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.
Listen to this post! A couple of days ago Network World had a story on the latest generation of GPS technologies used to track schoolbuses. The Everyday Wireless system that […]
Listen to this post! Every week day I receive the ASCD SmartBrief in my e-mail inbox. Usually it’s an excellent overview of some key stories that are happening in K-12 […]
Listen to this post! To date we’ve had 132 education bloggers submit responses for our education blogosphere survey. If you haven’t yet participated and would like to avoid being labeled […]
Listen to this post! Last October I announced a bold new CASTLE initiative. Because of what was clearly a lack of presence by school principals in the blogosphere, we set […]
Listen to this post! Thanks to Seth Godin’s blog , today I found this very cool resource for teachers and students looking for different visual ways to represent information: A […]
Listen to this post! Pete Reilly’s excellent post should be required reading for school administrators worried about online safety issues. I’ve blogged about this issue before, notably here and here. […]
Listen to this post! Dan Meyer is a dynamic young math teacher for the San Lorenzo Valley Unified School District. He totally gets it when it comes to assessment. Here […]
Listen to this post! I rarely write about technology tools here, but I ran across two web tools recently that I think may be useful for bloggers… Cite Bite. Input […]
Listen to this post! Hear ye! Hear ye! All education bloggers are hereby invited and encouraged to… complete the short and completely unscientific, but hopefully interesting, education blogosphere survey; forward […]
Listen to this post! David Warlick blogged a bit about this idea last June, but I thought it was interesting that one of the most popular articles in 2006 from […]
Listen to this post! Will Richardson blogged yesterday about a comment by Daniel Kinnaman, publisher of District Administration magazine, regarding K-12 education: Alarmingly, there may be no sector of society […]
Listen to this post! This semester I taught the College’s School and Society class to our preservice teachers. This foundations course acquaints students with the historical, philosophical, sociological, and political […]
Listen to this post! Over the past couple of days, David Warlick has posted several times about the decreasing need for students to memorize discrete, unconnected factual bits of academic […]
Listen to this post! The December 2006 issue of NASSP Bulletin has an article by Drs. Chien Yu and Vance A. Durrington, assistant professors at Mississippi State University, on practicing […]
Listen to this post! Know thyself and Nothing in excess (inscribed at the entrance to the Temple of Apollo at Delphi) Since I’ve now been ‘tagged’ with the 5 Things […]
Listen to this post! It’s a new year: a good time to reflect on my past 4+ months of blogging. It’s been quite an adventure. My learning has been exponential […]
Okay, at the risk of being labeled a Scrooge, I’m going to say it, because one of the things we bloggers do is challenge each other (hopefully politely) to spark […]
Miguel posted aboutJohn’s graph on rate of change. Here’s how I’ve presented on this topic… Cue up the dueling banjos!
I’m hoping that most of us bloggers will do what some folks did last December: create a top 10 (or so) list of their favorite / most important / most […]
So I had this great idea. I’d contact TIME magazine, ask them for a clean PDF version of (and permission to freely reprint) their great article from last week, and […]
Today is the last day of Chart Week here at Dangerously Irrelevant. Today’s post addresses teacher professional development regarding classroom Internet usage. All data are from the recently-released NCES report, […]
Today is the fourth day of Chart Week here at Dangerously Irrelevant. Today’s post relates to the various technologies and procedures that public schools use to protect students from inappropriate […]
Today is the third day of Chart Week here at Dangerously Irrelevant. Yesterday’s post on student laptops and wireless classrooms discussed how many public schools lend laptops to students and […]
A few final notes about the TIES conference … The highlight of the conference for me was the hour I got to spend hanging out with Dr. Jim Hirsch , […]
After my TIES session last Tuesday on blogging administrators , I sat in on a presentation by Aimee Bissonette. Aimee is an attorney for Little Buffalo Law & Consulting and […]
Today is the second day of Chart Week here at Dangerously Irrelevant. Yesterday’s topic, Internet access in public schools and public school classrooms, may not have been very exciting for […]
Here’s a fun video from the Minneapolis Star Tribune. A reporter interviewed local teens on the topic of Internet safety. Nothing too earth-shattering here, but fun nonetheless. Mindworks: Internet safety […]
Today kicks off Chart Week here at Dangerously Irrelevant. Today’s topic is Internet access in public schools and public school classrooms. All data are from the recently-released NCES report, Internet […]
On Tuesday at the TIES conference I gave a presentation titled The Blogging Administrator. I discussed the benefits to principals of blogging generally, highlighted our Principal Blogging Project specifically, and […]
Yesterday at the TIES conference I had the honor of giving the lunchtime presentation (i.e., I was the only presentation during that time slot). I gave a presentation titled Can […]