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.
[This is Post 5 for my guest blogging stint at The Des Moines Register.] Archimedes said “Give me a lever long enough and I can move the world.” This week […]
[This is post 4 for my guest blogging stint at The Des Moines Register.] Archimedes said “Give me a lever long enough and I can move the world.” This week […]
I was really excited to read David Pogue’s article today on Amazon’s new Kindle for iPhone application that allows you to download e-books from Amazon onto your iPhone or iPod […]
Apparently it’s video day! Here’s another one (hat tip to Doug Johnson and Angela Maiers).
Here’s a new video, courtesy of Peggy Sheehy, Marianne Malmstrom, and the Net Generation Education Project (hat tip to Angela Maiers!).
[This is Post 3 for my guest blogging stint at The Des Moines Register.] Archimedes said “Give me a lever long enough and I can move the world.” This week […]
I received this message recently from a school administrator: Our district is looking at building a new high school or middle school in the near future. I would appreciate your […]
[This is Post 2 for my guest blogging stint at The Des Moines Register.] Archimedes said “Give me a lever long enough and I can move the world.” This week […]
[This is Post 1 for my guest blogging stint at The Des Moines Register.] Archimedes said “Give me a lever long enough and I can move the world.” This week […]
I’m overdue on recognizing the next blog that I feel deserves a bigger audience (DABA). This week I’d like to award the crimson megaphone to Evan Abbey, the Director of Online […]
Thursday was the inaugural episode of 4 Guys Talking, a new podcast series from CASTLE. The podcast consists of me, Jon Becker, David Quinn, and Jayson Richardson talking about a variety […]
For your viewing pleasure this weekend, here’s my session with the Heartland AEA 11 (Iowa) superintendents. The video’s just over an hour long: about 25 minutes of my presentation followed by discussion (and […]
Sarah Hanawald kindly Tweeted that she was live blogging Mary Cullinane’s speech. I checked it out and am glad I did! Here are a few excerpts for you… Examples of […]
One of the students in my data-driven decision-making class (for discussion purposes, let’s call her ‘Jen’) posted this in our online discussion area: Most grading at the high school level […]
The annual ASCD conference is in Orlando, Florida this year. ASCD is looking for some education bloggers who might be interested in live blogging the event. If you’re already attending […]
I’ve had a lot of fun these past ten days posting quotes from Robert Fried’s The Game of School. I think Fried does a fabulous job of highlighting how schools as […]
Robert Fried says… [I]f what we seek is a learning partnership with students, we cannot remain aloof from them or be seen as demanding their respect as a matter of […]
Robert Fried says… n n When student resistance to classroom learning is seen as typical and inevitable, and teachers console each other to “just hang on till June,” that . […]
Robert Fried says… n n We [parents] become so confused, so conflicted, so fearful that unless we keep our children’s minds “on task,” aiming for the honor roll, the advanced […]
Robert Fried says… Like Jacob, the biblical youth who sold his patrimony to his brother Esau for the equivalent of a Big Mac, our youth are cajoled into giving up their […]
Robert Fried says… There is quite likely no substitute for the experience of feeling empowered . . . if we hope for children to pursue learning enthusiastically within the structure of […]
Robert Fried says… n n We have opted not to create schools as places where children’s curiosity, sensory awareness, power, and communication can flourish, but rather to erect temples of […]
I tweeted: Here are the responses I got. Thanks, Twitter network!
Robert Fried says… The place we call school or college, which should be our society’s most vital promoter of learning, too often instead creates the field on which we learn to […]
Robert Fried says… There is a simple test we can perform to find out whether or not our children are truly learning. We can ask them, not the usual question, […]
Robert Fried says… [F]ar too much of the time our children spend in school is wasted. . . . [M]ost of what they experience during school hours passes over them like […]
My new faculty colleague, Dr. John Nash, is one of the hosts for PresentationCamp at Stanford University on February 28. I can’t attend but it should be good fun. The event […]
Are you (or your superintendent) going to be at the AASA conference next week? I’d love to get together Thursday night or Friday morning after my presentation. If so, drop […]
Robert Fried says… [A]mid all the accounts … of kids complaining to each other about how bored they are with many of their classes, why do we accept this so […]
That teaching can occur without learning That learning academic content is more important than caring about academic content