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Hosts reflect, October 5, 2024, Noon eastern

This Episode will air at noon Eastern Daylight time on September 21st, 2024 The iSAT National AI Institute with Thomas Breideband, William R. Penuel, and Mai T. Vu “What should the classroom of the future look like? And what is the role of AI in these classrooms of the future?” These are central...

This episode will air at Noon Eastern on September 14, 2024 The INVITE AI Institute with Charity Freeman, H. Chad Lane, and Blair Lehman In this episode, we discuss the NSF-IES INVITE AI Institute that seeks to address the question of how AI-enabled educational technologies can address the grand...

Episode 206 | Open Education at Scale: Stories from the Open University of China, 8 pm Eastern, 9/7/2024 Anyone seeking a degree from a higher education institution today realizes that learning is more open and available (often for free) with the push of a button or blink of an eye. Not...

Episode 205 | Democratizing & Accelerating AI: Upskilling for Workforce Digital Inclusion 8 pm Eastern, 8/31/2024 AI is changing the world of business as fast, if not more so, as the world of education. In Episode #205 of Silver Lining for Learning, Dr. Shameem Farouk will discuss how AI is...

Episode 204: Migrant Education and Global Citizenship on the Thai/Myanmar Border, August 24, 2024, 12 noon Eastern Episode #204 of Silver Lining for Learning will explore global citizenship education (GCE) broadly, and education on the Thai/Myanmar border specifically. Andrew Swindell and Wanida...

Episode 203: Redesigning Education and Living Meaningfully (REALM), August 17, 2024, 12:00 pm Eastern Time/9:00 am (Pacific Time) The REALM is working to redefine what school means by offering real-world project-based classes, taught by teachers passionate about their subject matter, offered on a...

Episode 202: Hosts reflect | This episode will air August 10, 2024, at Noon Eastern https://youtu.be/FkS5p-tE1To    

Date & Time of show: August 3, 2024, Noon Eastern  As we kick off our 201st episode of the Silver Lining for Learning (SLL) webinar series, we're turning our attention to the future of education. Over the past 200 episodes, we've explored a wide range of topics and heard from educators,...

This episode will air, July 27, 2024 at 11 AM Eastern Celebrating our 200th episode of the Silver Lining for Learning (SLL) webinar series is a milestone that speaks for itself. Over the past four years, we've had the privilege of hosting educators, students, and innovators from around the world,...

Episode 199: Connecting Alternative Education Around the World: The WEquil App Story, July 20, 2024, 12:00pm Eastern Time Frustrated by the challenges of remote learning during the pandemic, two young sisters—Sumay Lu, 14, and Aila Lu, 11—took matters into their own hands. Instead of waiting for...

Episode #198 | Universities in Flux to Capture and Keep Adult Learners, July 13, 2024, 11 am Eastern Given student demographics and fast changing societal needs, it is extremely difficult today for higher education institutions to maintain enrollments and even harder to grow them. In Episode #198...

Episode 197: The Future of E-Learning in Post-COVID Africa, June 29, 2024, 11 am Eastern Learning is changing. It is changing every day. It is changing in North America. It is changing in western Australia. It is changing in the Middle East. It is changing in Latin America and throughout South...

Episode 196 will air Noon Eastern on June 15, 2024 https://youtu.be/mSrz8fFUjik  

  This Episode will air at 11 am EDT on Saturday June 8th Using 21st Century Online Learning to Teach Girls in Afghanistan with Timothy Stiven, Jasmin Azizi, and Andishvar Mohibi Since April 2021, Timothy Stiven is leading an initiative in which high school students have been redefining the...

 This Episode will air at 12 pm EDT on June 1, 2024 Social-Emotional skills in Chilean classrooms with Francisca Astudillo, Francisca Sáez and Sofía Larraín Social-emotional skills are widely recognized as vital tools for youth to thrive in society, sparking a growing interest in integrating their...

Champions of Robotics Episode 193, Saturday May 25 at 12 noon Eastern Some of the most powerful principles of learning in the 21st century relate to collaboration and teamwork, hands-on doing, and learning relevancy and meaningfulness. As such, Episode #193 of Silver Lining for Learning promises...

Hypothetically Speaking: What-if the Entire World had Connected Camps in Minecraft? Episode 192, Saturday May 11 at 12 noon Eastern What-if Hypothetical Implementations of Minecraft (Project WHIMC) is the brainchild of Chad Lane and Jeff Ginger at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (see...

Episode 191 | Hosts reflect Noon Eastern, May 4, 2024. https://youtu.be/tdnXGyJadO0   Episode 191 of Silver Lining for Learning featured a conversation between Yong Zhao, Chris Dede, and Curt Bonk. They discussed the rapidly evolving role of AI in education,  emphasizing the importance of...

