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 conversations are hosted live on YouTube every Saturday (typically 5:30 PM Eastern US time).
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 61 minutes
- Episodes
- 242
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
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 synchronous hybrid class, built by Project VolunO…
Hosts 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 | Human-Centered Approaches to Education, Philanthropy…
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, including education and philanthropy. In …
Designing 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 leadership of Principal Krista Adams. Me…
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 only necessary but also possible. We have …
Planning 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 Educators. This report evolved from the collabor…
Hosts 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 of Professor Dede of Harvard University…
The 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, inexperienced teachers challenged with teaching …
In 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 the social, cultural, educational, and …
STEM 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 Education and Information Studies. Her wor…
Hosts 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 Should Have Learned from the Pandemic
Lessons 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 teacher educators should have learned from …
Untangling 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 learning, resulting in several edited re…
There’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 AI, blended and hybrid learning, learnin…
Educational 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 Professor and Pro Vice-Chancellor. She is fou…
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
Innovative 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 learning.
Mike Sharples, the former Aca…
Self-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. Schooling, in contrast, suppresses these dr…
Let 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, and space for play. They are under more a…
Participatory 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 participatory process in which creativity is…