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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 LearningQualityMatters.org on Quality Matters
What are the changes we have noticed, the challenges, and opportunities, globally, for both HE and K-12 education to improve and ensure quality in digital…
Silver Lining for LearningMeaningful and Active Learning through Technology-Expanded Classrooms and Intense Global Collaboration
This session is focused on attracting students’ interest and engagement in inquiry, meaningful learning, global education, and cross-cultural projects…
Silver Lining for LearningDon’t Just be Savvy, be World Savvy!
In this increasingly diverse and globally connected world, global education and exchange opportunities are increasingly vital. Enter World Savvy, a national…
Silver Lining for LearningStrategies for Scaling to Achieve Educational Impact
This session focuses on the challenges and opportunities for scaling innovations in the education sector in a context of uncertainty, risk, and ambiguity…
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Back to the future – with guests from past 100 episodes
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Special Episode Celebration with surprise guests
Silver Lining for Learning, Episode 100: Celebrating 100 episodes with guests Dodzi Amemado, Lydia Cao, Gerald Fussell, John Heffernan, Robert Nelson, Priyank…
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Mechanisms for Achieving Educational Visions
Mechanisms for achieving educational vision with Barbara Means & Jeremy Roschelle Join the conversation at silverliningforlearning.org
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Authentic Project-based Learning in Science (Urban Farms & Tyre Gardens as Mindtools)
New Zealand North Island: Problem-based learning (PBL) is a student-centered pedagogical approach that can hook students into science. In this session, Sutapa…
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Hosts reflect
The hosts discuss the most recent episodes and continue the conversation while trying to reflect on the topics that were covered by various guests from around…
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Transforming Schools to Personalize Education
Personalization of learning has become a major goal of educational transformation. But very few schools have actually achieved true personalization, which Yong…
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The view from the Dean’s office
It is clear that the field of education faces significant challenges today. We live in a world that is increasingly interconnected even while national and…
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Responding to the pandemic: The view from the superintendent’s desk
Over the past two years, schools have been battling with the pandemic in many different ways in order to provide high quality education to all children. They…
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Exploring Modes of Remote Learning in Palestine During the Pandemic: Opportunities and Challenges
Education is highly valued in Palestine--a ccording to a data report by the United Nations in 2018, nearly 95.4 percent of children attend schools. Yet, access…
Silver Lining for LearningHosts reflect
Hosts Curt Bonk, Punya Mishra & Yong Zhao gather to reflect on the past three episodes (#89 - #91) and provide commentary. Tune in to our past episodes!…
Silver Lining for LearningInnovations during the COVID‑19 Pandemic around the World
This conversation gives an overview of educational innovations which emerged during the pandemic, examined through the framework of educational change proposed…
Silver Lining for LearningTechnology Education Innovations, from 1 to 1,000 Schools and Beyond
Over the past decade, Computer Science (CS) education has been the fastest growing subject area in K-12 and postsecondary instruction. In this episode, we will…
Silver Lining for LearningLearning Losses or Learning Gains: The Sky is the Limit When Youths Take Action
As noted in an October 2021 article in EdSurge, the pandemic allowed many high school students in Colorado to self-direct their learning. Through Youth…
Silver Lining for LearningHosts Reflect
This episode is a reflection on the impact of the last two years on learning and learners. What can we do now and in the future to push for new learning…
Silver Lining for LearningResponsive innovations in MOOCs for Development: A case study of AgMOOCs in India
In this episode, Balaji Venkataraman, Director for Technology and Knowledge Management, Commonwealth of Learning, Canada and Tadinada V. Prabhakar, Professor…
