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Silver Lining for Learning, Episode 100: Celebrating 100 episodes with guests Dodzi Amemado, Lydia Cao, Gerald Fussell, John Heffernan, Robert Nelson, Priyank Sharma & Danty Yin

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New Zealand North Island: Problem-based learning (PBL) is a student-centered pedagogical approach that can hook students into science. In this session, Sutapa Mukund will explain how PBL allows stude…

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 the world.

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Personalization of learning has become a major goal of educational transformation. But very few schools have actually achieved true personalization, which Yong Zhao calls personalizable education in …

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 global tribalism tears it asunder. A world t…

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 have responded creatively to the many dis…

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 to a high quality education is the poin…

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!

Episode 91 | Innovations during the COVID‑19 Pa…

This conversation gives an overview of educational innovations which emerged during the pandemic, examined through the framework of educational change proposed in the recent OECD book: How Learning C…

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 talk with two Harvard alumni who have s…

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 Participatory Action Research (YPAR), young peo…

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 methods and opportunities to meet the new worl…

In this episode, Balaji Venkataraman, Director for Technology and Knowledge Management, Commonwealth of Learning, Canada and Tadinada V. Prabhakar, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engin…

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 established “Experience Center” at PwC in Cyprus…

MOOC discourses originating from the Global North can appear potentially colonizing to educators in the Global South. In this session, we contextualize open from an Egyptian perspective and refer to …

This discussion is an overview of the last three episodes, but also celebrates the entire series from the beginning. This Thanksgiving episode is an opportunity for the crew to say thank you to the l…

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 UNESCO, “Reimagining our futures together…

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 interconnected digital spaces that lets yo…