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.

On September 9, 2010 by edcuthbertson. Just as I have previously blogged about the use of common ground as a forum where people can share ideas, pedagogical strategies and designed learning I have also been asked to reflect how the scaffold of Learning by Design helps in this process. On May 25, 2010 by edcuthbertson. I kind of liked it.

Do any of you have positions where you feel as if you are in a rat race? I have to confess, I do. I teach in a small rural school where there are only 200 students, prek to 8th grade. My district values music, so here I am, the all purpose music teacher. 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th grade music. Is it worth it? Give it a listen. The link below will open the.