There's a silver lining for learning that starts today.
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In
dealing with the coronavirus crisis, Chris Dede (Timothy
E. Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies at Harvard), Yong Zhao (Foundation Distinguished Professor at U of
Kansas), Punya Mishra (Professor and Associate Dean
of Scholarship and Innovation at ASU), Scott McLeod (Associate Professor of Educational
Leadership at U of Colorado), and I (along with Special
guest: Dr. Shuangye Chen, Professor, executive editor, ECNU Review of Education)
in China will have a new Webcast show called “Silver
Lining for Learning: Conversations about the Future of Education”
on Saturdays at 5:30 pm EST starting tomorrow March 21.
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Our
first guest will be TED Talk awardee Sugata Mitra on March 28. Yong Zhao has blogged
on it. The info is also below. Each week, the show will be streamed from Zoom
to YouTube. Note: At 5:15 pm EST each week the link will appear to watch the
stream at: http://silverliningforlearning.org/.
The shows will be recorded and made available. I hope to see ya.
Silver
Lining for Learning:
Conversations about the Future of Education
5:30-6:30pm
EDT (US) Saturdays
Watch
at:
Twitter:
#silverliningforlearning
Don’t
waste a crisis — M.F. Weiner
The “dark cloud” of the Coronavirus
crisis continues to cause havoc worldwide and seems a generation-defining
event. In education, this crisis has forced schools and universities to close,
pushing often unprepared institutions to move teaching and learning online. The
already stressed educational ecosystem now faces unprecedented difficulties
that will fall disproportionately on students of low socioeconomic status and
marginalized groups. This situation continues to worsen and is expected to
persist for months or even years before normalcy occurs.
This disruption, however, provides us
with an opportunity to reimagine teaching and learning so as to create an
equitable and humanistic learning ecosystem for all. Barriers and structures
that have resisted much needed change are now in disarray, offering the chance
for transformative improvements.
We seek to begin this reimagining
through a series of interactive conversations of emerging trends, disruptive
policies, programs, and initiatives, and often controversial, murky, and
unspoken topics.
Silver Lining for Learning is a weekly live conversation among a panel of visionary experts
about the future of education. The weekly panel includes at least three
co-hosts and one or two invited guests for each episode.
Hosts:
Curtis Bonk,
Professor of Instructional Systems Technology, Indiana University
Chris Dede, Timothy E. Wirth Professor in
Learning Technologies at the Harvard Graduate School of Education
Scott
McLeod, Associate Professor of Educational Leadership, University of
Colorado Denver
Punya Mishra,
Professor and Associate Dean of Scholarship and Innovation, MLF Teachers
College, Arizona State
Yong Zhao,
Foundation Distinguished Professor, School of Education, University of Kansas
and Professor in Educational Leadership Melbourne Graduate School of Education
Silver Lining for Learning is broadcast live on
YouTube Live from 5:30 to 6:30pm US EDT on Saturdays and archived at silverliningforlearning.org.
The conversations are carried out via Zoom. Summaries of SLL discussions are also
published in ECNU Review of
Education, an open-access peer reviewed education.
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