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.
My latest roundup of links and tools… America is not competitive A majority of Fortune 1000 executives surveyed give the American pre-college system a failing grade. As Andrew Trotter reports […]
I recently got this message from an international school: I’ve organized [our] Tech Leadership Team to discuss and develop a Digital Citizenship program for our school. There are 27 members of […]
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Just a reminder that proposals for NECC 2009 are due tomorrow!
Gawker Media has Gizmodo, Lifehacker, The Consumerist, Valleywag, Gawker, and seven others. Weblogs, Inc. has Engadget, Autoblog, Joystiq, Luxist, Download Squad, and too many others to count. Education Week and […]
I am pleased to announce that Jim Dornberg of EdTechUpdate is our first BlogBall champion! Well, okay, not that pleased given that my third-place team ended up sixth after the […]
Two years ago I was named a Leader in Learning by the cable industry. This year Dan Meyer was named one too. Who will be next? Nominations are now open […]
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I’m going to try something new here at Dangerously Irrelevant. I signed up for the Blogger’s Challenge at DonorsChoose.org, added myself to the list of technology blogs, and put a […]
Here’s a message that I recently received from a middle school science teacher: n n I am a technology-loving science educator. I need your help and here is the short […]
Does anyone know of some superintendents who are podcasting? If so, would you drop a URL and/or some contact info in the comments area for this post? Doug Johnson and […]
Am I any different than your friend or relative that insists on witnessing to you every time you see each other? Am I any different than the Hare Krishnas at […]
My latest roundup of links and tools… When did the IT staff get promoted above the superintendent? Will Richardson notes: [A] school superintendent I spoke with … lamented the fact […]
A technology director in Indiana asked me: What are the ‘best’ designs you are seeing for a ‘traditional’ computer lab setup? I am looking for a lab design that allows […]
The authors of Blown to Bits, an absolutely superb book on life ‘after the digital explosion,’ note that There is a difference … between ‘public’ and ‘readily accessible.’ Public records […]
Many of us don’t think much about the back of our business cards. I think they’re an opportunity. Here’s what it says on the back of my card: … and […]
This semester my preservice administrator students are creating a wiki that hopefully will become a helpful resource for high-poverty rural school districts. In particular, they’re trying to locate resources that […]
About a month ago, I posted my annual Beginning of the Year Technology Checklist and wondered (again) if schools had made any progress since the previous year. This year I […]
Years before we had ‘Good is the enemy of great,’ we had Seth Godin in Fast Company: Competent people resist change. Why? Because change threatens to make them less competent. […]
Three great questions I especially like the last of these three questions from Rodney Trice. We should be asking teachers and principals that question more often (and just that directly). […]
Apparently I sparked a little discussion by a local school board! You’ve got to give them credit for asking the right questions and also being willing to experiment publicly with […]
Imagine you’re a new MBA student at Lehigh University. After a little while in your program, you’re ready – like any good Internet citizen – to share your experiences with […]
Angela Maiers asked “What advice do you have for those just starting?” Here was my response: Start with a RSS reader. Seed it with a few select feeds of interest […]
Cities across the country are paying students (and, sometimes, parents) for academic success, meeting attendance, and so on. See, for example, Des Moines, Washington, D.C., New York, Chicago, Baltimore, and […]
I don’t blog about technology tools too often, but I thought I’d share my computer setup at home (my setup at work is quite similar): I have no data files […]
My latest roundup of links and tools… The critics need a reboot David Wolman’s article in Wired Magazine is a quick and effective rebuttal of those who claim that technology […]
Over on the World Class Schools for Iowa blog, Linda Fandel of the Des Moines Registerinterviewed Chris Bern, new president of the Iowa State Education Association. At the end of […]