AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS
AECT Distinguished Development (2022)
Outstanding Digital Learning Artifact (2022)
Annual Achievement Award (2023)


Episode 227 | Celebrating the past 5 Years to the Future… Which has arrived!
Episode 227: Celebrating the Past Five Years to the Future...Which has Arrived March 22, 2025 11am Eastern In Episode #227, the Silver Lining for Learning Co-hosts reflect on the transformative (and not so transformative) changes in education of the past five years....
Silver Lining for Learning (SLL) is an ongoing conversation on the future of learning with educators, education leaders, innovators, and learners from across the globe. Hosted by Chris Dede, Curt Bonk, Lydia Cao, Punya Mishra & Yong Zhao, these conversations began under the “dark cloud” of the COVID19 crisis and continue today. We see these conversations as an opportunity to discuss the creation of equitable, humanistic and sustainable learning ecosystems that meet the needs of all learners. These conversations are typically recorded every Saturday. The videos are archived on this website and the conversations are also available in podcast form on all major podcast apps.
More about the mission and history of SLL can be found in this article: Silver Lining for Learning as a bottom up driver of innovation.
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Episode 227: 03/22/25 11am ET
Celebrating the past 5 years to the future… Which has arrived.
Episode 228: 03/29/25
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Episode 229: 04/05/25
Trends in edtech researchwith editors of leading Journals
Episode 226 | 5 Year Anniversary Episode
Episode 226 | 5 Year Anniversary Episode - March 15, 2025 - Noon Eastern with the hosts. Celebrating 5 years of Silver Lining for Learning. https://youtu.be/_7CrbVY55s8
Episode 225 | Everyday AI: Teacher perspectives on AI education & professional development for advancing AI literacy
Episode 225 | Everyday AI: Teacher perspectives on AI education & professional development for advancing AI literacy with guests Wanda Jones, Racquel Herring and Kate Moore will be recorded on March 8, 2025 at noon. Brief introduction: Join us as we explore...
Episode 224 | Digital Caregivers: Finding Meaning with Social Robots
Episode 224 | Digital Caregivers: Finding Meaning with Social Robots, 12 Noon Eastern, 2/22/2025 In Episode #224 of Silver Lining for Learning (SLL), David Crandall and Selma Šabanović, from Indiana University Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering...
Episode 223 | The National AI Institute for Adult Learning and Online Education (AI-ALOE): Featuring Jill Watson
This Episode will air at 12:00 pm EST on Saturday February 15 Participants: Ashok Goel (AI-ALOE), Sandeep Kakar (AI-ALOE), and Kristy Singletary (Southern Regional Technical College of Georgia) The National AI Institute for Adult Learning and Online Education...
Episode 222 | Preparing educators for the AI revolution: A status report from CRPE
The Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) is at the forefront of understanding how school districts are implementing AI technologies and addressing critical gaps in teacher preparedness. Their research explores the complex landscape of AI adoption in schools,...
Episode 221 | Responsible and Collaborative AI from MIT STEP Lab
Responsible and Collaborative AI from MIT STEP Lab February 1, 2025 In this episode, we will hear from the MIT STEP Lab on two of their AI initiatives: Collaborative Artificial Intelligence for Learning (CAIL) and RAICA (Responsible AI for Computational Action)....
Episode 220: Workforce Development through the Technical College System of Georgia
This Episode will air at 12 pm EST on January 25, 2025 Workforce Development through the Technical College System of George with Dr. Andrea Daniel - President Athens Technical College; Adie Shimandle, Executive Director - the Technical College Directors Association of...
Episode 219 | Finding a HERO in Taiwan in Open and Online Education
Episode 219 | Finding a HERO in Taiwan in Open and Online Education, 7 pm Eastern, 1/18/2025 Episode #219 of Silver Lining for Learning will focus on Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) and open education in Taiwan. We will have guests from the Research Center of...
Episode 218 | The Brilliant Global Gem Called Christel House
Episode 218 | The Brilliant Global Gem Called Christel House, 11 am Eastern, 1/11/2025 Silver Lining for Learning will start 2025 with a phenomenal project called Christel House International (https://christelhouse.org/) involving youth around the world. Christel...
Episode 217 | Hosts Reflect
Hosts reflect on the past year and on the year coming up ahead. We covered a lot of ground in this episode - from hybrid learning to AI to looking for silver linings in the smallest of spaces. A great fun conversation and a great way to welcome the new year! ...
Episode 216 | Preparing Educators for Online Global Collaborative Learning
Episode 216 Preparing Educators for Online Global Collaborative Learning, 5 pm Eastern, 12/14/2024 Are you curious with how we might ‘flatten’ the learning landscape to provide student choice, accessibility, and equivalence through multiple global learning...
Episode 215 | Goodwill and the Dignity of Work: A hybrid-era renewal for a 120-year old model
This Episode will air at 12 pm EST on December 7th, 2024 Goodwill and the Dignity of Work: A hybrid-era renewal for a 120-year old model] with Jenny Taylor, Chief Mission Officer and Vice President of Career Services at Goodwill of North Georgia and Nick Espinosa,...
Episode 214 | The National AI Institute for Exceptional Education
This Episode will air on Saturday November 23rd at Noon EST The National AI Institute for Exceptional Education with Jinjun Xiong, Sean Redmond, and Dancheng Liu Nearly 3.4 million children require speech and language services under the Individuals with Disabilities...
The Future of Learning: Competency-Based Education and Technology with Susan Patrick
Episode 213|The Future of Learning: Competency-Based Education and Technology with Susan Patrick Episode Description: In the last decade, education has exhibited a call for sweeping transformation across K-12, postsecondary, and workforce training, marked by the need...
Episode 212 | Hybrid Intelligence: Human-AI Co-Evolution & Learning in Multi-Realities
Episode 212 | Hybrid Intelligence: Human-AI Co-Evolution & Learning in Multi-Realities November 2, 2024 | Noon Eastern As AI reshapes the landscape of the world, workforce, and education, there emerges an imperative for Hybrid Intelligence—where human and AI...
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