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.
Here’s a great quote from Jim Collins’ new book, How the Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In: Whether you prevail or fail, endure or die, depends more […]
Just 2 days left for THE PUSH! I had a moment of panic yesterday because the Moving Forward wiki disappeared completely from the Web. Fortunately Wikispaces resolved the problem quickly and […]
Just 3 days left for THE PUSH! I don’t know how many of these we’ll get, but today we focus on SECONDARY TEACHERS. Are there any excellent secondary teacher blogs where 7-12 educators are […]
I don’t know how Chris Lehmann finagled an invite to speak to the FCC, but I sure am glad he did (and that he filmed it!). Click on the picture […]
Just 4 days left of THE PUSH! Today we focus on SECONDARY CLASSROOMS. What are some excellent secondary classroom blogs that 7-12 educators should be reading? We’re looking for excellent examples of blogs where […]
I have two favorite quotes from Pamela Livingston’s excellent book, 1-to-1 Learning: Laptop Programs That Work. Here’s the first one: If it takes 40 minutes for an environmental science class […]
Just a few days left for THE PUSH! Today we focus on ELEMENTARY TEACHERS. What are some excellent elementary teacher blogs that P-6 educators should be reading? We’re looking for excellent examples of blogs where […]
A reading teacher contacted me: As the school’s remedial reading teacher I was asked to research a reading program for an extraordinarily bright 5th grader. Do you have any suggestions? […]
Today THE PUSH focuses on ELEMENTARY CLASSROOMS. What are some excellent elementary classroom blogs that P-6 educators should be reading? We’re looking for excellent examples of blogs where elementary students share their work. […]
dear parent teacher administrator board member don’t teach your kids to read for the Web to scan RSS aggregate synthesize don’t teach your kids to write online pen and paper […]
Yesterday was a good day for THE PUSH. We now have a list of 13 excellent P-12 business / computer science education blogs! As we get closer to the end (only […]
From the author of Socialnomics, here’s what is perhaps the latest modification of the Did You Know? video. FYI, Did You Know? Version 4 is on target for an October […]
The University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA) has started a new podcast channel and will be interviewing top educational leadership scholars from around the world about school administrator research and/or […]
I took a couple of days off from THE PUSH – guess I was tired! We only identified 1 excellent P-12 athletics / extracurricular activities blog. As we head into the home stretch […]
Sometimes THE PUSH has a tough day. Yesterday we only identified 2 excellent school counseling / college and career counseling / school psychology education blogs. We’re doing okay in most other areas […]
Yesterday was a good day for THE PUSH! We identified 7 excellent gifted education blogs. We’re doing okay in most other areas but could use some help with these: agricultural education (only […]
Yesterday was another great day for THE PUSH! We identified 11 excellent English as a second language (ESL) education blogs. We’re doing okay in most other areas but could use some help […]
Here are two quotes from Education and Learning to Think, an interesting little research-based book published by the National Research Council way back in 1987! Higher order thinking is nonalgorithmic. […]
Yesterday was a better day for THE PUSH. We identified 8 excellent preschool / early childhood education blogs. We’re doing okay in most other areas but could use some help with these: […]
This past Saturday was Dangerously Irrelevant’s third birthday. Wow. So much for an experiment that I thought I’d try for a few months! Today this blog tipped over the 6,000 […]
THE PUSH is struggling a bit right now. The past few categories have been tough. Yesterday we only identified 3 excellent agricultural education blogs. We’re doing okay in most other areas […]
Seth Godin is one of my favorite thinkers. I’ve learned a ton from him. Here are a couple of quotes from his post today on education. School was the big […]
Here’s a quote I ran across today from Lawrence Lessig (whom I heard speak for a few minutes in July!): n n [W]hile the Internet has indeed produced something fantastic […]
THE PUSH is a hit: we’re getting closer and closer to 200 excellent subject-specific P-12 blogs! However, we’re in a really tough stretch right now. Yesterday we only identified 2 excellent […]
The personal computer has been around for about 30 years. For most of us, the Internet has been around for about 10 years. And yet we still have a sizable […]
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As a blogger, it’s sometimes hard to anticipate how folks will react to your content. If you’re striving to reach and dialogue with others, hopefully your blogging is of value […]
Yesterday THE PUSH identified 20 excellent special education blogs. Nice work, everyone! Here’s how we’re doing in other areas: 2 vocational / applied / industrial technology education blogs (we need more of these!), 5 […]
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Yesterday was a tough day for THE PUSH. We only came up with 2 excellent vocational / applied / industrial technology education blogs yesterday. If you know of any more, we […]