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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12-04 ISTE conference keynote update – Gary Stager is gaining ground!

Here is the current leaderboard for the ISTE conference keynote crowdsourcing project. Chris Lehmann holds his lead over Jeff Piontek. Gary Stager continues to climb the charts. I’ll try to post […]

Does your school organization reflect our new digital information landscape?

[cross-posted at LeaderTalk] CASTLE has been doing a great deal of technology leadership training for the School Administrators of Iowa, some of the Iowa Area Education Agencies, some of the […]

12-02 ISTE conference keynote update – The crowd speaks!

Here is the current leaderboard for the ISTE conference keynote crowdsourcing project. Chris Lehmann holds his lead over Jeff Piontek. Gary Stager is climbing the charts. n At the beginning […]

Slide – Lose your sleep before your decision, not after it

Download this file: pngpptpptx See also my other slides and the Great Quotes About Learning and Change Flickr pool. Photo credit:2/365 My Work

Dear Will, In less than two weeks you’ll be here in Iowa. We’re excited to have you visit. We’ve got an eager bunch of state leaders awaiting your insights. Just […]

11-30 ISTE conference keynote update – Chris Lehmann retakes lead over Jeff Piontek

Here is the current leaderboard for the ISTE conference keynote crowdsourcing project. Chris Lehmann has retaken the lead over Jeff Piontek. I’ll try to post a daily update between now […]

17 Tweets about the ISTE conference keynote

Today there was what I thought was an engaging Twitter conversation about the ISTE conference keynote crowdsourcing project. Here is the general idea in 17 Tweets… First, I posted about […]

11-29 ISTE conference keynote update – Some backchannel grumbling

Here is the current leaderboard for the ISTE conference keynote crowdsourcing project. Jeff Piontek has widened his lead a bit more over Chris Lehmann. Alan November has claimed the lead […]

11-28 ISTE conference keynote update – Jeffrey Piontek widens lead over Chris Lehmann

Here is the current leaderboard for the ISTE conference keynote crowdsourcing project. Jeffrey Piontek has widened his lead slightly over Chris Lehmann. Alan November also is moving quickly up the […]

11-27 ISTE conference keynote update – Jeffrey Piontek now ahead of Chris Lehmann

Here is the current leaderboard for the ISTE conference keynote crowdsourcing project. As you can see, there’s been a shakeup at the top. Jeffrey Piontek is now slightly ahead of […]

Not enough school administrators are visionaries?

A recent article from The Economist, The Cult of the Faceless Boss, caught my attention. Here’s an excerpt: n n In general, the corporate world needs its flamboyant visionaries and raging […]

11-26 ISTE conference keynote update

Here is the current leaderboard for the ISTE conference keynote crowdsourcing project. I’ll try to post a daily update between now and December 15. Have you voted yet?

11-25 ISTE conference keynote update

Here is the current leaderboard for the ISTE conference keynote crowdsourcing project. I’ll try to post a daily update between now and December 15. Have you voted yet?

Did You Know? video series featured on Huffington Post

The Did You Know? (Shift Happens) video series has been featured twice on The Huffington Post in the past few days. One of the stories currently is the lead for […]

11-24 ISTE conference keynote update

Here is the current leaderboard for the ISTE conference keynote crowdsourcing project. I’ll try to post a daily update between now and December 15. Have you voted yet?

Survey results: Why isn’t your school organization making more progress?

I’d like to thank everyone who participated in my 3minute survey, Why isn’t your school organization making more progress? We had a total of 561 participants. Some charts and tables […]

Please vote for the ISTE 2010 conference keynote!

The next phase of ISTE’s 2010 conference keynote crowdsourcing project is now live. Go vote! The top 5 topics were as follows (in order): Effective school leadership for the digital, […]

UCEA Week 01: I gave a bad presentation yesterday

I gave a bad presentation yesterday. It wasn’t bad because I had poor content or delivery. It was a bad presentation because I didn’t sufficiently account for the needs and […]

You’re fired. I only want people who already know how to do their jobs.

Back in July I said that I was concerned that we never seem to hold folks accountable for being self-learners. I also noted that In many job sectors, employees are […]

3 MINUTE SURVEY: Why isn’t your school organization making more progress?

Why aren’t schools making more progress when it comes to effective implementation and integration of digital technologies? Here’s what K-12 educators usually tell me when asked (list is in no particular […]

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