Born from crisis, building hope—weekly conversations transforming education for a more humanistic and sustainable future
Silver Lining for Learning (SLL) is an award-winning webinar/podcast series on the future of learning with educators, education leaders, innovators, and learners from across the globe. Each week, SLL brings together diverse voices—from classroom teachers to researchers to students themselves—to challenge assumptions, bridge theory and practice, and inspire actionable solutions for creating more equitable, humanistic, and sustainable learning ecosystems.
Hosted by Chris Dede, Curt Bonk, Lydia Cao, Punya Mishra & Yong Zhao, SLL has won a range of awards, including The AECT Distinguished Development Award (2022), The Outstanding Digital Learning Artifact (2022) and the Annual Achievement Award (2023), and is ranked among the top 100 education-related podcasts.
Episode 254 | Critical AI in K12 Classrooms
Episode 254 | Critical AI in K12 Classrooms with Stephanie Smith Budhai and Marie Heath Today we’re diving into Critical AI in K–12 Classrooms by Stephanie Smith Budhai and Marie K. Heath, a powerful guide helping teachers and students navigate the promises and...
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11/22/25
Critical AI in K12 classrooms
11/29/25
Thanksgiving Break
12/06/25
Community Schools Impact on Student Outcomes: Evidence from California
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...
Episode 228 | Virtual Bridges for Intercultural Learning: The TEC Center Story
Date & Time of show: March 29, 2025, 2pm Eastern (USA), 8 PM Israel; 11am Phoenix Short introduction Intercultural education has never been more vital than in today's divided world. The TEC Center bridges these divides through innovative technology solutions,...
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....
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...
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