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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
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Hosts Reflections on past episodes
On Episode 45, Silver Lining for Learning (SLL) hosts gather and reflect on the previous episodes and discuss future plans. SLL hosts have a long and expansive…
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Reflections on the 60 Year Curriculum with Rovy Branon
Even before COVID-19, higher education was at the beginning of significant change. According to educators like Rovy Branon, there is a need for a “60 Year…
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Designing for learners to take charge: Kiran Sethi and Aakash Sethi
Kiran Bir Sethi is a Designer who became a Teacher, a Principal who grew into an Education Reformer and subsequently morphed into a Social Entrepreneur. A…
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Outreach of the Penguins with Science Educator Jean Pennycook
Ever want to spend a Saturday afternoon hearing how a science educator has spent over a decade designing and implementing educational outreach what may be the…
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Making Education Change a Reality: Gabriel Rshaid from Argentina
How to make education changes happen in schools? What can technology do for students and educators? How do you spread changes to more schools? Join us on in…
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Reflecting on 2020 with the hosts
On Saturday, December 19th, the hosts of Silver Lining for Learning gather to reflect on conversations with guests over the past nine months and look forward…
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A Break in the Ice: One Person’s Journey to Save the Last Ocean
How does one teach from a boat or an ice shield in the Antarctic? Dr. Cassandra Brooks, an award winning Assistant Professor in Environmental Studies at the…
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Fostering Local-to-Global Courses through MOOCs
From their outset, MOOCs have been envisioned as engines of change. Whereas early conceptions of MOOCs centered around providing universal access to high…
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Puerto Rico: Overcoming Catastrophes, COVID, and Corruption
The SLL guests this week are Dr. Edgar León, who teaches online graduate courses for the Education, Technology and Curriculum Graduate School at the Caribbean…
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Inspiring Examples to Overcome Education Inequality in Turkey
Fulden Ergen a Teachers Network Communications Expert and Tuğba İnanç, CEO and Co-Founder of Da Vinci Learning Academy in Turkey, discuss education…
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Cross-school Collaboration: The Global Online Academy
Education innovations do not only happen in schools. Cross-school collaboration is necessary for students and teachers to expand their access to different and…
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Interactive XR Learning Aids in Myanmar and Beyond
Hla Hla Win and Yau Min Aung, co-Founders of 360ed discuss how their partnership with the Myanmar Ministry of Education has accelerated Myanmar education…
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Nepali High School Students in MOOCs
Few SLL listeners know much about Nepal’s education system. Even fewer likely realize the innovative attempts in Nepal to take advantage of massive open online…
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Hosts reflect on past four episodes
The hosts of Silver Lining for Learning will gather together to reflect on the conversations they have had with guests over the past few weeks and look forward…
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How the Pandemic Can Accelerate Scaling Educational Innovations
While the immediate and longer-term repercussions of the pandemic should not be minimized, there are also examples emerging of ways in which the pandemic may…
Silver Lining for LearningIt’s a World of Learning at the World Bank
Guest, Sheila Jagannathan Head of the Open Learning Campus at the World Bank Group discusses her work and lessons from delivering MOOCs for global audiences on…
Silver Lining for LearningStudent Voices
Students are at the core of all these conversations. The hosts want to know what students have been thinking, and what they expect from educators. Students as…
Silver Lining for LearningMOOCs and Open Education in Southeast Asia
A conversation with experts about new models of education that are emerging during the pandemic. Guests professor Zoraini Wati Abas, Deputy Vice-Chancellor at…
Silver Lining for LearningMore Lessons from China
China has controlled COVID-19 and has opened schools for all children. Our hosts invite three distinguished guests to discuss lessons from China. Dr Chuang…
Silver Lining for LearningReflecting on our past few guests
The hosts of Silver Lining for Learning gather together to reflect on previous conversations with guests over the past few weeks. Thinking about lessons…
Silver Lining for LearningMaking Contact with Contact North
The need to connect the underserved and marginalized to rich, relevant, and robust education and training opportunities has been mounting during the pandemic…
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Blended and online learning with Catlin Tucker
Over the spring and summer there was one name I heard on the lips of P-12 educators more than any other. On August 29 at 5:30pm Eastern (USA), we are delighted…
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Immersive simulations & stealth assessment: A conversation with Tina Grotzer & Sayedahmad Rahimi