Episode 190, Saturday April 27 at 7 pm Eastern Attend Episode 190 of Silver Lining for Learning (SLL) and learn about the mission and history of EDvantage Digital Learning Systems (ELDS). In particular, you will discover how ELDS provides digitally operated one room schoolhouses for...

Episode 189, Saturday April 20 at 6 pm Eastern Special Issue; Special Show: Exploring Higher Education Futures at the Intersection of Hope, Justice, and EdTech Session Abstract: In Episode #189 of Silver Lining for Learning, we will explore a special issue of the International Journal of...

Episode 188, Saturday April 6 at 12:00 Noon Eastern, The Conversation Continues: The U.S. DoE National Educational Technology Plan Part 2: The Future Session Abstract (with assistance from ChatPDF as well as ChatGPT). Part 2 of the conversation on the US National Educational Technology Plan 2024...

Episode 187, Friday March 29 at 3:30 pm Eastern, A Conversation about the U.S. Dept of Education National Educational Technology Plan Session Abstract (with assistance from ChatPDF). Need a comprehensive framework for addressing various ways to access, design, and use of technology in education,...

Episode 186 | Celebrating 4 years of SLL Part II Noon Eastern | March 23, 2024 with guests Shirley Eadie, Khendum Gyabak & Aakash Sethi In this episode we celebrate 4 years of Silver Lining for Learning and we are joined by some of our previous guests to catch up with them and to just have a...

Episode 185 | Celebrating 4 years of SLL. 11 AM Eastern | March 16, 2024 with guests Pasi Sahlberg, Ariadne Trapote & Lin Lin Lipsmeyer. In this episode we celebrate 4 years of Silver Lining for Learning and we are joined by some of our previous guests to catch up with them and to just have a...

Note time: March 9, 2024. 10 AM Eastern (8:30 PM in India) Brief introduction: Join us as we delve into the transformative world of educational spaces with Prakash Nair, AIA and Dr.Parul Minhas, whose pioneering work is reshaping the way we think about learning environments. Extended Introduction:...

Episode 183 | Hosts reflect Noon Eastern, March 2, 2024. https://youtu.be/SEyjzs9iJ4A  

Episode 182 | Generative AI in Higher Education: The ASU Journey with Lev Gonick & Elizabeth Reilley, Arizona State University February 24, 2024, Noon Eastern Guests: Lev Gonick, Chief Information Officer and Elizabeth Reilley, Executive Director AI Acceleration at ASU join us for a...

We have been following initiatives that empower students to go beyond their traditional schools and classrooms, beyond their traditional pedagogies, and their traditional learning partners. We featured an initiative of Digital Promise that involved students in the United States in Episode 177 and...

This episode will run February 10, 2024 at 10 am EST. Can Technology Transform Education in Southeast Asia? with Manos Antonisis, Director, Global Education Monitoring Report UNESCO, Mary Burns, Expert in technology and author of the thinkpiece for the 2023 GEM Report, and John Arnold S. Siena,...

Transforming education is never easy but transformation is necessary. How to personalize education for every student? How to engage students in identifying and solving problems worth solving? How to connect students across school and cultural boundaries so they can learn from, with, and for each...

Episode 178 Saturday January 27 at 11:00 am Eastern, The Rwanda Wildlife Film-making Course: Documenting Mountains of Gorillas In 2007, David McGowan from Chicago was in Uganda filming a documentary about Envirovet, an organization that brings veterinary medicine to wildlife health. A Ugandan...

We have come to a time that students have been gradually recognized and accepted as purposeful, intentional, active, and capable individuals rather than simple recipients of instruction. Increasingly more schools and organizations have developed programs that advocate and promote student voice and...

Episode 176 | Hosts reflect & Look Forward to the New Year Noon Eastern, January 13, 2024. https://youtu.be/fcQWIDpAS98  

November 18, 2023: Noon eastern.   https://youtu.be/uM9iOUVXo-0    

 Episode 174 Saturday November 11 at noon EST, Immersive Learning "Found in the Fjords" of Norway In Episode #174 of Silver Lining for Learning, Louise Edwards (lead developer and 3D artist) and her teammate Tiffany Duong (writer) will take us on an adventure (or edventure) into the fjords of...

Episode 173 Saturday November 4 at 3:30 pm EST, Refugees as Tutors. Refugees as Teachers: WISE Award Winner NaTakallam We are living in a world where tens of millions of people are being displaced or finding themselves as refugees each year. Such a world needs new educational and employment models...

