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6
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500+
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30+
Countries
Silver Lining for Learning

Born from crisis, building hope — weekly conversations transforming education for a more humanistic and sustainable future.

Silver Lining for Learning 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 more equitable, humanistic, and sustainable learning ecosystems.

AECT Distinguished Development Award (2022) · Outstanding Digital Learning Artifact (2022) · Annual Achievement Award (2023) · Top-100 education podcast

Your hosts

Chris Dede
Chris Dede
Harvard GSE
Curtis Bonk
Curtis Bonk
Indiana University
Lydia Cao
Lydia Cao
OISE, University of Toronto
Punya Mishra
Punya Mishra
Arizona State University
Yong Zhao
Yong Zhao
University of Kansas
Insights from 6 years

Six years of conversations, turned into data.

We coded 264 transcripts, 2.6 million words. Twelve themes emerged. Seven interactive visualizations let you explore how the conversation has shifted — what rose, what fell, where ideas intersect, and which episodes broke the mold.

Explore the insights →
Thematic diversity of episodes over six years, showing two phase shifts that divide the show into three eras
From the Diversity view — episodes mapped against thematic breadth