Two shows running now, in two registers. Silver Lining for Learning is a webinar series that began in the pandemic and stayed because the conversations were too good to stop — six years and counting. AIR|GPT explores what AI means for education and beyond, an episode a month. Two more — Learning Futures and Value Laden — are wrapped, their archives still worth a wander. In all of them, the best moments are the ones nobody planned.
Silver Lining for Learning
270+ episodes across seven seasons
An award-winning weekly webinar/podcast on the future of learning, with educators, leaders, innovators, and learners from across the globe. Hosted by Chris Dede, Curt Bonk, Lydia Cao, Punya Mishra & Yong Zhao.
AIR|GPT
Monthly since November 2024
A monthly roundtable that gathers the creators of the field’s best-known ed-tech frameworks — SAMR, TPACK, Triple E, SETI, GenAI-U — to argue, agreeably, about what AI is doing to teaching and learning. Recorded in virtual airport lounges, which tells you something about the tone. Co-hosted by Ruben Puentedura, Liz Kolb, Punya Mishra, Helen Crompton & Caroline Fell Kurban; produced by the BAM Radio Network.
From the archive
Learning Futures
84 episodes · 2020–2025 · archive online. Produced at ASU as part of rethinking how scholarly work reaches people, Learning Futures ran for six seasons and 84 episodes — conversations with researchers, designers, and dreamers about where education is headed. Punya co-hosted through season five.
Value Laden
8 episodes · 2021 · archive online. A short-run series of longer, slower conversations with educational leaders about the values beneath their decisions — eight episodes, still worth the time.
Silver Lining for Learning — companion posts
Paths Crossing at the Digital Maidan: Keynotes, Forewords, and FuturesMay 24, 2026This post is long overdue. I was in Bangalore, back in December 2025, for the Quest 2 Learn Summit organized…
Six Years, 266 Episodes, and One Persistent QuestionMar 21, 2026On March 11, 2020, my friend Yong Zhao sent me an email. “I am interested in a thought experiment about…
Dissertation in a dayMar 16, 2026For the past six years, I have been a co-host on Silver Lining for Learning, a weekly webinar series that…
What a Guide to AI in Schools Reveals (and What It Can’t)Jan 19, 2026We had Justin Reich and Jesse Dukes as guests on the Silver Lining for Learning webinar/podcast to discuss their new…
Six Principles for Educational Technology Implementation: A Global PerspectiveJun 25, 2025A few months ago, the Mary Lou Fulton College for Teaching and Learning Innovation at Arizona State University hosted the…
Silver Lining for Learning at UNESCO: Celebrating 5 Years of InnovationMar 23, 2025I was honored to deliver the closing keynote at UNESCO’s International Day for Digital Learning 2025 this past week. The…
Perspectives on Global Learning: SLL at the GLOW Conference:Nov 21, 2024I joined my Silver Lining for Learning (SLL) co-hosts – Chris Dede, Curt Bonk, and Lydia Cao (with Yong Zhao…
The joy of learning: A reflectionJul 9, 2023What is this thing called learning? What does it mean to learn something? What makes us want to learn? Why…AIR|GPT — companion posts
Heart Monitors and Moratoriums: Two Conversations About AI in SchoolsOct 1, 2026I was part of two conversations recently that covered two extremes of what we are talking about when we discuss…
Banning what won’t go away: A new AIR|GPT episodeMay 3, 2026Tech bans, and calls for more of them, are in the air. The Los Angeles Unified School District just banned…
What Are Your AI Blind Spots? New AIR | GPT EpisodeMar 1, 2026What if I’m wrong? What are my blind spots? Those two questions frame our latest AIR | GPT episode, driven…
Agentic AI: New Tools, New Questions (New AIR | GPT Episode)Feb 2, 2026At our most recent AIR|GPT podcast meetup (our regular monthly “airport” gathering), Caroline Kurban jump-started the discussion with a startling…
Beyond AI Slop: Pride, Joy & Creativity in a World Created by AIDec 1, 2025Is generative AI killing creativity or helping us find new ways to be creative? In our latest AIR|GPT episode, we…
Pedagogical Debt: What We Owe Our Students in an AI World (New AIR | GPT Episode)Oct 4, 2025At our most recent AIR|GPT podcast meetup (our regular monthly “airport” gathering), Ruben Puentedura introduced us to the concept of…
Three Years of Gen AI: Back to School Edition of AIR|GPTSep 7, 2025It’s been 1000 days since ChatGPT launched. Not that anybody was clamoring for a hallucinating ChatBot but here we are.…
Grok This! When AI goes off the rails (Ep. #9 AIR | GPT)Aug 1, 2025Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be. I remember when “x” was just the “unknown” – the variable that we…