This episode will run October 28, 2023 at Noon eastern. The Rapid Expansion and Impact of The Digital School (TDS) with Dr. Waleed Al-Ali, Secretary General, TDS; Dr. Fuzan Al-Khalidi, Strategy and Organizational Development Advisor, TDS; and Dr. Lesley Snowball, Educational Director, TDS From the...

Educational transformation is very difficult, if not impossible, to achieve because of the diversity of views on how schools should operate. Typically, when changes are about to happen, they are intended to apply to every student and teacher in the school. In other words, the change is for the...

Episode 170 | Hosts Reflect Noon Eastern, October 14. 2023 https://youtu.be/nvo6qD6JK30

This Episode will air at 11 am EDT on Saturday October 7th Transformations Shaping Education in the MENA Region (Middle East & North Africa) with Shireen Yacoub (Istidama Consulting),  Elyas Felfoul (Qatar Foundation/ WISE), and Rami Qubain (PWC) In this episode, we navigate the intricate...

This episode will air on Saturday 9/30/2023 at Noon Eastern Discontent with traditional one-size-fits-all education and the COVID-19 pandemic have stimulated a variety of innovate efforts to create new educational possibilities. Among them is the Hub created by Luba Vangelova, an education writer,...

This Episode will air at 12 pm EDT on Saturday September 23 Experiential Learning and its Potential Impact on our Postsecondary Ecosystem with Howard Lurie, Senior Vice President for Research and Evaluation, Academic Programs International (API) &the API Foundation and Anastasia Vrachnos, Vice...

Episode #166. Saturday September 16, 2023, 11:00 Eastern NOTE: Our apologies, due to technical error (i.e. forgetting to hit record) we do not have this episode archived. Oops! We do include some screenshots from the Zoom call below - just because. During the past year, you might have spent some...

Episode 165 | 4 Day School with John Kuhn Noon Eastern, 9/9/2023 A group of U.S. schools has implemented a 4-day school week. The number of school districts that offer 4 school days has grown significantly over the past 3 decades, from mere hundreds in the 1990s to over 1600 in more than 20 states...

This Episode will air at 12 pm EDT on Saturday August 26th Leading Edge Immersive Learning in Higher Education with Marcy Drummond, Greg Heilberger, and Jonathon Richter The hype and promise of immersive learning such as virtual reality or augmented reality has been around for decades. Immersive...

Episode #163. Saturday August 19, 2023, 11:00 Eastern Contemporary Education and Changing Culture in Ukraine The war raging in Ukraine has been front page news for the past 18 months. The co-hosts at Silver Lining for Learning (SLL) have been concerned about the educational situation in Ukraine;...

August 12, 2023 Noon Eastern Danielle McNamara, Scotty Craig, and Rod Roscoe join the SLL Team to discuss the emerging field of learning engineering—and discuss innovative methodologies to optimize educational experiences and leverage technology for improved learning outcomes. Learning engineering...

Human Restoration Project: Reimagining Education with Future Forward Thinking As activist and author adrienne maree brown urges us, to “...fight for the future, get into the game, get dirty, get experimental…” – we need reimagined schools and public education now more than ever. Urgent problems...

Episode 160. Hosts reflect This episode aired on July 29, 2023 at noon, Eastern. https://youtu.be/PlLKPi7wu8k  

Episode #159. Saturday July 22, 2023, 11:00 Eastern Are you wondering if your language needs a boost? Attend Episode #159 of Silver Lining for Learning and get some answers. In fact, in this episode, we will chat with Fabrício Cararro, speaker of 14 languages, and Lucas Bighetti, speaker of 16...

Episode 158 | Saturday July 15, 2023, 11:00 Eastern Episode #158 will highlight a design-first approach to online and digital education taken at the University of Leeds in the UK. Two initiatives will be shared, Curriculum Redefined and the strategic growth of Online Learning. Jeff Grabill, Deputy...

Episode 157 | The Little Bookmates Smart Library as a Literacy Initiatitive This episode will air on Saturday July 8, at noon EDT. The Little Bookmates Smart Library as a Literacy Initiative with Ariadna Trapote and Federico Suarez. If the large majority of printed books in the world are in many...

This Episode will air at 11am ET, on Saturday 24 June Preparing Children in Africa for a Fast-Changing World with  Ms Shirley Eadie, Ms Salome Wenyaa, and Ms Hana Yoshimoto The world is undergoing rapid changes across multiple sectors, driven by trends such as digitalization, migration,...

Hosts reflect: June 17, 2023, 10 AM Eastern https://youtu.be/-5d30D7fB4s  

Episode #154. Saturday June 10, 2023, 10:00-11:00 am Eastern As Martin Weller argued in his insightful free and open book nearly a decade ago, we educators find ourselves in a battle for open. Many of us are contributing to the battle for openness by publishing in open access journals or making...

