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Silver Lining for Learning
Silver Lining for Learning (https://silverliningforlearning.org) is an ongoing conversation on the future of learning with educators and education leaders from across the globe. Hosted by Chris Dede, Curt Bonk, Punya Mishra & Yong Zhao, these conversations began under the “dark cloud” of the COVID19 crisis and continue today. We see these conversations as space to discuss the creation of equitable, humanistic and sustainable learning ecosystems that meet the needs of all learners. These…
Episodes
- Silver Lining for Learning
Significant Change in School Time: The 4-Day School Movement
A group of U.S. schools has implemented a 4-day school week. The number of school districts that offer 4 school days has grown significantly over the past 3…
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Leading Edge Immersive Learning in Higher Education with Marcy Drummond, Greg Heilberger, and Jonathon Richter
Leading Edge Immersive Learning in Higher Education with Marcy Drummond, Greg Heilberger, and Jonathon Richter The hype and promise of immersive learning such…
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Contemporary Education and Changing Culture in Ukraine
Contemporary Education and Changing Culture in Ukraine The war raging in Ukraine has been front page news for the past 18 months. The co-hosts at Silver Lining…
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The art & science of learning engineering with guests Danielle McNamara, Scotty Craig & Rod Roscoe
Danielle McNamara, Scotty Craig, and Rod Roscoe join the SLL Team to discuss the emerging field of learning engineering—and discuss innovative methodologies to…
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SLL Ep. 161 | The Human Restoration Project with guests Nick Covington and Chris McNutt
As activist and author Adrienne Maree Brown urges us, to “...fight for the future, get into the game, get dirty, get experimental…” – we need reimagined…
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Hosts reflect
SLL Ep. 160 | Hosts reflect on media, language and meaning making in an age of AI Silver Lining for Learning is an ongoing conversation on the future of…
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21st Century Language Instruction: A Chat with YouTuber Polyglots
Are you wondering if your language needs a boost? Attend Episode #159 of Silver Lining for Learning and get some answers. In fact, in this episode, we will…
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Building Design Capacity for Online and Digital Education at Scale
Episode #158 will highlight a design-first approach to online and digital education taken at the University of Leeds in the UK. Two initiatives will be shared…
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The Little Bookmates Smart Library as a Literacy Initiative
Episode 157 | The Little Bookmates Smart Library as a Literacy Initiative This episode will air on Saturday July 8, at noon EDT. The Little Bookmates Smart…
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Preparing Children in Africa for a Fast-Changing World
Preparing Children in Africa for a Fast-Changing World with Ms Shirley Eadie, Ms Salome Wenyaa, and Ms Hana Yoshimoto The world is undergoing rapid changes…
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Hosts reflect
SLL Ep 155 | Hosts reflect with Chris Dede, Curt Bonk & Yong Zhao Silver Lining for Learning is an ongoing conversation on the future of learning with…
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EdTechBooks for this Ed Tech Age with guests Rick West, Jason McDonald & Royce Kimmons
As Martin Weller argued in his insightful free and open book nearly a decade ago, we educators find ourselves in a battle for open. Many of us are contributing…
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Micro-credentials and Specializations for the Masses: Alternatives for a Nontraditional Age
Micro-credentials & specializations for the masses: Alternatives for a nontraditional age with guests: Fiona Holland, Aasiya Kazi, Katherine Javier and Yuan…
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Pondering the Future of OER and Open Education
Episode #152. Saturday May 27, 2023, 11:00 noon Eastern The notion of open educational resources (OER) as well as opencourseware (OCW) sprung up on April 4…
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Seeking Educational Equity in World conflict Zones
Education is typically considered a human right but for 450 million young people living in conflict zones around the world, schooling is an early casualty of…
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How the Dominican Republic Overcame Educational Challenges of the Pandemic
How the Dominican Republic Overcame Educational Challenges of the Pandemic with guests María Waleska Álvarez from EDUCA and Eladio Jimenez from UNICEF This…
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Applying Human-Centered Engineering Methods to Learning
Applying Human-Centered Engineering Methods to Learning with Jim Goodell, Janet Kolodner, and Sae Schatz “Learning engineering is a process and a practice that…