Tina Grotzer discusses how virtual worlds hold promise for helping the next generation learn to think about complex causality and describes her work on the…
Silver Lining for LearningA Conversation with Stephen Heppell
Professor Stephen Heppell discusses his broad range of experiences with technological innovations in education. The conversation goes beyond what has been done…
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Reflecting on our past episodes (and some new directions)
The hosts of Silver Lining for Learning gather together to reflect on previous conversations with guests over the past few weeks and also look forward to the…
Silver Lining for LearningTransforming Education in Australia and Beyond
#Silverliningforlearning is a show about educational transformations during or prior to COVID-19. We have been talking with guests from all over the world and…
Silver Lining for LearningEducational Innovation for Equity and Immersive Learning in Africa
NGOs and private organizations across Africa mobilize to provide educational innovation for equity & immersive learning. In this episode, three guests discuss…
Silver Lining for LearningThe View from Israel - Sharing, Innovating, and Collaborating in a Global World
Today, the educational world spins on collaboration and knowledge sharing. We have rapidly departed from an age when few teachers opened their doors to guest…
Silver Lining for LearningEducator simulations
Simulations can be a powerful tool for learning, and we focus on simulations for educators. This is our first of two episodes on simulations. In this week’s…
Silver Lining for LearningReflecting on our past few guests
The hosts of Silver Lining for Learning gather to reflect on the conversations that we have had with our guests over the past few weeks and look forward to the…
Silver Lining for LearningStudent Voices
In this episode, we feature student guests from three widely spaced geographic location: Beijing, Hawaii, and Sydney. Shen Shuowen and Guo Xingyan are 12th…
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ISTE Innovators in the Pandemic: Reflections and Actions
Joined by not one but three highly accomplished pioneers in the K-12 educational technology space who are all affiliated to ISTE. We discuss all about what…
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Remote Teaching and Home Learning in South Korea and Singapore
Nina Lim share her personal experience of distance teaching first grade students in California and Seoul. She describes what instruction looked like during…
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Large-Scale Learning Environments: Writers in the Secret Garden
We are joined by two authors of a great book called Writers in the Secret Garden: Fanfiction, Youth, and New Forms of Mentoring provides an in-depth…
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Reflecting on our past few guests
The hosts of Silver Lining for Learning gathered to reflect on the conversations that we have had with our guests over the past few weeks and look forward to…
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Crisis, drift, and new paradigms for public education
Our guest this week is Dr. Shawn Loescher, an active practitioner in educational innovation and school system redesign. As CEO of Urban Discovery Schools, he…
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The view from Italy
Italy was one of the countries to be hit early and hard by the Coronavirus. Partial lockdown began late February, expanding to the entire country within 2…
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Rethinking Education with Great Questions
Our guest Dr. Kim discusses what does asking not just a good question, but a great or better question entail. He shares his work with SMILE (Stanford Mobile…
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Powerful Learning with Universal Access: Uruguay’s CEIBAL Program
Learn about Plan Ceibal's approach to providing equal opportunities and inclusion for all students in the public education system in Uruguay through the use of…
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Making sense of our last 4 guest episodes
Hear the hosts discuss what stood out for them as they conducted the silver learning linings series. They discuss how the learning revolution is not equally…
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Rethinking school with Will Richardson
Will Richardson walks us through his beliefs on how schools need to change. We start with discussing why we are so resistant to this change, unpacking why…
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Using COL and Cool Open Education Resources
In this episode, we discuss the challenges faced by the education system due to the COVID-19 pandemic, specifically the lack of access to quality educational…
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Delivering Education when Schools Are Closed: Lessons from China
With COVID-19 bringing forth one of the largest experiments in education - 200 million students attending “School” online. February 2020 brought with it alot…
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Where (When) There is No School
Episode 02 of Silver Lining for Learning focused on the topic of Where (When) There Is No School. Our special guest was Sugata Mitra, winner of the 2013 TED…
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Launching Silver Lining for Learning
Launching Silver Lining for Learning, March 31, 2020 - just as schools across the world were shutting down. With Chris Dede, Curt Bonk, Punya Mishra, Scott…
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Trailer: Silver Lining for Learning
This is a preview of the Silver Lining for Learning podcast. Silver Lining for Learning is an ongoing conversation on the future of learning with educators and…