Scott McLeod
Associate Professor of Educational Administration, Iowa State University
Scott McLeod, J.D., Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Kentucky. He also is the Founding Director of the UCEA Center for the Advanced Study of Technology Leadership in Education (CASTLE), the nation’s only academic center dedicated to the technology needs of school administrators, and was a co-creator of the wildly popular video series, Did You Know? (Shift Happens). He has received numerous national awards for his technology leadership work, including recognitions from the cable industry, Phi Delta Kappa, and the National School Boards Association. In Spring 2011 he was a Visiting Canterbury Fellow at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. Dr. McLeod blogs regularly about technology leadership issues at Dangerously Irrelevant and Mind Dump, and occasionally at The Huffington Post. He can be reached at scottmcleod.net.
Tomorrow is Wolfram|Alpha’s Homework Day. The company is inviting students to submit their homework problems to see if/how Wolfram Alpha can solve them. Should be interesting… Will you or your […]
Interesting conversations are occurring, well-known edubloggers are advocating for their topic suggestions (see, e.g., Vicki Davis and Brian Crosby), and, perhaps most importantly for ISTE, there seems to be a fair […]
As budget cuts loom again in many states, employee termination, seniority, and ‘bumping rights’ are in the news. The essential issue is whether organizational leaders should be able to retain the employees […]
ISTE is asking us to help select one of its next conference keynotes. I am asking you to please vote for my suggestion: n n As of this moment, the top three […]
Russ Goerendposted a couple of short video snippets from our small Tweetup at ITEC 2009 (for some reason a host of Flip cameras suddenly emerged…). In addition to a number […]
David Warlick is a wonderful speaker and an even more wonderful person. I was very fortunate to spend some time with him last night and this morning. I have very […]
Group notes from David Warlick’s keynote at ITEC 2009. <a href=”http://www.coveritlive.com/mobile.php?option=com_mobile&task=viewaltcast&altcast_code=b94b3ef7cd” >ITEC David Warlick Keynote</a> Keywords: redefine literacy Warlick
Group notes from Daniel Pink’s keynote speech at ITEC 2009. ITEC Daniel Pink Keynote
Terry Moe and John Chubb say… n n [I]n American education, policy making is not guided by what is best for children or the larger public. It is a political […]
Terry Moe and John Chubb say… n n There is every reason to believe that technology will only become more effective with time. The same cannot be said of the […]
The Ron Clark Academy looks like a wonderful school. But is it realistic to expect a significant number of our teachers to teach like this?
Terry Moe and John Chubb say… n A. “The average technology score [from Education Week’s Technology Counts 2008] drops as union membership grows. . . . technology seems to be […]
Terry Moe and John Chubb say… n n The fact that [technology] offers enormous benefits is not enough to guarantee that it will be embraced by the public schools and […]
Terry Moe and John Chubb say… n n The American education system faces much more than a performance problem. It also faces a political problem that, in the grander scheme […]
Terry Moe and John Chubb say… n n Even today, with educational technology in its earliest stages: n n Curricula can be customized to meet the learning styles and life […]
Terry Moe and John Chubb say… n n The revolution in information technology is historic in its force and scope: reshaping the fundamentals of how human beings from every corner […]
Dr. Tony Wagner of Harvard University, who authored The Global Achievement Gap, is speaking to over 600 Iowa administrators and teachers today in Des Moines. Nearly 30 students are liveblogging their reactions […]
Dr. Tony Wagner of Harvard University, who authored The Global Achievement Gap, is speaking to over 600 Iowa administrators and teachers today in Des Moines. Nearly 30 students are liveblogging their reactions […]
Dr. Tony Wagner of Harvard University, who authored The Global Achievement Gap, is speaking to over 600 Iowa administrators and teachers today in Des Moines. Nearly 30 students are liveblogging […]
Three years, 20+ million online views, and many, many face-to-face showings later, the Did You Know? (Shift Happens) video still is going strong. Just this week it was mentioned in […]
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Many schools filter YouTube, Twitter, blogs, wikis, podcasts, social networking, and other content-rich online services for both students and employees. Why on earth would you filter the adults who work […]
Much ado about nothing I just read the text of President Obama’s hotly-contested speech tomorrow. I encourage you to do the same. Could it be any more innocuous? Whatever happened to waiting […]
A while back I shared one of my two favorite passages from Pamela Livingston’s excellent book, 1-to-1 Learning: Laptop Programs That Work. Here’s the other one: n n [W]e need to […]
For those of you who are interested, here are the final regular season standings for BlogBall09, our edublogger fantasy baseball leagues. As league commissioners, apparently both Jon Becker and I got to […]
The New South Wales province in Australia is on a quest to outfit every Year 9 to 12 student with a customized Lenovo netbook by 2012. It is expected that […]
If you haven’t seen it yet, here’s a video created by Shawn Gormley and Kevin Honeycutt that highlights some of the digital disconnects that exist between students and teachers: Thanks, […]
Today is the LAST day of THE PUSH! Today we focus on EDUCATION POLICY. We’re looking for excellent education policy blogs (liberal, conservative, or neither) that P-12 educators should be reading. […]
The American School of Bombay (ASB) in Mumbai, India is hosting a 1:1 laptop computing conference in February 2010. While the conference is aimed at other international schools, it should be […]
Just 1 day left for THE PUSH! Today we focus on SUPERINTENDENTS / SCHOOL DISTRICTS. We’re looking for excellent superintendent, central office, or district-wide blogs (e.g., where multiple individuals contribute). What […]