Silver Lining for LearningHarnessing Technologies to Create Immersive Experiences
How is learning changing in the workplace? In this episode we hear from two professionals and their journeys. We will take a virtual tour to the newly…
Silver Lining for LearningThe many faces of openness meet the many faces of online learning in Egypt
MOOC discourses originating from the Global North can appear potentially colonizing to educators in the Global South. In this session, we contextualize open…
Silver Lining for LearningHosts reflect
This discussion is an overview of the last three episodes, but also celebrates the entire series from the beginning. This Thanksgiving episode is an…
Silver Lining for LearningReimagining the Future of Education and Several Other Simple Ideas
Noah Sobe, Senior Project Officer for the Futures of Education Initiative, and his colleagues at UNESCO in Paris authored the Futures of Education report for…
Silver Lining for LearningLife and Learning in the Metaverse
Life and Learning in the Metaverse, with Adam Seldow and Monica Arés from Meta The metaverse is envisioned as the successor to the mobile internet — a set of…
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Education Enabled by Technology: Fostering Learning in Under-Sourced Village Schools in China
This episode introduces how synchronous hybrid instruction provides learning opportunities for children in under-sourced Chinese village schools. The…
Silver Lining for LearningHosts reflect
Hosts Chris Dede, Curt Bonk, Punya Mishra & Yong Zhao gather to reflect on the past three episodes (#72-#74) and provide commentary. Episode 79 |…
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Human-Centered Approaches to Education, Philanthropy, and Systems-Change
Many of us are grappling with what it will take to achieve profoundly different levels of racial, social and economic justice in our communities and systems…
Silver Lining for LearningDesigning the Next Education Workforce
Stevenson Elementary in Mesa Public Schools in the Phoenix metropolitan area has successfully transitioned to team-based staffing models school-wide under the…
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The Education We Need: A Conversation with Tony Wagner and Ted Dintersmith
We all want to make changes to education because we all want to have a better education for our children. We all also believe that a better education is not…
Silver Lining for LearningPlanning for a Blended Learning Future and then Planning Again
This episode of Silver Lining for Learning will focus on the recent blended learning report Planning for a Blended Future: A Research-Driven Guide for…
Silver Lining for LearningHosts reflect
Hosts Chris Dede, Curt Bonk, Punya Mishra & Yong Zhao gather to reflect on the past three episodes (#72-#74) and provide commentary. We celebrate the birthday…
Silver Lining for LearningThe Push for Equitable Learning in Inequitable Learning Spaces: Taking a Journey to Bhutan, Papua New Guinea, and Nepal
In the Global South, the education of those in rural schools is often characterized by the lack of access to adequate teaching and learning resources…
Silver Lining for LearningIn Search of Brighter Days with Night High Schools in Costa Rica
Night schools are a critical and valuable educational option offered to students around the world and yet information asymmetry exists in the role they play in…
Silver Lining for LearningSTEM Education, in and out of school
Mary Jo Madda is the Growth & Engagement Strategy Lead for several diversity + education initiatives at Google, and a doctoral student at the UCLA School of…
Silver Lining for LearningHosts reflect
Hosts Curt Bonk, Punya Mishra & Yong Zhao gather to reflect on the past five episodes (#67-#70) and provide commentary. Episode 70 | Lessons Teacher Educators…
Silver Lining for LearningLessons Teacher Educators Should Have Learned from the Pandemic
In the midst of living through the pandemic, 46 authors from around the world paused, reflected, and wrote chapters for an open access book on lessons that…
Silver Lining for LearningUntangling Adaptive Learning on the Way to Tangelo Park: Taking a Road Trip to Central Florida
In Episode #69, Chuck Dziuban and Patsy Moskal from the University of Central Florida (UCF) have spent decades conducting research on blended and fully online…
Silver Lining for LearningThere’s a New Horizon for Higher Education: Make that Three Horizons
The annual EDUCAUSE Horizon Report on emerging learning technologies and trends is widely anticipated, cherished, and read by thousands worldwide. Topics like…
Silver Lining for LearningEducational Alchemy: Time to Restore, Adapt, Evolve, or Transform?