Episode #153. Saturday June 3, 2023, 12:00 noon Eastern Credentials. Seems everyone wants more credentials these days in a quest to find value in this fast-changing world. And they have scant time to wait for them or to move to a campus-based program. Coursera has its various “Specializations” and...

Episode #152. Saturday May 27, 2023, 11:00 noon Eastern The notion of open educational resources (OER) as well as opencourseware (OCW) sprung up on April 4, 2001 when Charles Vest, President of MIT, declared let’s make education free and put all our courses on the internet for people to browse and...

Date / Time: May 20, 2023, 8 PM (Eastern); 5 PM AZ; 10AM Sunday Melbourne introduction: Education is typically considered a human right but for 450 million young people living in conflict zones around the world, schooling is an early casualty of war. Online education provides opportunity and hope...

  This Episode will air at Saturday, May 13th, 2023 at 12:00pm EDT How the Dominican Republic Overcame Educational Challenges of the Pandemic with guests María Waleska Álvarez from EDUCA and Eladio Jimenez from UNICEF This episode will discuss the Dominican Republic's innovations in...

This Episode will air on Saturday May 6th at 8 pm EDT Applying Human-Centered Engineering Methods to Learning with Jim Goodell, Janet Kolodner, and Sae Schatz “Learning engineering is a process and a practice that applies the learning sciences, using human-centered engineering design methodologies...

This Episode will air at 11 am EDT on Saturday April 29th The Finnish Way - Preparing university students for life with Ulla Hemminki-Reijonen, Kati Kettunen, and Outi Toijala When talking about Finland, the discussion always begins with the welfare society and quality pre-college education. But...

Hosts Reflect | April 22, 2023 - Noon Eastern https://youtu.be/cgMltz8BGvM    

Episode 146 | Saturday April 1, 2023, 12:00 noon Eastern In Episode #145 of Silver Lining for Learning, Sophia Mendoza, Paul Kim, Kiran Bit Sethi, and Shuangye Chen discuss what the future of education might look like with a three-year lens. In Episode #146 we welcome back prior SLL guests Maxim...

Episode 145. Saturday March 25, 2023, 12:00 noon Eastern What is the future of education? Thousands of people have been pondering that since the start of the pandemic three years ago. The guests and hosts at Silver Lining for Learning (SLL) have been pondering that since March 21, 2021. In this...

Celebrating 3 years of Silver Lining for Learning with the Podcast Crew, Toks Bakare, Lea Anne Daughrity, Ragini Lall, Annie Nam, March 18, Noon Eastern In this episode of SLL, we are celebrating 3 years of the series with Toks Bakare, Lea Anne Daughrity, Ragini Lall, and Annie Nam. They call...

Note: Episode will air at 11 AM Eastern, March 11, 2023 Episode 143 | Creating Open, immersive, relevant & responsive learning at scale Our guests (Ariel Anbar and Norman Bier) propose a promising solution for tackling complex concepts in education: creating immersive, adaptive, and open...

Episode #142. Saturday March 4, 2023, 5:30 pm Eastern Through The Staff (TTS) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in the United States created in the first weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic. TTS aims to connect 2nd-12th grade students with volunteer university musicians from around the...

Hosts Reflect | February 25, 2023 - 5:30 PM ET https://youtu.be/MBO4BxDfLmg  

Episode #140. Saturday February 18, 2023, 11:00 am Eastern Since the Taliban took over Afghanistan in 2021, higher education has become increasingly limited for young women and often suspended and banned. According to a January 24, 2023 article in Inside Higher Ed, Reviving the College Dreams of...

Episode 139 | Saturday February 11, 2023, 5:30 pm Eastern Many job roles and responsibilities are rapidly changing here in the third decade of the twenty-first century. According to a December 19, 2022 article in the Evolllution, A Time for Learning Experience Designers, Mark Milliron, President...

Episode will air February 4, 2023 at 10 AM Eastern. (Please note different time). Designing experiential learning at scale in India The dominant schooling system in India today is a product of the colonial era. It follows the factory model of education and emphasizes rote learning. But in a future...

Episode #137. Saturday January 28, 5:30 pm Eastern https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjVq0Q2LMYM Issues of social and emotional learning have always been a critical cornerstone of schooling. In particular, mental health and well-being had already become a rising concern for young people prior to the...

Episode #136. Saturday January 21, 5:30 pm Eastern https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9COY_Z_wVXk How the Pandemic has shaped Leading Universities’ Integration of Digital Learning with Bharat Anand, Cindy Behrtram, and Janet Rankin How is the pandemic changing the ways leading universities integrate...

