Over six years, Silver Lining for Learning (SLL) has explored powerful ideas about learning, technology, and educational change. In this episode, faculty and graduate students from the University of Houston share a collaborative inquiry project in which they mined the...

Episode 271: Democratic Schools and learning environments: A global perspective Linda Nathan, Jonathan Mendonca, Gus Rojas Ayala are the co-editors of the book “Designing Democratic Schools and Learning Environments”. Through the book they study 38 schools from 14...

Episode #270 | Reimagining Computing Education in the Age of Generative AI will be recorded on May 2, 2026 at 10 am (EDT). Professor Mark Guzdial from the University of Michigan reminds us that field of "computer science" was first invented as a discipline or subject...

Episode #269 | Still Searching for the NSSE? Reflections on the National Survey of Student Engagement will be recorded on April 24, 2026 at 11 am (EDT). Every week and sometimes each day. we encounter debates about student engagement and overall learning experiences...

How can students move beyond learning about AI to actively shaping it? In this episode, Kellie Kreiser and Euvin Naidoo share how the Thunderbird School of Global Management at ASU is engaging students as co-creators of AI tools, research, and real-world applications....

Exploring Students Exploring in a "Week Without Walls" will be recorded March 28, 2026 at 7pm (EDT). As we start off our seventh season of Silver Lining for Learning (SLL), it is important to reflect back on all of our episodes to date. One of the SLL Co-Hosts, Punya...

Celebrating 6 years of SLL with our hosts. To be recorded March 21, 2026, Noon Eastern. One of the things discussed during this celebratory episode is the analysis we conducted on all 265 previous episodes. All that and more can be found at Analyzing Silver Lining for...

Episode 265 12 noon EST, March 7, 2026 At some point in your lives, you likely wanted to be a pioneer at something and you likely wanted it to be impactful. In this episode of Silver Lining for Learning, we are joined by three online learning pioneers and digital...

Episode 264 1 pm EST, February 28, 2026 Ever play in a sandbox? If so, was it fun. In Episode #264 we will hear from Patricia Mangeol who is the Director of Research and Digital Learning Initiatives at Sandbox Inc., a Canadian agency focused on helping public and...

On January 14, a research report on AI uses in schools was released by Brookings, This report, entitled A new direction for students in an AI world: Prosper, prepare, protect, focused on Gen AI and students learning and development. It has an interesting conclusion:...

If you want to know what some of the best education thinkers think about the state of education, educational changes, effective teaching and learning, equity and excellence, new technologies etc., one of the places is The Brainwaves Video Anthology on YouTube created...

  This Episode will air at 12 pm ET on Saturday February 7th Why AI in Education Needs Standards: Interoperability, Context, and Learner Impact with Michael Feldstein, 1EdTech Chief Strategy Officer; Blaine Helmick, 1EdTech Vice President of Software; and Suzanne...

Episode #260 at 12/noon EST Saturday January 31 It has been a couple of years since the team from Silver Lining for Learning (SLL) explored the status of online learning. In Episode #260 of SLL, we will hear about the targeted growth of online learning at Indiana...

This Episode will air on Saturday January 24, 2026 at noon ET. Can AI transform education systems in the Global South? with Fernando Reimers, Zainab Azim, Maria-Renee Palomo and Callysta Thony This episode of Silver Lining for Learning features a deep dive into a new...

Episode #257 at 5 pm Saturday January 17 “A guide to AI in schools: Perspectives for the perplexed.” AI literacy is perplexing, everyone seems to want it taught, but few people can adequately describe or define it. AI is also different than the arrival of previous...