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.
Erin Reilly, Research Director for the New Media Literacies project at MIT, is looking for some New England high schools to pilot test its new Teachers’ Strategy Guide, Reading in […]
My latest article for the American Association of School Administrators is now online. Titled Blocking the Future, it’s only a page long but I’m really excited about it. Here’s an […]
[cross-posted at LeaderTalk] Here are some research findings for you… Smart people leave teaching? Of the teachers who had high college entrance exam scores, almost a fourth of them leave […]
[Since CoComment won’t play nice, here’s my response to Clay Burell’s post] When I started blogging in August 2006, I was feeling very down about the idea of writing. The […]
My latest roundup of links and tools… n I read blocked blogs n n I’m gettin’ me some of these super-cool buttons (made by Stephanie Sandifer; inspired by Bud Hunt). […]
Cable in the Classroom is sponsoring its annual Media Smart Research Award : Media literacy is a key 21st Century skill because it provides a framework and method to think […]
Lately there’s been a bunch of conversation on this blog about The Gaming Krib, a service designed to help parents and children ‘balance … playing time and learning time.’ Most […]
Just a couple of reminders… Submissions for the NECC button design contest that Wesley Fryer and I are sponsoring are due May 1. Submissions to be considered for CASTLE’s advisory […]
After 3 years, it’s time to set up an advisory board for CASTLE. Although I have a few people in mind that I’d like to invite, I also thought it […]
Credits:F Minus by Tony Carrillo, Dist. by UFS, Inc. [permission for use granted 4–24–2008]
We have a choice to make for ourselves and the organizations that we lead: cynicism or hope. Moving forward or remaining still. Not starry-eyed, quixotic optimism but a realistic, determined belief […]
Stephanie Sandifer recently blogged about the concept of ‘teachers as learners’: Rather than immediately engage in a technology purchasing frenzy, take some time to begin discussions on your campus about […]
[cross-posted at the TechLearning blog] nn Last June, during Change Week at Dangerously Irrelevant, I blogged about Rogers’ diffusion of innovation theory. In that post I mentioned that one of […]
Hey, principals! Superintendents! Teachers!* On a related note, here’s what I’ve been saying a lot lately… * Seth Godin, Free Prize Inside (p. 47)
As I said last May… In the blogosphere we pay a lot of attention to the folks who blog. We rarely, if ever, recognize those folks who comment. But of […]
The Iowa Technology Education Connection (ITEC) conference each year is fairly small. Despite its size, however, it tends to bring in some really big-name speakers for its keynote addresses. Last […]
If you’ve been reading Speed of Creativity lately, you probably noticed Wesley Fryer’s nifty phrase: I’m here for the learning revolution. n n Here for the learning revolution n I […]
This comment was left on my blog recently: n n I have a personal opinion that many teachers become administrators not to help more students, but because it is easier […]
Thanks to @rickscheibner, @abubnic, @rrmurry, @kolson29, @plugusin, @glassbeed, @pmcanulty, @tracyweeks, @NancyW, @RickTanski, @juliafallon, @swvalley, and @rwentechaney, I now have a number of new elementary classroom blogs to show my children’s […]
[cross-posted at LeaderTalk] In May I have the glorious opportunity to interview Mike Schmoker, guru of data-driven education and author of Results, The Results Fieldbook, Results Now, and The Crayola […]
Bud Hunt posted in Twitter about The Gaming Krib. Here’s the basic premise of the service this company’s trying to sell: n n It has the ability to shut off […]
My latest roundup of links and tools… n Some really cool posts about Twitter n n Twitter set theory & the wisdom of the group (a must-read) n 17 ways […]
One of the local school districts here in Iowa had an all-elementary-school chorus concert on Friday. At the beginning, the audience was told Please turn your cell phones off. Please […]
We have some technology funds to spend in my department. The computer lab that we provide for our on-campus graduate students is brand new and, other than some needed software, […]
Some words of advice for new education bloggers.
My posting rate here at Dangerously Irrelevant waned considerably over the past two months. I could make the excuse that I’ve been super busy but, of course, we all are […]
Here’s a nifty video by Charles Leadbeater, author of We Think: The Power of Mass Creativity. The book looks interesting. I don’t know how much it overlaps Clay Shirky’s phenomenally […]
Johnny Bunko: a cartoon Joe who hates his dead-end accounting job. A set of magic chopsticks. And Diana, a Greek-anime goddess of job satisfaction. Mix ’em together and you have […]
[cross-posted at the TechLearning blog] nn Chart 1: A discrepancy of beliefs n Here is a chart of some findings from the recently-released Speak Up 2007 surveys of nearly 368,000 […]
Education Canada has published a great article from Michael Wesch, author of several videos that should be seen by every school administrator. Here’s an excerpt from Anti-teaching: Confronting the crisis […]