01 Apr What I’ve been up to: Silver Lining for Learning
[I’ve been fairly quiet here during the pandemic. However, that doesn’t mean that I haven’t been busy. I thought that I would share a little of what I’ve been doing for the past year…]
Last March about this time, Yong Zhao, Chris Dede, Punya Mishra, Curtis Bonk, Shuangye Chen, and I launched Silver Lining for Learning. The initiative was meant to highlight interesting technology-enabled learning around the world and to spark some discussions about schooling possibilities during the pandemic and afterward. Although I bowed out after Episode 32 due to other commitments, my colleagues have done an absolutely fantastic job of keeping the dialogues going.
Below is a list of the first year’s worth of episodes. You will see that Silver Lining for Learning has addressed a wide range of topics. One of the strengths of the project is its incredible global emphasis and reach. If you want to learn from and interact with other educational innovators around the world – and hear about some really interesting learning and teaching happening elsewhere – Silver Lining is a wonderful place to start. I love that numerous guest bloggers have been willing to share their experiences as well.
The site just got a new look for Year 2, and Yong, Chris, Punya, Curt, and Shuangye do an excellent job of sparking rich conversation with their inspiring guests. I am honored to have helped launch this initiative and hope that you will subscribe to the blog and join the hosts for their weekly discussions (which also are archived for later viewing).
Year 1 Episodes
- Introduction and overview
- Where (when) there is no school
- Delivering education when schools are closed: Lessons from China
- Using COL and cool open education resources
- Rethinking school with Will Richardson
- Making sense of our last 4 guest episodes
- Powerful learning with universal access: Uruguay’s CEIBAL program
- Rethinking education with great questions
- The view from Italy
- Crisis, drift, and new paradigms for public education
- Reflecting on our past few guests
- Large-scale learning environments: Writers in the secret garden
- Remote teaching and home learning in South Korea and Singapore
- ISTE innovators in the pandemic: Reflections and actions
- Student voices
- Reflecting on our past few guests
- Educator simulations
- The view from Israel
- Educational innovation for equity and immersive learning in Africa
- Transforming education in Australia and beyond
- Reflecting on our past episodes (and some new directions)
- A conversation with Stephen Heppell
- Immersive simulations and stealth assessment
- Blended and online learning with Catlin Tucker
- Making contact with Contact North
- Reflecting on our past few guests
- More lessons from China
- MOOCs and open education in Southeast Asia
- Student voices
- It’s a world of learning at the World Bank
- How the pandemic can accelerate scaling educational innovations
- Hosts reflect on past four episodes
- Nepali high school students in MOOCs
- Interactive XR learning aids in Myanmar and beyond
- Cross-school collaboration: The Global Online Academy
- Inspiring examples to overcome education inequality in Turkey
- Puerto Rico: Overcoming catastrophes, COVID, and corruption
- Fostering local-to-global courses through MOOCs
- A break in the ice: One person’s journey to save the last ocean
- Reflecting on 2020 with the hosts
- Making education change a reality: Gabriel Rshaid from Argentina
- Outreach of the penguins with science educator Jean Pennycook
- Designing for learners to take charge: Kiran Sethi and Aakash Sethi
- Reflections on the 60 year curriculum with Rovy Branon
- Hosts’ reflections on past episodes
- Embracing a new paradigm with Dr. Stephen Harris
- The Mobiles for Education Alliance & lessons learned
- Hosts share favorite episodes at the CESI conference
- HyFlex course design: Conditions, controversy & craftsmanship
- Hosts celebrate and reflect on 50 episodes
- Innovative sustainable forest management education in the Asia-Pacific region
- Reaching out and reaching in: East Asian women leaders in educational technology
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