Hosts Reflect | January 14, 2023 | 5:30 PM ET https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwyN4y6cTP8

Episode #134. Saturday January 7, 5:30 pm Eastern What might the future of education look like? Google for Education collaborated with research partner Canvas8 to conduct a study across 24 countries on the future of education. The result is a three-part global report highlighting insights from...

SLL will be off for the rest of December. We will be back on January 7, 2023. Till then have a great break and Happy New Year!

Silver Lining for Learning Episode #133 | December 17, 2022 | 5:30 PM Eastern The Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE | crpe.org) is a research organization at Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College. CRPE researches classrooms, schools, and systems to identify the...

A few months ago, a website started popping into my twitter feed. Scholars and colleagues I know and respect were linking to this website called Civics of Technology. And when I visited the site, I immediately understood why. The people behind the website were addressing issues and questions that...

Episode 131 | Saturday December 3, 2022, 5:30 pm Eastern Life is filled with challenges and adventures. Imagine teaching over 10,000 students in a single class. Sounds quite daunting, doesn’t it? Now what if those learners come from 120 different countries with their unique cultural norms,...

Episode 130 | 11 AM Eastern This is the third of three episodes that we are devoting to education in India. As we had said in the introduction to the first of this series (#123 and #129), with 1.4 billion people, 27% of whom are under 15, India has significant educational needs. Its multilingual,...

Introduction to the episode: Note special time 11 AM Eastern This is the second of three episodes that we are devoting to education in India. As we had said in the introduction to the first of this series (#123), with 1.4 billion people, 27% of whom are under 15, India has significant educational...

This Episode will air at 5:30 pm EDT on Saturday November 5th Realizing the Full Benefit of Artificial Intelligence for Education with Charles Fadel Roy Amara of the Institute for the Future is quoted as saying: “We overestimate technology short-term, and underestimate it long-term.”  How does...

Hosts reflect 10/29/2022 5:30 PM EDT. https://youtu.be/zF2CeVQFVwE  

Silver Lining for Learning received two awards at the recently convened AECT conference in Las Vegas. Curt Bonk and I were at the conference to receive the awards. We were also asked make a presentation at the conference. Two different versions of the video of that presentation are given below...

Episode #121. Saturday October 22, 2022, 4:30 pm Eastern School reform and innovation is never easy. In this episode of Silver Lining for Learning, we will meet with Vicky Colbert, a sociologist from Columbia, South America. She is co-author of the worldwide renowned Escuela Nueva model that was...

Democratizing Creative Educational Experiences and Side Effects in Education with Ron Beghetto and Yong Zhao - live on October 15, 2022, 5:30 PM eastern. Creativity has certainly become of the most important topics in the 21st Century, but issues around creativity are far from settled. What is...

This Episode will air at 5:30 pm EDT on Saturday October 8th Microcredentials that Add Value beyond Degrees and Certifications with Katie Sievers, Brittany Storie, and Scott Van Pelt Today, learners face an unprecedented challenge: adapting to a world that is changing more quickly than ever...

India is home to 1.4 billion people, 52% of whom are younger than 30 years of age and 27% are under 15! Clearly there are significant educational needs across the nation. India is also a pluralistic, multilingual and multi-ethnic society with 22 officially recognized languages. Given this scale,...

Hosts reflect 9/24/2022 5:30 PM EDT. - with special guest Lin Lin Lipsmeyer from Southern Methodist University https://youtu.be/B6rjts28Wv0  

Episode #121. Saturday September 17, 2022, 5:30 pm Eastern Abstract Gigantic rocket ships and innovative telescopes are lifting out to space to explore the great unknown. The consensus view since the first airing of Star Trek in September 1966 was that outer space presented humankind with the...

Episode #120. Saturday September 10, 2022, 5:30 pm Eastern Abstract At dinner during this age of the COVID-19 pandemic, have you and your family members discussed educational issues such as virtual schools, the future of education, learner agency and empowerment, learning apprenticeships, world...

This episode will air on August 27, at 8:30 AM Eastern What is the future of education? What should it be? What can it be? How are policy makers in top PISA performing education systems thinking about the future of education? That is the focus of this episode of Silver Lining for Learning. The...

  This Episode will air at 5:30 pm EDT on Saturday August 20th Early Childhood Learning at Scale with Joseph Blatt, Kim Foulds, and Shanna Kohn For more than half a century, Sesame Street has pioneered and evolved a model for early childhood learning at scale. This episode will discuss the...

Hosts reflect 8/13/2022 5:30 PM EDT. https://youtu.be/OTEwvze7vGA

Episode #116. Saturday August 6, 2022, 5:30 am Eastern Abstract In this episode of Silver Lining for Learning (SLL), we take a look at current challenges faced by higher education administrators by talking to one of the leading education research and advisory entities, Eduventures (about). Attend...

