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.
If you’re like me, you have trouble keeping up with all of the great videos that are out there. I love it when others help me separate the wheat from […]
Joe Bower asked if showing teachers how to make self-graded quizzes for students using Google Docs had any value. Specifically, he said: When technology is used to accelerate the worst […]
I don’t often blog about specific technology tools, but Adobe’s new Project ROME looks intriguing. Check out the two videos below. It seems like there might be some powerful possibilities […]
G. V. Ramanathan, emeritus professor of mathematics, statistics, and computer science, asks in the Washington Post: How much math do you really need in everyday life? Ask yourself that — […]
[cross-posted at The Huffington Post] I’ve watched this TED talk by Sugata Mitra several times now. And every time I watch it, my brain keeps asking the same question: In […]
American students generally have the legal right to express their opinions at home on their free time using non-school computer equipment. So here are a few students expressing their opinions […]
The documentary film Waiting for Superman debuted on September 24, 2010. To date it has only grossed $2.7 million at the box office. Just in case you were wondering, however, […]
Diana Senechal left the following comment over on a Wall Street Journal article about computers’ burgeoning ability to individualize student learning: While “individualized instruction” seems an unequivocal good, perhaps it […]
Last December I posted the below video, which is about cyberbullying. Some young people who say they are ‘cutters’ and/or are having suicidal thoughts are leaving comments on the blog post. […]
Corey Dahl (@coreydahlevent) fired his Flip video camera and filmed the event: Happy viewing!
Are you an infrequent edublogger? Would you like to blog more but often have writer’s block? If so, check out Melanie Holtsman’s Fall Blog Challenge. She has a list of weekly […]
Many organizational web sites are simply online brochures: static entities with a few pages of information. They’re not interactive. They’re not updated. Once you’ve read the text and seen the […]
In September 2007 I profiled a book that I had purchased called The 21st Century Principal. In that post, I noted the extreme paucity of content related to digital technologies, […]
In September I had an awesome guest blog series on the topic of what teachers need from administrators. Curt Fuller, a principal in Florida, said I should have a series […]
Today’s front-page headline on the paper version of USA Today: Has social media gone too far? n Seriously? That’s the headline? n When a drunk driver runs over someone, do we blame the […]
I am absolutely delighted to announce that the Connected Principals blog is now a member of the CASTLE blog family. Connected Principals currently has 22 school administrators blogging about technology […]
Miguel Guhlin had an awesome post yesterday about being a courageous edublogger. Here are a couple of quotes: I have found that discussing some topics usually ruffle feathers of those […]
Here’s a video from GOOD and the University of Phoenix. Happy viewing! (hat tip to Dennis Richards)
Steve Dembo said: I don’t see it as teachers spurning technology, or choosing not to take advantage of those new ideas and tools. I think most teachers don’t even realize […]
First up in my analysis of my children’s textbooks for The Textbook Challenge: my 7th-grade daughter’s Environmental Science text. The purpose of the challenge is to compare textbook content to […]
Here’s a quote for you: n n … I’ve decided to hang up my blogging hat. I was a fool, and I didn’t anticipate how this kind of thing could […]
The School Administrators of Iowa (SAI), which has been a critical partner and steadfast supporter of our work here at CASTLE, asked all of its members to recommend some advocacy priorities […]
I have been known to say that there’s not much in your children’s textbooks that isn’t available in at least a dozen places online for free. But, hey, maybe I’m […]
Last week was another phenomenal week of guest blogging here at Dangerously Irrelevant. I had invited guests to reflect on how to reconcile standards- and data-driven accountability with so-called ‘21st […]
A new video from John Spencer: [Hat tip to Greg Carroll]
The Technology Information Center for Administrative Leadership (TICAL) is an incredible technology leadership resource for school administrators. If you have not spent some time on the TICAL web site, you […]
On Monday I launch The Textbook Challenge. What’s that, you say? You’ll have to wait and see. I’m giving out prizes. Hope you’ll participate!
North Scott High School in Eldridge, Iowa is allowing students to use their cell phones for practice tests. Teachers are using PollEverywhere to assess students’ knowledge and see what course […]
Here’s IDEO’s take on the future of the book: A hat tip to Don Tapscott. I added this video to my new page on The Future of Print.
In August I put out the call for guest bloggers on the topic of Reconciling standards- and data-driven accountability with the ’21st century skills’ movement. I had a number of […]