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The Finnish way: Preparing university students for life
The Finnish Way - Preparing university students for life with Ulla Hemminki-Reijonen, Kati Kettunen, and Outi Toijala When talking about Finland, the…
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Hosts reflect
Hosts reflect on the past few weeks and then focus on a deep dive into AI and other forms of alien intelligence and implications for education and educational…
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3rd Year Anniversary Show: The Future of Education (and more)
In Episode #145 of Silver Lining for Learning, Sophia Mendoza, Paul Kim, Kiran Bit Sethi, and Shuangye Chen discuss what the future of education might look…
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3rd Year Anniversary Show: The Future of Education
What is the future of education? Thousands of people have been pondering that since the start of the pandemic three years ago. The guests and hosts at Silver…
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Celebrating 3 years of SLL with the Podcast Crew
In this episode of SLL, we are celebrating 3 years of the series with Toks Bakare, Lea Anne Daughrity, Ragini Lall, and Annie Nam. They call themselves the…
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Creating open, immersive & responsive learning at scale with Ariel Anbar and Norman Bier
Our guests (Ariel Anbar and Norman Bier) propose a promising solution for tackling complex concepts in education: creating immersive, adaptive, and open…
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Through The Staff: A Global Virtual Musical Community Helping Kids Achieve Their Dreams
Through The Staff (TTS) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in the United States created in the first weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic. TTS aims to…
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Hosts reflect
Hosts reflect Join the conversation at silverliningforlearning.org
Silver Lining for LearningBans Don’t Work in an Open World: Afghan Women Find Educational Opportunities in Bangladesh
Since the Taliban took over Afghanistan in 2021, higher education has become increasingly limited for young women and often suspended and banned. According to…
Silver Lining for LearningIs it Time to Lead or About Time We LED?: Learning Experience Design & Personalized Learning
Many job roles and responsibilities are rapidly changing here in the third decade of the twenty-first century. According to a December 19, 2022 article in the…
Silver Lining for LearningDesigning learning at scale in India (with Inspirit VR & Maker Ghat)
The dominant schooling system in India today is a product of the colonial era. It follows the factory model of education and emphasizes rote learning. But in a…
Silver Lining for LearningMental Health, Mindfulness, and the Movement Toward Social-Emotional Learning
Issues of social and emotional learning have always been a critical cornerstone of schooling. In particular, mental health and well-being had already become a…
Silver Lining for LearningHow the Pandemic has shaped Leading Universities’ Integration of Digital Learning
A thought-provoking conversation featuring guests from Harvard, MIT, and Stanford discussing their recently published reports on the impact of the COVID-19…
Silver Lining for LearningHosts Reflect 135
Coming back from the holidays, the hosts talk about the key ideas from the last few episodes. Young wonders about technology in education coupled with the…
Silver Lining for LearningThe Future of Education? Now, You can Literally Google It
What might the future of education look like? Google for Education collaborated with research partner Canvas8 to conduct a study across 24 countries on the…
Silver Lining for LearningReinventing Public Education, Post Pandemic
We are joined by Robin & Travis from The Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE | crpe.org) which is a research organization at Arizona State…
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The civics of technology
We are joined by Dan Krutka and Marie Heath from Civics of Technology who tell us more about the project, its origin, where they are now and their future plans…
Silver Lining for LearningFind a Place for Stanford’s Code In Place
Life is filled with challenges and adventures. Imagine teaching over 10,000 students in a single class. Sounds quite daunting, doesn’t it? Now what if those…
Silver Lining for Learning21st Century Learning in an Indian Context
This is the third of three episodes that we are devoting to education in India. As we had said in the introduction to the first of this series (#123 and #129)…
Silver Lining for LearningStudent Centered learning in an Indian Context
This is the second of three episodes that we are devoting to education in India. As we had said in the introduction to the first of this series (#123), with…
Silver Lining for LearningRealizing the Full Benefit of Artificial Intelligence for Education
Roy Amara of the Institute for the Future is quoted as saying: “We overestimate technology short-term, and underestimate it long-term.” How does this apply to…
