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 a student who was in a school district’s middle-school-only 1:1 laptop program, it’s tough to go back to ring-binder-and-notebook-paper classrooms when she transitions to the high school. n For a child […]
I’ve been using a nifty little add-in for Gmail that I thought was worth sharing. Boomerang for Gmail gives you greater control of your e-mails by allowing you to hide […]
Below is a nifty video, Mobile Year in Review 2010, that highlights some of the changes we saw last year related to mobile phones and computing. My favorite statistic is this […]
Chris Lehmann and I submitted our book to the publisher yesterday: McLeod, S., & Lehmann, C. (Eds.). (in press). What school administrators need to know about digital technologies and social […]
In a critique of the latest PISA results, Walt Gardner said: Shanghai is hardly representative of China because it is an industrialized center with scores of modern universities. In contrast, […]
Larry Cuban says: Teaching, then, whether in graduate schools or kindergartens – in elite universities or slum schools – binds all of us together. In teaching we display our views […]
Well, 2010 is over; hope it was a good one for you. For those who may be interested, here are a few statistics about this blog from the past year… Overview […]
Two more videos about The School of One in New York City. If you haven’t already seen it, be sure to also watch the program overview video. Happy viewing!
Here are some things that you may remember from the science fiction movie classic, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial: At the beginning, E.T. is a little bit mysterious and spooky Most of […]
Here is Youngme Moon’s awesome anti-creativity checklist. How many boxes can you check for your school leaders? Moon is the author of Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd, which is nearing […]
Yesterday I had the pleasure of graduating two Ph.D. students here at Iowa State University. Commencement is always one of my favorite times as a faculty member. Dr. Kim Buryanek […]
I thought maybe this was the year I didn’t blog about Christmas messages from public schools. But, of course, the topic has come up again. ‘Tis the season… n Start […]
Remember when I was looking for some interesting opportunities for my fall sabbatical? Well, those didn’t pan out so much (thanks for the offer to teach middle school again, Russ!) […]
In a recent comment, Bill Bradley said: photo © 2007 Jamie Williams | more info (via: Wylio)I used to think that the cost [of student laptops] was ridiculous, until I […]
Joe Bower said: n n Because school defines learning as passive, learners come to see education as something done to them. When students are stuck in the middle of a […]
It’s time to vote for the 2010 Edublog Awards, the ‘Oscars of the education blogosphere.’ All votes are due by noon Eastern, December 14. Winners will be announced soon thereafter. […]
photo © 2008 Eddie~S | more info (via: Wylio) This morning the New York Times published a phenomenal article on the struggles of parents to keep up with their kids’ […]
I said this to some foundation folks recently: Any corporation, government agency, worldwide church, school, university, foundation, or other institution that enjoyed the ability to broadcast to the passive masses is going […]
I recently received this e-mail from a principal: Our district has always hired teachers to be in charge of the technology in their respective buildings. Because we are growing rapidly, […]
If we were really serious about educational technology, we would… [here are 10 to get you started] show students how to edit their privacy settings and use groups in Facebook […]
Russ Goerend said in a recent comment at this blog: n n I’m asking for a simple change in mindset and approach: n Ed tech advocate: We should use Skype!nLearning […]
Good news! According to a recent Tech&Learning survey of its readers regarding use of digital technologies in their schools, over 90% of the survey respondents reported that they were either […]
Dissertations are difficult things. There are multiple reasons why most folks don’t have one. Here are some words of wisdom that I’ve heard from others and now pass along to […]
Dangerously Irrelevant has been loading slowly lately because it’s so video-heavy. I’ve temporarily removed some other elements in order to speed up loading of the home page. I also vowed to […]
Here’s a short video on Internet safety (hat tip to Kevin Honeycutt). Happy viewing!
Here’s a clip from a video on the retouching of photos in magazines: The above clip reminds me of this Dove commercial: Given the incredible amount of media that our […]
Google CEO Eric Schmidt on American innovation (“that’s an example of fighting the last war”) Alcoa CEO Klaus Kleinfeld on doing more with less (“yes, yes, and yes”)
Five online resources worth checking out… Pam Moran’s awesome post on our tendency to admire problems rather than working on solutions. Ryan Bretag asks “How would we react to students if […]
These posts got the most web traffic on my two blogs in October 2010: Dangerously Irrelevant Videos – I hate my teacher 12 videos to spark educators’ thinking We can’t […]