Creativity has grown to become one of the most important concepts in education in the 21st Century. However, much research and thinking about creativity remain in the traditional framework developed in the 1950s. Creativity and entrepreneurship education has also been limited for the elite, the...

Episode #114. Saturday July 23, 2022, 11:30 am Eastern (6:30 pm or 18:30 in Kavala, Greece) Abstract This episode of Silver Lining for Learning (SLL) will showcase a series of virtual, augmented, and immersive learning projects being undertaken in the Advanced Educational Technologies and Mobile...

When COVID-19 forced schools to offer remote learning, access to computing devices and the Internet became a significant issue for many children. Although digital divide had been talked about before the pandemic, remote learning made it a paramount issue for schools, teachers, and students....

Hosts reflect 7/9/2022 5:30 PM EDT. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVmdQt-CwX4

We were recently invited to ShapingEDU's Global Virtual Summer Camp to discuss what we have learned through two years of Silver Lining for Learning. ShapingEDU is a global community of over 4,000 passionate and insightful educators, students, researchers, storytellers, edtech creators and...

The episode will air on June 25, 2022 at 5:30 PM Eastern. K-12 schools, especially those known for their own unique educational philosophies and pedagogies, have been working on preparing their own teachers and spreading their philosophies and pedagogies through their own graduate schools. Recent...

  This Episode will air at 5:30 pm EDT on Saturday June 18th Big Data in Education with Avriel Epps-Darling, Andrew Ho, and Katina Michael A large amount of learning happens in digital environments that can preserve data about every click, scroll, and touch. These data can support powerful...

Episode #109. Saturday June 11, 2022, 5:30 pm Eastern Abstract Two months ago, Silver Lining for Learning hosted a show (Episode #103 Don’t Just be Savvy, be World Savvy!) featuring a non-profit organization called World Savvy that focused on engaging students in real-world challenges in their...

This Episode will air at 5:30 pm EDT on Saturday June 4th Strategies from Purpose-Driven Entrepreneurial Women with Kathy Hurley, Bobbi Kurshan, and Nisha Ligon As a woman, how can you foster an entrepreneurial mindset to succeed in business? How do you take an idea, dream or goal and transform it...

Hosts reflect on past episodes 5/21/22 5:30 PM ET. https://youtu.be/h4CJEBc0zOk  

Episode #106. Saturday May 14, 2022, 5:30 pm Eastern This episode of Silver Lining for Learning will highlight global education projects and approaches designed and sponsored by the Centre for Global Education (CGE) in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; see http://tcge.tiged.org/. During the show, we will...

Episode #105. Saturday May 7, 2022, 5:30 pm Eastern COVID appeared, a pandemic arose, the world was impacted, and education delivery for the majority of the world pivoted to online environments - a place where Quality Matters (QM) has worked for the last 15 years to improve the quality of online...

Episode #104. Saturday April 30, 2022, 5:30 pm Eastern This session is focused on attracting students’ interest and engagement in inquiry, meaningful learning, global education, and cross-cultural projects. Broadening students’ world vision as well as strengthening their knowledge about different...

Episode #103. Saturday April 23, 2022, 4:00 pm Eastern (3:00 pm Central)  In this increasingly diverse and globally connected world, global education and exchange opportunities are increasingly vital. Enter World Savvy which is a national nonprofit that works with educators and community leaders...

This Episode will air at 5:30 pm EDT on Saturday April 16th Strategies for Scaling to Achieve Educational Impact with Harvard Professors Monica Higgins and James Honan This session will focus on the challenges and opportunities for scaling innovations in the education sector in a context of...

Episode 101 | Special Episode with guests from past 100 episodes surprise guests - April 9, 2022. 5:30 PM Eastern   https://youtu.be/mOqfoCqCKSQ Toks Bakare is a graduate of the Technology Innovation and Education masters at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. At Harvard, Toks founded...

Episode 100 | Special Episode Celebration with surprise guests - 5:30 PM Eastern 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 https://youtu.be/B1_7b5sRwRs...

This Episode aired at 5:30 pm EDT on Saturday March 26th Mechanisms for Achieving Educational Visions with Drs. Barbara Means and Jeremy Roschelle Where will the field of EdTech be in 5 years, globally? Our guests work at Digital Promise, a nonprofit organization that works across the...

Episode #98. Saturday March 19, 2022, 5:30 am Eastern 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 students to explore real-world authentic problems....

Episode 97, March 12, 2020, 5:30 PM Eastern https://youtu.be/XGXsa-bjmZg  

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 his book Reach for Greatness: Personalizable Education for All Children. Personalizable education...

This episode will air on February 26, 2022 at 5:30 PM EST 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 that is riven by systemic inequities and...