Silver Lining for LearningHosts reflect 127
Silver Lining for Learning is an ongoing conversation on the future of learning with educators and education leaders from across the globe. Hosted by Chris…
Silver Lining for LearningThree Decades of Insights from the Escuela Nueva School Model
In this episode of Silver Lining for Learning, we will meet with Vicky Colbert, a sociologist from Colombia. She is co-creator of the world-renowned Escuela…
Silver Lining for LearningDemocratizing Creative Educational Experiences and Side Effects in Education
What is creativity? How can we cultivate creativity in education? Can it be assessed? If so, then how? These are all significant and unsettled questions in…
Silver Lining for LearningMicrocredentials that Add Value beyond Degrees and Certifications
Today, learners face an unprecedented challenge: adapting to a world that is changing more quickly than ever before. The skills, tools, and knowledge needed to…
Silver Lining for LearningTeacher development and women’s empowerment in rural India
India is home to 1.4 billion people, 52% of whom are younger than 30 years of age and 27% are under 15! India is a pluralistic, multilingual and multi-ethnic…
Silver Lining for LearningHosts reflect 122
Hosts reflect on the development of SLL with special guest Lin Lin Lipsmeyer and celebrate SLL receiving the AECT Distinguished Development Award! Join the…
Silver Lining for LearningActive Learning…Space: The Final Frontier
In this session of Silver Lining for Learning (SLL) will discuss innovative learning spaces that are being created, augmented, evaluated, and reimagined in…
Silver Lining for LearningSome Schools are Not Reopening, They’re Reinventing
During the hour, we discuss Michael’s new book, “From Reopen to Reinvent: (Re)creating School for Every Child” published in 2020 by Jossey-Bass. Schools can…
Silver Lining for LearningViews from Global Top Performers on the Future of Education
What is the future of education? What should it be? What can it be? How are policymakers in top PISA-performing education systems thinking about the future of…
Silver Lining for LearningEarly Childhood Learning at Scale: Sesame Street as a Model
For more than half a century, Sesame Street has pioneered and evolved a model for early childhood learning at scale. This episode discusses the key role…
Silver Lining for LearningHosts Reflect 117
Hosts Curt Bonk, Punya Mishra & Yong Zhao gather to reflect on the past four episodes (#113 - #116) and provide commentary. Tune in to our past episodes!…
Silver Lining for LearningTaking a Venture into Eduventures
For the past three decades, Eduventures has sought to understand fast-changing education market demands (e.g., student recruitment, retention, success, various…
Silver Lining for LearningRethinking Creativity: Race, Culture, and Education
Creativity has grown to become one of the most important concepts in education in the 21st Century. However, much research and thinking about creativity remain…
Silver Lining for LearningTitle Free Immersive Education for All: From Greece to the World
The Virtual School (VS) project was inspired by the tragedy in Mati Athens, where a disastrous fire on 23 July 2018 resulted in 96 people losing their lives…
Silver Lining for LearningAddressing the Digital Divide: The Story of Oakland with Javeria Salman of the Hechinger Report in April 2022
When COVID-19 forced schools to offer remote learning, access to computing devices and the Internet became a significant issue for many children. Although the…
Silver Lining for LearningHosts Reflect 112
Hosts Curt Bonk, Punya Mishra & Yong Zhao gather to reflect on the past five episodes (#108-#111 + Bonus episode) and provide commentary. Tune in to our past…
Silver Lining for LearningK-12 Expansion into Higher Education
K-12 schools, especially those known for their own unique educational philosophies and pedagogies, have been working on preparing their own teachers and…
Silver Lining for LearningBig Data in Education: The Promise and the Peril
A large amount of learning happens in digital environments that can preserve data about every click, scroll, and touch. These data can support powerful…
Silver Lining for LearningIt’s Time to Scale Up Global Education: A Chat with Laurence Peters
We have on Laurence Peters (JD, MA), a current teacher at Johns Hopkins, to chat with him about his new book published by Routledge in 2022, Creating the…
Silver Lining for Learning(InnovateHERs: Strategies from Purpose-Driven Entrepreneurial Women)
As a woman, how can you foster an entrepreneurial mindset to succeed in business? How do you take an idea, dream or goal and transform it into a strategy for…
Silver Lining for LearningHosts reflect
Hosts Curt Bonk, Punya Mishra & Yong Zhao gather to reflect on the past nine episodes (#98-#106) and provide commentary. Tune in to our past episodes! Episode…
Silver Lining for LearningGlobal Eyes on Global Ed: Transforming Learning through Cross Cultural Project-Based Learning
This episode of Silver Lining for Learning will highlight global education projects and approaches designed and sponsored by the Centre for Global Education…