Gilly Salmon is a leader in online learning, e-learning, and blended learning, having spent 30 years in the university sector in the UK and Australia as…
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Hosts reflect with special guest Scott McLeod
Hosts reflect on the past 4 episodes (#62-65) with special guest Scott McLeod. Episode 62 | Participatory creativity with Vlad Glaveanu & Edward Clapp Episode…
Silver Lining for LearningInnovative Learning at Massive Scale: Let’s nQuire about the Future of FutureLearn
FutureLearn from the Open University (OU) in the UK offers a unique example of how massive open online courses (MOOCs) can be designed for active and engaging…
Silver Lining for LearningSelf-directed learning with Peter Gray and Bria Bloom
Children come into the world with an instinctive drive to play, explore, and learn. These drives are shaped by our evolutionary past to make us who we are…
Silver Lining for LearningLet children play with Pasi Sahlberg & Alex Harper
Play is essential for child development but is not always encouraged within formal educational settings. Increasingly, children are losing the freedom, time…
Silver Lining for LearningParticipatory creativity with Vlad Glaveanu & Edward Clapp
The role of creativity in education has always been deemed necessary and important. In this episode, we discuss a new framework of viewing creativity as a…
Silver Lining for LearningHosts reflect
Hosts Chris Dede, Curt Bonk, Punya Mishra & Yong Zhao gather to reflect on the past five episodes (#57-#60) and provide commentary. Episode 60 | Transforming…
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Transforming Higher Education Policy and Practice for the Global Common Good
Uliana Furiv, Associate Project Officer at the UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning, will discuss how flexibility has been important both…
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It’s Time to be Inclusive and Include UDL
Have you heard colleagues talk about University Design for Learning (UDL) and wonder what it is? Are you charged with developing training in your organization…
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Unpacking the Digitization and Datafication of Education: Thoughts from Finland and Beyond
Is “the world” still open? Why does it sometimes feel that the digitalization of education, datafication, and digital learning platforms raise new…
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Technology in Special Education and the National Center for Innovation, Design, and Digital Learning
Technology has played a significant role in special education and has a lot more potential. In this episode we invite the top professors in technology and…
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Welcome to the Wonderful World of Openness
David Wiley, Co-founder and Chief Academic Officer, Lumen Learning, has been a leader in the open education movement for over two decades. If an interesting or…
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Hosts reflect
In this episode of Silver Linings for Learning, the Hosts reflect on the past 4 episodes. Join the conversation at silverliningforlearning.org
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Immersive virtual reality to teach about climate change and conservation
In this episode, Jeremy Bailenson, Kristy Kroeker, and Anna Queiroz, will discuss their shared work on the Stanford Ocean Acidification Experience, which is an…
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Designing Online Collaborative Professional Development at Scale
Delivering high quality professional development at scale that builds on new knowledge of learning and the mind is crucial to the future of teaching. In…
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Reaching Out and Reaching In | East Asian Women Leaders in Educational Technology
This episode will explore the recent projects and initiatives of three East Asian educational technology leaders, Insung Jung, Ok-hwa Lee, and Meifeng Liu…
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Innovative Sustainable Forest Management Education in the Asia-Pacific Region
This episode of Silver Linking for Learning discusses how open educational resources and courseware is utilized for forestry education and forestry management…
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Hosts celebrate & reflect on 50 episodes
Celebration and reflection on the past 50 episodes and plans for the future. Join the conversation at silverliningforlearning.org
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HyFlex Course design: Conditions, Controversy & Craftsmanship
HyFlex is a term used widely and often with a tint of controversy; especially when teachers are already overwhelmed with student psychological, emotional…
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Hosts Share Favorite Episodes at the CESI Conferenc
The SLL Hosts–Chris Dede, Curt Bonk, Punya Mishra, Shuangye Chen, and Yong Zhao–will each identify a few of their favorite episodes and describe why these are…
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The Mobiles for Education Alliance & Lessons Learned
During their SLL talk, Tony and Scott will elaborate on the rationale for, background to, and ambitions of the mEducation Alliance and share some of the…
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Embracing a New Paradigm with Dr. Stephen Harris
A paradigm shift is needed in education. On Saturday Feb 13th, we have a guest who has been promoting and leading the paradigm shift for several decades in…