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 disruptions COVID-19 has posted to schooling. In this episode, we invited two superintendents, Dr....

Exploring Modes of Remote Learning in Palestine During the Pandemic with Samaa Haniya, Hassan Abed, and Asmaa Mustafa Education is highly valued in Palestine. According to a data report by the United Nations in 2018, nearly 95.4 percent of children attend schools. Yet, access to a high quality...

Episode 92, February 5, 2020, 5:30 PM Eastern https://youtu.be/tglvNNd7_AA  

This is a study of educational innovations which emerged during the pandemic, examined through the framework of educational change proposed in the recent UNESCO report on the Futures of Education https://en.unesco.org/futuresofeducation/ The book includes 31 case studies examining innovations in a...

This Episode will air at 5 30 pm EST on Saturday January 22nd Technology Education Innovations, from 1 to 1,000 Schools and Beyond, with Kevin Wang and Brett Wortzman Over the past decade, Computer Science (CS) education has been the fastest growing subject area in K-12 and postsecondary...

Episode #89. Saturday January 15, 2022, 5:30 pm Eastern As noted in an October 2021 article in EdSurge, the pandemic allowed many high school students in Colorado to self-direct their learning. Students were learning about cryptocurrency, investing in the stock market, different languages, the...

January 8, 2022 | 5:30 PM Eastern | Hosts reflect and look forward https://youtu.be/gWaDC8mnWIU  

Episode #87. Saturday December 18, 2021, 11:30 pm Eastern Abstract: How can MOOCs reach learners in areas where Internet bandwidth is limited? How can teachers in developing countries, with minimal familiarity with online learning, participate in design and delivery of MOOCs? In their session,...

Episode #86. Saturday December 11, 2021, 11:30 pm Eastern Abstract: We’ve had many shows devoted to K-12 and higher education environments; but how is learning changing in the workplace? In Episode #86, the crew at Silver Lining for Learning will have the opportunity to hear from two professionals...

Episode #85. Saturday December 4, 2021, 11:30 am Eastern Abstract: MOOC discourses originating from the Global North can appear potentially colonizing to educators in the Global South. Even though the initial hype around MOOCs has died down, there is still an overall belief in the liberating...

Hosts reflect: November 27, 2021 | 5:30 PM EDT. https://youtu.be/E-XFPXNaIoY  

Episode #83. Saturday November 13, 2021, 11:30 am Eastern Each of the past 82 episodes of Silver Lining for Learning (SLL) has had a moment or two of contemplation about the future of education and how we humans will learn. This session of SLL will exemplify such contemplations. Noah Sobe, Senior...

This Episode will air at 5 30 pm EDT on Saturday November 6th 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 you do things you can’t do in the...

Episode #81. Saturday October 30, 2021, 7:30 pm EDT 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 VolunONLINE (支教中国2.0), a nonprofit based in Shanghai,...

Hosts reflect on the past 4 episodes  October 23, 2021, 5:30 PM Eastern https://youtu.be/Z5lTdh2NL3Y

Human-Centered Approaches to Education, Philanthropy, and Systems-Change with Charles Dukes, Nora Flood, and Ulcca Hansen 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,...

Designing the Next Education Workforce with Brent Maddin and Krista Adams The default one-teacher-one-classroom model of schooling is unsustainable for most educators. As a result, our education system does not reliably deliver quality learning outcomes and experiences for nearly enough people,...

5:30-6:30pm EDT, Saturday Oct 2nd, 2021 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 different ideas of what the education can be and what we...

Episode #76. Saturday September 25, 2021, 5:30 pm EDT Episode Description. Given the events of the past 20 months, it is time to plan for the blended learning future. Of course, this should be obvious by now. Nicole Weber and Tanya Joosten will do just that in this session. This episode of Silver...

Hosts reflect on the past 4 episodes  September 18, 2021, 3:30 PM Eastern https://youtu.be/BmKCRc2XI_U  

Episode #74. Saturday September 11, 2021, 5:30 pm EDT Abstract: 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 overwhelmingly large class sizes,...

 Episode #73. Saturday August 28, 2021, 5:30 pm EDT Among the different types of education systems that are offered to students around the world, a less talked about educational option is night high schools. The common descriptor for this type of education system is that of a regular public high...

August 21, 5:30 PM Eastern with Guests Mary Jo Madda (Google) and Chelsea Roebuck (Elite Education) Episode Description We need to better understand how formal and informal learning environments respectively address the needs and/or fail to prepare Black, Latino/Hispanic, and native/indigenous...

