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 Educational Technology in Higher Education. Edited by a team of experts in the US, Canada, UK, and Australia our guests ponder higher education futures at the intersection of hope, justice, and educational technology. Join us in this thought-intensive session and help us imagine bright and hopeful fu ..read more

Part 2 of the conversation on the US National Educational Technology Plan 2024 delves into the future of educational technology. In particular, our discourse on the US National Educational Technology Plan 2024 will delve into the exciting realm of emerging learning technologies (e.g., AI, immersive learning, microlearning, etc.) and innovative pedagogies and their pivotal role in shaping the future of education, not only here in the United States but throughout the world community. In this follow-up discussion, we will be joined by Greg Bagby who is currently the Coordinator of Instructional T ..read more

Need a comprehensive framework for addressing various ways to access, design, and use of technology in education, you are in luck since the 2024 National Education Technology Plan can be accessed and downloaded for free. You can learn about utilizing principles of University Design for Learning to foster active and engaging learning for all. Learn how you might be able to close the digital divide. You can also learn how to build evidence and capacity among educators to enhance their instructional practices, competencies, and general design approaches and implementations. One might also learn h ..read more

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 good self-congratulatory time. More about about our guests below the video Pasi Sahlberg is Finnish educator, teacher, and author. He has worked as a schoolteacher, teacher-educator, academic, and policymaker in Finland, and he has advised schools and education system leaders around the world. He served as a senior education specialist at the World Bank (Washington, DC), lead education specialist at the European Trainin ..read more

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Arizona State University has been a leader in the higher education space for decades, with its emphasis on innovation, its massive presence in online learning and more. More recently ASU made the news as being the first university to partner with OpenAI (the creators of ChatGPT). In this conversation with Lev Gonick, Chief Information Officer and Elizabeth Reilley, Executive Director AI Acceleration we explore the impact of AI on higher education, what ASU’s plans are in the generative AI space, and what more news we can look forward to in the near future. Guests: Lev Gonick, Chief Information ..read more

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 an initiative of YEE Education that focuses on helping students develop creativity and entrepreneurial thinking in Chongqing and Beijing, China in Episode 179. For next episode, Episode 181, we will feature students and teachers from South Australia. The teachers and students have taken part in the Hu ..read more

Can Technology Transform Education in Southeast Asia, with guests Manos Antoninis, Mary Burns & John Arnold S. Siena ..read more

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 other in the globalized world? These are challenging but meaningful tasks for all school leaders and teachers. Over the past five years, some Chinese schools have embarked on the journey to make significant changes to engage students in a new type of learning. This is especially difficult in a country ..read more

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 research. In this episode, we highlight the work of the Center for Inclusive Innovation of Digital Promise. The students speaking on the show were part of the League of Innovative Students (LOIS), a cohort of 30 high-school students from League of Innovative Schools member districts, representin ..read more