University of Illinois Masters of Education. Posted in EPS 535 Assessment for Learning. IQ testing becomes less and less relevant in this technological age of skills rather than knowledge. Even well designed tests have biases. Whilst there may be legitimate science behind the design of the tests, what is the point of giving someone a number? More often than not a huge amount of memorised information is mistaken for a high IQ anyway.

This week I logged in for my last online masters session. Learners have the skills and understandings necessary to participate positively and productively in a our perpetually evolving global knowledge society. Posted September 13, 2010. I am really excited about it.

Mt Ainslie with Ben and Glenn. First Australian beer at an Irish pub. We have the same birthday. Working on our wiki posts. Our adminstrative leader encouraged us to move away from the mainly summative testing we had been doing and toward improving our use of formative testing .

Hello EPS 532, It feels great to be back in the land of learners. I am so excited to have this course with you all and it appears you are all still a very tight knit team. I look forward to talking with you all and I promise to catch up on reading your blogs. Thanks for allowing me to return. Mytmax on Hello EPS 532.

Overall this process has been very exciting. Technology is providing so many more opportunities for students to learn in new and interesting ways. LbD provides the perfect scaffold to enhance creativity and promote engaging learning.

Literacy in the New Media Age. Semiotics according to Sanders Peirce was demonstrated at the kitchen table this evening while I was preparing dinner. My three boys were looking a several pictures in a book and quizzing each other on what they were. I was not paying much attention until they began arguing over an image much like the following sign.