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.
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Well, THE PUSH only came up with 4 excellent physical / health education blogs yesterday. If you know of any more, we could use them. Here’s how we’re doing in other areas: […]
Here are my notes from Dr. Yong Zhao’s presentation, Catching Up or Leading the Way: American Education in the Age of Globalization, at the 2009 School Administrators of Iowa (SAI) conference… […]
THE PUSH has a big challenge today. Are we up to the task? Yesterday we identified 7 excellent music education blogs. Here’s how we’re doing in other areas: 13 art education […]
On page 52 of Free: The Future of a Radical Price, Chris Anderson notes: Products that can become commoditized and cheap tend to do so, and companies seeking profits move […]
THE PUSH continues to get more DIFFICULT as we head away from the “core” areas. Yesterday was a good day. We identified 12 excellent art education blogs. Here’s how we’re doing in […]
The New York Timesreports today on a study of MySpace users from the United Kingdom. Here is a quote from the article: The MySpace study asked social networking users between […]
THE PUSH is getting HARDER as we move away from the “core” areas. Yesterday we only identified 2 (yes, 2) excellent language education blogs. We’re doing much better in other areas: 9 Social Studies […]
THE PUSH continues… So far we’re up to: 6 Social Studies education blogs (really? that’s all?), 9 English / language arts education blogs, 17 science education blogs, and 24 math education […]
Tom Whitby had an interesting idea: create a Twitter account for a school administrator that was pre-loaded with 50 people to follow. n n Beth Still liked the idea and blogged about it. […]
THE PUSH had another great day yesterday. We’re now up to: 8 English / language arts education blogs, 13 science education blogs, and 24 math education blogs. Thanks, everyone! Today […]
The best-selling netbooks typically fall within the $300 to $400 range and their capabilities are increasing rapidly as manufacturers figure out how to include more features. For example, we are […]
Thirteen science education blogs and twenty-four math education blogs later, THE PUSH is off to a good start! Today we work on ENGLISH / LANGUAGE ARTS EDUCATION. What are some excellent English / […]
Yesterday I announced THE PUSH… [and we generated an amazing list in just 24 hours] Today we work on SCIENCE EDUCATION. What are some excellent science education blogs that P-12 science educators should […]
THE PUSH begins today! What is THE PUSH? Glad you asked! Every single day for at least the next two weeks, we work together to identify excellent subject-specific blogs that are […]
[cross-posted at LeaderTalk] As leaders, we often know what is the right thing to do. Just to pick a few examples… We know that ongoing, formative progress monitoring is more appropriate […]
The Des Moines Register reported today that the St. Ansgar (IA) Schools have given up on their proposal to purchase a device that would jam mobile phone signals after confirming […]
Both of my NECC 2009 presentations are now available! As I noted earlier, my first presentation, Effective Leadership in an Era of Disruptive Innovation, is available at ISTEVision. My second […]
Every year the School Administrators of Iowa asks its members what priority it should give to various legislative and/or lobbying issues. Here are my responses to some of the items […]
Since my preview of Conspiracy Code: U.S. History at NECC, I’ve been thinking again about educational games… n Here are a bunch of screen shots of different online games for learning. I […]
I haven’t had a contest all summer. I have some books to give away, so here’s an easy one… Questions What’s your funniest K-12 ed tech story, vignette, or anecdote? [please anonymize […]
I was one of the faculty members interviewed by the Associated Press for an article on technology integration in higher education. I think the article came out pretty well. It’s […]
For those of you who are curious, here are the standings in our two edublogger fantasy baseball leagues at the All-Star break:
Well, it’s not every day that one gets within six feet of two presidents. Last Thursday, just as my colleague at ISU, Dr. John Nash, and I were walking out of […]
Here are my notes from Day 2 of the World Technology Summit. I’ve been hangin’ with Dr. John Nash, my colleague at ISU. Today we learned about India’s Barefoot College […]
Here are my notes from Day 1 of the World Technology Summit & Awards in New York City. My colleague at Iowa State, Dr. John Nash, and I have been […]
Many of you have been participating in and/or following the conversations for this year’s CASTLE Summer Book Club. I am pleased to announce that my interview today with Dr. Dan […]
For those of you who have asked, my Monday, June 29, afternoon presentation at NECC, Effective leadership in an era of disruptive innovation, is now available at ISTEVision: FYI, you also […]
For Leadership Day 2009, here are some key questions that I’d ask about the technology leadership function in any school district: n n Who is primary responsible for technology leadership in […]
Just a reminder that tomorrow is Leadership Day 2009 here at Dangerously Irrelevant! n You can see the posts from previous years at n n Leadership Day 2007 Summary n […]