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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For those of you who haven’t been following politics in Thailand, apparently today’s an important day. Some of the political parties there have been accused of rigging last year’s election […]
Internet access in developing countries can be prohibitively expensive and cumbersome (e.g., thousands of dollars per month for speeds that often are less than dial-up). Now imagine if someone identified […]
[cartoon made with stripcreator; click on the image to see a larger version] Read more about the case (and see the YouTube video). Then check out the post at BoardBuzz. […]
I have had the pleasure of working with the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) on several occasions over the past few years, primarily in conjunction with its Principal Technology Leadership Institute […]
From Seth Godin: When there’s a gap between someone doing her job and doing the right thing, then management has failed. I bet we could come up with some examples […]
[cross-posted at the TechLearning blog ] There are two primary standards documents for school administrators: ISLLC and ELCC. Together they broadly define the parameters of school leaders’ work. They also […]
Jim Gates points out that Pennsylvania legislators have introduced a bill to ban cellphones and ‘other portable electronic devices that record or play audio or video material.’ The language of […]
I just ran across this Alan November post on the ‘laptop lashback.’ Here’s a great quote: Teachers have not changed the way they teach. We are using $2,000 pencils. Also, […]
Random musings. Half-finished (and quite possibly half-baked) thoughts. Things that have caught my eye… Interesting perspectives on the infamous software study “We now have educational software that is just as […]
Kimberly Moritz publicly challenged her superintendent to start a blog. He made a very sensible reply. And yet… I wonder what other superintendents who ARE blogging would say to him. […]
Minnesota’s Teacher of the Year is smart. Not just because of his last name, but because he started a blog to chronicle his adventures. What a great idea. He’s off […]
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 course the power of blogs […]
Hot off the press! Advanced readers are bored by drill-and-kill exercises Big surprise, I know. I invite you to read the article and share your thoughts. What do you think […]
On Sunday I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Dr. Sara Dexter. Sara is an Assistant Professor of technology leadership in the Department of Leadership, Foundations, and Policy at […]
On Monday I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Wesley Fryer. We talked about blogging, LeaderTalk, CASTLE’s Principal Blogging Project, and technology leadership issues. If you’re interested, here’s the […]
I’m pleased to announce that Dr. David Whale, Associate Professor in the Educational Leadership Department at Central Michigan University, will be my guest blogger next week. David is interested in […]
[cross-posted at the TechLearning blog] One of the questions that I ask right at the beginning of our students’ School Technology Leadership certificate program is whether administrators can be effective […]
A couple of weeks ago I posted about U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings’ ed tech woes. Apparently now she wants to hear from YOU. Please give her your thoughts […]
I rarely share personal news here, but since the word is starting to get out, I might as well publicly announce that I’m leaving the University of Minnesota. I accepted […]
[cross-posted at LeaderTalk] Individual choices add up. For example, at the moment when I eat something unhealthy, it seems like a fairly trivial thing. Over time, however, those calories and […]
On Monday I got an e-mail from an elementary principal: Scott, it looks like I won’t be able to follow through with the [Principal Blogging Project]. Our district technology person […]
[cross-posted at LeaderTalk] nn K-12 and postsecondary education would be very different if we asked ourselvesnthis question more often (thanks,nStephanie). Is your organization ready to take this inquiry to heart […]
Hey, all you educational bloggers! Get the vote out! Vote for Will, or Stephen, or Women of the Web, or (if you’re delusional) me, or whomever, but vote!
It may be friendly, but you still want to make sure there’s nothing breakable within reach.