AWARDS & RECOGNITION
AECT Distinguished Development (2022)
Outstanding Digital Learning Artifact (2022)
Annual Achievement Award (2023)
Top 100 Education Podcasts
Episode 258 | A guide to AI in schools: Perspectives for the perplexed
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...
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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08/16/25 SLL is on break
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08/23/25 Noon ET
Learning to Create: Inside the world’s leading art and design schools with Keith Sawyer & Steve DeFrank
08/30/25 Special episode
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Episode 243 | Transforming Education with AI & Digital Technologies in India
This Episode will air at Saturday, August 30th at 10:00 am EDT Transforming Education with AI in India with Dr. Vinnie Jauhari, Ms. Swati Ganguly and Ms. Meenakshi Uberoi India stands at the cusp of a transformative era in education, fueled by the integration of AI...
Episode 242 | Learning to Create: Inside the World’s Leading Art and Design Schools
Join renowned creativity researcher, Keith Sawyer, and award winning artist and educator, Steve DeFrank, for an exploration of how the world's leading art and design schools teach creativity. Sawyer brings insights from his interviews with over 100 professional...
Episode 241 | CAMFED: A pan-African movement revolutionizing how girls’ education is delivered
This Episode will be recorded Tuesday November 25th at 8 am EST CAMFED: A pan-African movement revolutionizing how girls’ education is delivered with Angeline Murimirwa and Josephine Naab Pollu On this episode, CAMFED CEO Angeline (Angie) Murimirwa will share her...
Episode 240 | Hosts Reflect
Hosts Reflect | August 2, 2025, Noon Eastern. https://youtu.be/13QKafHd4ow
Episode 239 | Mobile Learning & GenAI for the Less Privileged, Refugees, & the Global South
Episode 239 | Mobile Learning & GenAI for the Less Privileged, Refugees, and the Global South 7/26/2025, 11 AM Eastern. Abstact: In Episode #239 of Silver Lining for Learning, we will have a conversation with three people who a decade or two ago were at the...
Episode 238 | Growing Evidence, Growing Impact: How EdTech Hub Connects the Local and Global
This Episode will air at 10 am EDT on Saturday July 19th Growing Evidence, Growing Impact: How EdTech Hub Connects the Local and Global with Amal Hayat and Asad Rahman As education systems around the world navigate increasing challenges from climate disruptions and...
Episode 237 | CAREducation: Living the Standard through the Care Revolution
Episode 237 | CAREducation: Living the Standard through the Care Revolution, 12pm Eastern, 7/12/2025 Curiosity and compassion have been central to thriving collaborative learning since the beginning of civilization. CARE Academy is a project-based learning community...
Episode 236 | Beyond Bricks: Hyper-Personalised Pathways for Gen Z Learners
Episode 236: Beyond Bricks: Hyper-Personalised Pathways for Gen Z Learners What happens when you stop treating school buildings as the centre of learning and start treating the learner as the centre instead? In this episode we meet the founders of Beyond 8—and one of...
Episode 235 | Blended is Best: Case Studies on Blended Learning in Higher Education
Episode 235| Blended is Best: Case Studies on Blended Learning in Higher Education, 11 am Eastern, 6/21/2025 Blended learning has been growing for decades. As it does, the models, frameworks, policies, and pedagogical innovations are constantly evolving. Fortunately,...
Episode 234 | App Inventor: Transforming Tech Consumers into Community Innovators
App Inventor is a free, open-source web platform that empowers people of all ages to create mobile applications and make a meaningful impact on their communities. Built on over 15 years of research and development by MIT and Google, App Inventor helps users become...
Episode 233 | Mi Amigo is Khanmigo: “60 Minutes” of Fame for Hobart, Indiana Schools
Episode 233| Finding an Intellectual Amigo in Khanmigo: "60 Minutes" of Fame for Hobart, Indiana Schools, 12 Noon Eastern, 5/17/2025 In Episode #233 of Silver Lining for Learning we feature Khanmigo, a highly discussed AI-powered online tutor. Proponents contend that...
Episode 232 | Generation of Change: Empowering Afghan Girls and Women Through Online Education
Episode 232| Generation of Change: Empowering Afghan Girls and Women Through Online Education,12 Noon Eastern, 5/3/2025 We live in an age of many educational and societal changes; some even transformative. During the past five years, Silver Lining for Learning (SLL)...
Episode 231 | Stepping Up: Refugees in Need of Higher Education and So Much More
Episode 231| Stepping Up: Refugees in Need of Higher Education and So Much More,12 Noon Eastern, 4/19/2025 With climate change, political unrest, wars, famine, there are countless people experiencing forced migration today as well as others impacted by the suspension...
Episode 230 | Rewriting Foreign Language Education through AI
This Episode will air Saturday April 12th at 12 pm EDT Rewriting Foreign Language Education through AI with Nicole Mills, Arnaud Dressen, and Hannah Kim As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly integrated into educational contexts, its potential to support—not...
Episode 229 | A Meeting of the Minds of Educational Technology Editors
Episode #229: A Meeting of the Minds of Educational Technology Editors, 5 pm Eastern, 4/5/2025 In Episode #229 of Silver Lining for Learning (SLL), we will explore the topic of editing journals in the field of learning, design, and technology. In this hour, we will...
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