Bernie Trilling and Paul Hood analyze education reform for the knowledge age in 3 key areas: 1) Modern learning theory emphasizes authentic, collaborative learning through rich environments and social interaction. 2) Top-down and bottom-up reform strategies both have limitations, so a mixed systemic approach coordinating initiatives may be best. 3) A "turnaround" strategy introduces competition through alternative learning centers that are hybrid public-private campuses offering diverse, technology-enabled options assessed through online certifications.

1. Learning, Technology, and
Education Reform in the
Knowledge Age
according to Bernie Trilling and Paul Hood

2. Background of the Authors
Bernie Trilling Paul Hood
• Global Director for the Oracle • Social Psychologist
Education Foundation • Director of Institutional
• Co-Chair of the Partnership for Planning for WestEd'
21st Century Skills
• Director for the Technology In
Education
A selection of the author's employers:
http://www.p21.org/about-us/strategic-council-members
http://www.wested.org/cs/we/print/docs/areas.htm

3. „Turning Point of the Knowledge Age“
According to Trilling&Hood, the Knowledge Age started in 1991, when
US spending for information technology was higher than for
industrial capital goods
• „with increased automation and the export of manufacturing to
industrial-strength countries like China, industrial work in
Knowledge Age countries like the US will continue to fade to
low levels“
• What is a Knowledge Age Country in a globalizing world?
• What is happening here:
http://www.manufacturingnews.com/news/ecindustrialpolicy1012121.html
??

4. The new aims of education

5. Modern Learning Theory
„a broad consensus has formed around key principles (..)
Context: more authentic learning tasks (..), rich learning envoronments
Construction: external supports for internal model making
Caring: self-reliant and self-motivated workers
Competence: need to benefit from multiple talents
Community: social and cultural realms: group interaction, peer relations

6. „Knowledge Age survival skills“

7. Reform Strategies
Top-Down
- focused mainly on standard tests and incentives for change
- „you can only change what you measure“ – KA skills hard to measure
Bottum-Up
- Educational innovations in projects, singular schools and communities
- problem to scale these up, ensure sustainability
Systemic-mixed Mode
- Top-down initiated leadership and support for the development and
co-ordination of bottom-up initiatives

8. A new approach:
Turn-around reform strategy
* Competition in education and training
„benefits of a well-managed, balanced level of competition may far
outweigh the risks“; „Multi-billion $ school education market locked
up in governmental and non-profit programmes“
* Decreased Costs from the use of educational technology
* Performance-based educational practices and measures
„total quality management, assessments of employee“
„devising and mentoring of quality measures for educational service
providers“

9. Turn around: Alternative learning Centres
- Hybrid Campus: open 7 days a week, housing public and private
schools, non- and for -profit bisinesses
- Executive management team for educational balance and quality
- Teacher as „primary learning adviser“
- mixed age teams working on wide variety of projects
- wide variety of „just-in-time“ learning choices
- online standards-based assessments and certifications of knowledge
Having this in mind, take a look at the following:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Mug66WnoSk
http://www.eschoolnews.com/2009/06/01/school-of-the-future-lessons-in-failure/

10. Questions?!
What are the advantages and disadvantages of the
decribed „turn-around strategy“ in education reform?
What are the opportunities and challenges regarding the
„alternative learning centers“ introduced?
What is a Knowledge Age Country in a globalizing world?
What is happening here:
http://www.manufacturingnews.com/news/ecindustrialpolicy1012121.html
??

11. References
Trilling, B., & Hood, P. (1999). Learning Technology and Education Reform in the
Knowledge Age or "We're Wired, Webbed and Windowed, Now What?" Educational
Technology, 39, 3, 5-18. accessed at
http://www.wested.org/online_pubs/learning_technology.pdf on 08 October 2007
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Mug66WnoSk
http://www.p21.org/about-us/strategic-council-members
http://www.wested.org/cs/we/print/docs/areas.htm
http://www.eschoolnews.com/2009/06/01/school-of-the-future-lessons-in-failure/