The Higherside Chats John Klyczek | School World Order Updates, AI Teachers, & Techno-education
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Feb 7, 2026 John Klyczek, author and critic of corporatized techno-education, who taught college rhetoric and researches datafication in schools. He discusses AI's rapid spread into classrooms. He traces how student data, pay-for-success finance, and digital wallets monetize and securitize outcomes. He explores wearables, health ledgers, and local tech-free alternatives.
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Schools As Onboarding Engines
- Schools serve as the primary onboarding site for normalizing surveillance tech and AI for new generations.
- Children experience invasive data collection that later becomes assumed baseline in society.
Tutoring Hours Replaced By Upswing
- John Klyczek lost about half his tutoring hours when his school adopted an AI intermediary called Upswing.
- Administrators justified it as cost-saving and data-scaling, which displaced human tutors.
Data Powers Education Finance
- AI-driven edtech is tightly linked to impact investing that monetizes measurable student outcomes.
- Scalable analytics feed pay-for-success schemes that securitize future public savings as bonds.
