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Silver Lining for Learning

Silver Lining for Learning

De: Punya Mishra | Chris Dede | Curt Bonk | Yong Zhao
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Silver Lining for Learning (https://silverliningforlearning.org) is an ongoing conversation on the future of learning with educators and education leaders from across the globe. Hosted by Chris Dede, Curt Bonk, Punya Mishra & Yong Zhao, these conversations began under the “dark cloud” of the COVID19 crisis and continue today. We see these conversations as space to discuss the creation of equitable, humanistic and sustainable learning ecosystems that meet the needs of all learners. These conversations are hosted live on YouTube every Saturday (typically 5:30 PM Eastern US time).2020-2022 Silver Lining for Learning
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  • Empowering India's Youth to Shape Tomorrow

    Empowering India's Youth to Shape Tomorrow
    Nov 8 2025
    What happens when young people refuse to be passive consumers of the future being built around them? The Youth Futures Studio (YFS) at Quest Alliance is flipping the script on how we think about youth, technology, and the future by asking a crucial question: How are megatrends like climate change and AI shaping young people's lives—and what futures do they want to inhabit?Rather than accepting predetermined futures, YFS empowers young people to imagine and articulate alternatives. The studio operates on a simple but radical premise: futures exist only in our imagination, making them a powerful tool for understanding how megatrends will affect us. And crucially, no trend is destiny—at any moment, multiple possible futures exist, waiting to be shaped by the choices we make today.More about the YFS program and our guests below the videohttps://youtu.be/SweZpYX_iisYFS focuses on three pillars:Understanding how young people are experiencing megatrendsBuilding capacity of young people to imagine alternate futures through futures thinking pedagogyBring youth voices to the decision making tableThe studio began with climate change, developing an emancipatory climate futures literacy pedagogy that helped young people move from individual understanding of climate issues to systemic thinking—and from there, to imagining their preferred climate futures. Now, YFS has turned its attention to another force reshaping young lives: artificial intelligence and emerging technologies. The team recognized something urgent: AI is already laying the foundations of the world young people will inhabit, yet these young people feel they have no agency in influencing that change. They feel trapped into passively accepting futures being decided for them.YFS engaged with over 200 young people in government secondary schools and vocational training institutes to understand their digital lives. The results were striking: 2 out of 3 young people couldn't clearly define what Artificial Intelligence was—yet AI is already reshaping their education, employment prospects, and daily lives. Without reliable information or critical engagement tools, young people were making meaning of these technologies entirely on their own terms, filling the knowledge gap with whatever they could piece together.The Response: Critical AI Futures PedagogyThis gap led YFS to create a Critical AI Futures pedagogical framework that goes beyond simply teaching young people what AI is—it empowers them to engage critically and imagine differently. The framework enables young people to understand AI and situate it within their social context rather than seeing it as an abstract or inevitable force, articulate their anxieties about probable AI futures not to dwell in fear but to transform those anxieties into critical questions, challenge and reject dominant AI narratives that position them as passive users, imagine and articulate alternate community-centered AI futures, and ultimately claim agency to create their preferred futures rather than accepting what's handed to them.This engagement culminated in something unprecedented: India's first Youth AI Charter: A Critical AI futures pedagogical framework that helps young people to:Understand AI, engage with it critically and situate it in their social contextEnables them to articulate their anxieties about probable AI futuresUse anxiety as a site of transformation to challenge and question and reject the dominant AI narrativesEmpowers them to imagine and articulate alternate AI futures which are community-centeredEmpowers them with agency to imagine and create their preferred AI futuresIn this document, young people refuse their assigned role as passive consumers of AI and instead articulate how AI should serve their communities and shape their lives. They propose a reversal of priorities—prioritizing care over efficiency, focusing on human and environmental wellbeing, centering labor dignity. Their vision is building a Viksit Bharat (Developed India) with a genuinely human, environment, and labor-centric approach to AI—not despite artificial intelligence, but by reshaping how it's developed and deployed.The Youth Futures Studio's work reminds us that the future isn't written yet. Young people aren't just subjects of change—they're architects of possibility. By giving them the tools to think critically, imagine boldly, and articulate clearly, we're not just preparing them for the future but ensuring they have a hand in creating it.Our guestsBhawna Parmar: Bhawna is a researcher-designer working at the intersection of youth, digital cultures and participatory futures. She has set up and currently leads the Youth Futures Studio at Quest Alliance, India.Tanvi Negi: Tanvi is the Director of Monitoring, Evaluation and Research at Quest Alliance. Join the conversation at silverliningforlearning.org
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  • Pedagogical Evolution: Empowering 21st Century Learners with Paul Kim

    Pedagogical Evolution: Empowering 21st Century Learners with Paul Kim
    Nov 8 2025

    We stand at a pivotal moment—B.G. (Before GenAI) and A.G. (After GenAI)—when education must transform to prepare learners for an AI-driven world. This keynote explores how AI Coaching, SMILE (Stanford Mobile Inquiry-based Learning Environment), and AI SANA, a national program training 600,000 students to use AI for job creation, are redefining learning.

    Bringing together Kazakhstan’s AI & Entrepreneurship Initiative, Korea’s AI Coach program, and a global K-12 AI Competency Curriculum, the talk introduces meta-AI competency—the ability to creatively harness AI to solve complex problems. Grounded in the 6Cs—collaboration, communication, critical thinking, creativity, compassion, and commitment—it shows how education in the A.G. era must engage students in meaningful, timely learning experiences that build purpose, adaptability, and human-centered innovation.

    Readings and Resources:

    • https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/07356331251314222
    • https://primeminister.kz/en/news/ai-sana-business-acceleration-programme-for-startups-to-be-launched-in-kazakhstan-29792
    Episode Guest

    Paul Kim

    Dr. Paul Kim is the Founder and President of Seeds of Empowerment, a global social innovation incubator he established in collaboration with Stanford University graduate students in 2004. He served as the Chair of the International Expert Committee on Education Technology at the World Bank and advises Silicon Valley venture capital firms including Lumos Capital and Roble Ventures.

    As the former Associate Dean and Chief Technology Officer of Stanford University's Graduate School of Education, Dr. Kim dedicated 24 years to advancing learning technology for marginalized communities worldwide. He also launched the Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) Program and developed a learning innovation design challenge, serving as an edtech startup incubator for Stanford students.

    Dr. Kim now focuses on global learning technology and entrepreneurship initiatives in the Eurasian region, including designing advanced learning labs in Beijing centered on smart farming, VR/AI, biotech, and aerospace mobility. He also spearheads an entrepreneurship & AI education program with Kazakhstan's Ministry of Science and Higher Education. In addition, he launched an AI-powered student learning journey planner for the Metro School District of Incheon, Korea.

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    1 h y 1 m
  • Celebrating 250 Episodes: Hosts Reflect

    Celebrating 250 Episodes: Hosts Reflect
    Oct 18 2025

    Celebrating 250 Episodes: Hosts Reflect with Chris Dede, Curt Bonk. Lydia Cao, Yong Zhao, & Punya Mishra

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    57 m
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