Hosts reflect on the past 4 episodes  August 14, 2021, 5:30 PM Eastern https://youtu.be/BXV1BXG8MoE  

This Episode will air at 5 30 pm EDT on Saturday August 7th Episode Description The year 2020 revealed many things about 21st century education--some positive and some negative.  Teachers and students from PreK to postsecondary obviously dealt with the COVID-19 pandemic, which forced a close...

Episode #69. Saturday July 31, 2021, 5:30 pm EDT John Carroll’s 1963 article, “A model for school learning,” in Teachers College Record has been cited more than 5,100 times. That conceptual model regarding school learning designates a leading role of time in student achievement and degree of...

Episode #68. Saturday July 24, 2021, 11:00 am EDT 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, learning analytics, microcredentialing, open educational...

Episode #67. Saturday July 17, 2021, 11:30 am EDT; 4:30 pm in the UK Episode Abstract: Without doubt, we are in a world in flux. In this flux-filled world, we educators have difficult choices and challenges in front of us. As such, Silver Lining for Learning is delighted that to have a show...

Hosts reflect on the past 4 episodes with special guest Scott McLeod: Saturday July 10, 2021, 5:30 PM Eastern https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXZo2cSyAo4  

Episode #65. Saturday July 3, 2021, 11:30 am EDT Episode Abstract: Are you wondering if massive open online courses (MOOCs) can be designed for active and engaging learning. FutureLearn from the Open University (OU) in the UK offers a unique example of how this may be done. Mike Sharples, the...

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, suppress these drives through one-size fits all curricula and a pre-determined age-constrained progression. This begs...

Play is considered essential for child development but there is always a strong desire to teach children. Increasingly, children have lost the freedom, time, and space for play. They are under more adult supervision. They are taught more formal academic content. In this episode we have...

Education is always about the future, and since the future is inherently unpredictable, creativity must be an integral part of the educational process. The COVID pandemic is just one of many planet-sized disruptions, which will stress our already inefficient political, economic and cultural...

Hosts reflect on the past 4 episodes: Saturday June 5, 2021, 5:30 PM Eastern https://youtu.be/eM0Qoou7Ips  

This Episode will air at 11:30 am EDT on Saturday May 29th [note different time] Episode Description Uliana Furiv, Associate Project Officer at the UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning, will discuss how flexibility has been important both during COVID-19 and before for enhancing...

Episode #59. Saturday May 22, 2021, 2:30 pm EDT Episode Abstract: Have you heard colleagues talk about University Design for Learning (UDL) and wonder what it is? Are you charged with developing training in your organization or institution related to UDL? Perhaps you are interested in developing...

Episode #58. Saturday May 15, 2021, 12:00 noon EDT (7:00 pm in Finland) Episode Abstract: Is “the world” still open? Why does it sometimes feel that the digitalization of education, datafication, and digital learning platforms raise new impossibilities and paradoxes? For example, can we really...

Technology has played a significant role in special education and has a lot more potential. In this episode we invite the top professors in technology and special education to discuss the past, present, and future of technology in special education. They are also leading the newly funded national...

Episode #56. Saturday May 1, 2021, 7:00 pm EDT Episode Abstract: This show will explore evolving notions of openness in the field of education. David Wiley, Co-founder and Chief Academic Officer, Lumen Learning, has been a leader in the open education movement for over two decades. If an...

Hosts reflect on the past 4 episodes: Saturday April 24, 2021, 5:30 PM Eastern https://youtu.be/mPtWj-j7cKs  

This Episode will air at 5:30 pm EDT on Saturday April 17th Episode Description In this episode, Jeremy Bailenson,  Kristy Kroeker, and Anna Queiroz, will discuss the use of immersive virtual reality to teach about climate change and environmental conservation.  Each of approaches the work from a...

Delivering high quality professional development at scale that builds on new knowledge of learning and the mind is crucial to the future of teaching. In particular, teachers now must master remote and blended instruction as well as classroom interactions. This session describes a design science...

Episode #52. Saturday March 27, 2021, 8:30 pm EST   Abstract. This episode will explore the recent projects and initiatives of three East Asian educational technology leaders, Insung Jung, Ok-hwa Lee, and Meifeng Liu, within their home countries of Japan, Korea, and China as well as their...

Episode #51. Saturday March 20, 2021, 5:30 pm EST The episode of Silver Linking for Learning expands our environment-related conversations to the forests of the world. Those attending this session with learn how the generation and advancement of open educational resources and open courseware is...

Celebration and reflection on the past 50 episodes and plans for the future. https://youtu.be/TMxX8ZKmTto

Episode #49. Saturday March 6, 2021, 5:30 pm EST Have you heard about HyFlex in this blended age? This term is used widely and often with a tint of controversy; especially when teachers are already overwhelmed with student psychological, emotional, technological, and academic needs during the...

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