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.
Below is an excerpt by one of my Master’s students from our online discussions about data-driven schooling practices. I liked the emphasis on mindful precedent… The last chapter [of On […]
[I’m late for my self-initiated Leadership Day 2008. I went to visit my mom for a few days and forgot to take my laptop…] Most of our school leaders have […]
Hope you’ll join me tomorrow for Leadership Day 2008. Please use these tags to mark your post: leadershipday2008, schooltechleadership
Dean Shareski’s a sharp cookie, Carolyn Foote’s my savior, Miguel Guhlin’s a beach bum, and Doug Johnson’s a curmudgeon. David Jakes is under the bus, Cheryl Oakes likes cobbler, and […]
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Is anyone else feeling a bit overwhelmed by all of the information available here at NECC? It’s bad enough when we’re at home, but the focused concentration of all of […]
Here are the rest of my notes from ISTE’s annual digital equity summit at NECC… Discussions Wyatt Sledge, Forth Worth (TX) ISD, told me that the district just hired a […]
Here are my notes from ISTE’s annual digital equity summit at NECC. There is too much information to fit in one post so I’m breaking it up… n From Digital […]
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Here are my notes from Tuesday’s Professional Development Roundtable sponsored by the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA). This was an EXCELLENT conversation. n Effective professional development for educators n […]
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Here are my notes from Monday morning’s CTO Leadership Forum, sponsored by CoSN. The focus was on digital content and the role of the CTO (chief technology officer)… Ann McMullan, […]
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Jeff Utecht said: I’m worried these type of get out the tools and play sessions where we are all learning and teaching will be forced out of the Blogger’s Cafe. […]
I attended the SIGTC Forum, run by Ferdi Serim, on Sunday for about an hour. SIGTC is ISTE’s special interest group for technology coordinators. Two things from the session that […]
No matter what else may happen at this NECC conference, I can say with no hesitation whatsoever that my favorite moment will be – after all of our Did You […]
I haven’t been to NECC in years so I was really jazzed to be able to come this year to San Antonio. I came in with no agenda; my plan […]
[cross-posted at the TechLearning blog] nn Thisnis a picture of the Mobile Quarantine Facility built by NASA for astronauts returning fromnthe Moon. It’s basically a modified Airstreamntrailer. The idea was […]
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I ran across an interesting article, From Literacy to Digiracy, in The Economist (hat tip to Angela Maiers). Here’s the money quote: For anyone under the age of 20, the […]
Every time I make a list of the ‘top’ edublogs (as measured by Technorati ranking), it seems that I also end up writing a follow-up post. For example, I wrote […]
Whack! Whack! Whack! That’s my 4-year-old playing mini-golf. He discovered the joys of the game this spring in Florida. Whack! Whack! Whack! He doesn’t care what his score is. He […]
I got this e-mail last week from a media company (and, no, you probably don’t know who it is): [We have] an outstanding group blog. I’d like to get more […]
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There’s a fine line between being a public intellectual and just being a pundit. On many days I’m not sure on which side of the line I’m walking…
Dear DetentionSlip.org, I like your blog. I’m a regular subscriber, appreciate your work, and will use your site numerous times for my school law class. But would you please, please […]
Laura said : There are a lot of Ed Tech blogs and they don’t appeal to the average teacher who is not a tech junkie. Would you consider doing a […]
Below is my comment to Justin Bathon’s latest post . Mosey on over to his absolutely excellent school law blog and let him know what you think… Some questions for […]
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