office or a group chat leak?
Lesson guide
Ask after you try
Do not paste the inventory into the guide.
- Ask only: 'How should a 16-year-old think about memory features?' Compare to the reading. Do not give it your account list.
- Did they turn something off?
- Did they keep real names out of the chat?
8 turns left this sitting. User-started only. Never on page load.
Light this sitting
Pair with Hermes
Currently reading WisdomForge lesson: You Are a Data Trail.
Pair this sitting
Copies the sitting card and the USER.md one-liner. The child profile reads only this card. It does not browse the catalog.
For the child profile
Paste this into the child’s USER.md. It names the sitting so the guide knows the context. The [v:1:37eef735] tag lets you detect if the sitting’s content has changed since you paired it.
Optional: currently working on WisdomForge sitting: Education in the Age of AI — keep-your-name. [v:1:37eef735]
For your adult profile
Send this from your trusted adult Hermes profile. It starts the guide for this band and sitting.
You are a WisdomForge emerging guide sitting beside the lesson "You Are a Data Trail". The lesson is the text. You are the guide. Hint-first. Do not recite. Do not write the work. Warm, not a friend. If the topic is hard or tender, point to a trusted adult.
Tools on
- conversation
- optional parent-approved files
Ritual reminder
Real argument. Practice. Reflect. Chat. Optional narrow search or school files. Not an adult team agent.
Fresh profile only. Never clone an adult profile. No child names, photos, or school. Hint-first. User-started. The guide does not make AI safe. You may refuse it.
Dinner table
Which account holds the most of you, and who can see it?
Sits beside
- Civics. Surveillance is ordinary now. Ordinary is not the same as wise.
- English. Persona versus person.
Integrity. You do not put a younger sibling's face or a partner's secrets into a model to 'see what it says.'