reSee.it Podcast Summary
Whitney Webb opens by noting that measures first justified as emergency during COVID—remote learning, distancing, high‑tech tools—were quickly framed as permanent “new normal” across sectors, with education especially targeted. She argues these changes will shape generations’ health and development, while discussions of quarantines’ effects on children are largely absent. Remote learning and EdTech are presented as here to stay, fueled by corporate takeover of American education, and with unions often promoting policy expansion under public‑health rhetoric.
John Klyczek, a professor and author, outlines evidence he sees for the ineffectiveness of distancing and masking, including studies claiming in‑person schooling does not raise community transmission and that school‑age youth deaths from COVID are below typical flu deaths. He contends the three‑to‑six‑foot policy became a lever to sustain hybrid or blended learning, tying this to public‑private EdTech partnerships. He traces ulterior motives to conflicts of interest between teachers unions (NEA, AFT) and EdTech/UNESCO, arguing the unions have long collaborated with IBM on “teaching machines” and adaptive learning software, from the 1960s to today’s platforms like DreamBox, Brightspace Leap, Clever, and Aleks. This lineage, he says, funnels students into workforce pathways and data‑driven governance.
Discussing broader geopolitics, he describes UNESCO’s 2050 vision as depicting the “death of the school” in favor of infinitely personalized digital learning, with teachers as expendable and institutions as replaceable by AI and monitoring. He cites UNESCO’s earlier Intergovernmental Council language and transhumanist rhetoric about machine–human convergence, cyborgs, and nanotech, stressing the intent to globalize standards through partnerships with IBM, Microsoft, Apple, and others, and to embed these within public/private finance structures.
They discuss technologies in current use: learning management systems (Desire2Learn, Canvas, Blackboard), adaptive modules via Brightspace Leap, and data dashboards that mine psychometrics and cognitive/behavioral signals. They warn this data could feed a social‑credit‑like system via blockchain‑based health or identity platforms (ID2020, Good Health Pass, VerifyVax), linking vaccines, testing, biometrics, and employment data across countries and sectors.
They also recount an Illinois vaccine‑mandate experience, arguing mandates are about data capture and future governance rather than health, linking it to blockchain IDs, vaccine passports, and “careers pathways” funded by impact investing. The discussion concludes with cautions about precision medicine and precision education—genetic baselines shaping learning—and a call to document and resist the depersonalizing, data‑driven overhaul of education.
For further reading and updates, Klyczek directs to schoolworldorder.info and Unlimited Hangout, plus his YouTube/Bitchute channels and a paid Webbrain database.