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.
It’s the first day of school here in Ames, Iowa. The past two years at this time, I’ve posted the following checklist, wondering if schools have made any improvement since […]
We have a bunch of crazy dice at our house, including fractions dice, decimal dice, money dice, alien dice, dice with colored dots on them, and dice within dice. We […]
Most schools currently expect students to somehow (maybe magically?) be responsible, successful digital citizens upon graduation from high school – able to navigate all of the intricacies of a digital, […]
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Inspired by Cory Plough’s post about his meetup and presentation with Kelly Dumont, I’m going to try and do a better job of letting people know when I might be […]
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Okay, I’ve got one more contest in me this summer… As usual, the winner gets everlasting fame and a CASTLE mug. I’ll also throw in three great books: It’s Being […]
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Sometimes a story is just so egregiously stupid that you not only have to post about it but encourage others to spread the word too. This might be one of […]
[cross-posted at the TechLearning blog ] I’m in the midst of reading Clark Aldrich’s Simulations and the Future of Learning . As Aldrich walks me through the process of developing […]
The Teacher Salary Project is intended to call attention to the important and difficult work that teachers do. I agree that teachers “deserve more.” Is it wrong of me to […]
Samuel Smiles, a Scottish author, said: We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and […]
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Distributed (or shared) leadership is all the rage right now in leadership circles. And rightfully so. School leaders should tap into the wealth of expertise and experience that their staffs […]
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Head on over to Leading From the Heart and leave Tracy Rosen a comment on her thought-provoking post about revisiting digital literacy. Here’s the comment I just left her: n […]
Over at the On Our Minds @ Scholastic blog, Tyler Reed is pondering the recent announcement by the Lamar (MS) County School District that it will prohibit teachers from communicating […]
As you can see below, there were a number of great Leadership Day 2008 posts. If I missed someone, my apologies in advance. Please add your link in the comments […]
Al Gore said: We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift. He was talking about global climate […]
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I couldn’t agree with you more, Arthus. You’ve just highlighted an enormous failing of our entire system of schooling. I know that there’s been a great deal of consternation and […]
Chris Lehmann’s post last week regarding Clay Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody and educational change was particularly thought-provoking for me. If you haven’t yet read Chris’ post or the book, move […]
It’s time to announce the ‘winner’ of the Dismaying Class Assignments Contest. With due recognition to Heather Voran‘s music notation note cards, Rick Tanski‘s (and David Keane’s) tissues for class […]
Live blogging Dr. Kent Peterson, U. Wisconsin-Madison, talking about school culture and climate at the West Virginia Institute for 21st Century Leadership…
Joel Adkins blogged … For the past few months, I have played around the edge of the new philosophers. I have been reading their blogs, listening to the podcasts, reading […]