Scott McLeod

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.

THE PUSH is struggling a bit right now. The past few categories have been tough. Yesterday we only identified 3 excellent agricultural education blogs. We’re doing okay in most other areas […]
Seth Godin is one of my favorite thinkers. I’ve learned a ton from him. Here are a couple of quotes from his post today on education. School was the big […]
Here’s a quote I ran across today from Lawrence Lessig (whom I heard speak for a few minutes in July!): n n [W]hile the Internet has indeed produced something fantastic […]
THE PUSH is a hit: we’re getting closer and closer to 200 excellent subject-specific P-12 blogs! However, we’re in a really tough stretch right now. Yesterday we only identified 2 excellent […]
The personal computer has been around for about 30 years. For most of us, the Internet has been around for about 10 years. And yet we still have a sizable […]
By all accounts THE PUSH has been a big success. However, some areas are more difficult than others. For example, yesterday we only identified 1 excellent drama / theater education blog. That’s […]
As a blogger, it’s sometimes hard to anticipate how folks will react to your content. If you’re striving to reach and dialogue with others, hopefully your blogging is of value […]
Yesterday THE PUSH identified 20 excellent special education blogs. Nice work, everyone! Here’s how we’re doing in other areas: 2 vocational / applied / industrial technology education blogs (we need more of these!), 5 […]
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Yesterday was a tough day for THE PUSH. We only came up with 2 excellent vocational / applied / industrial technology education blogs yesterday. If you know of any more, we […]
Download this file: pngpptpptx See also my other slides and the Great Quotes About Learning and Change Flickr pool. UPDATE 1: In addition to the great comments below, see alsomy follow-up post. […]
Well, THE PUSH only came up with 4 excellent physical / health education blogs yesterday. If you know of any more, we could use them. Here’s how we’re doing in other areas: […]
Here are my notes from Dr. Yong Zhao’s presentation, Catching Up or Leading the Way: American Education in the Age of Globalization, at the 2009 School Administrators of Iowa (SAI) conference… […]
THE PUSH has a big challenge today. Are we up to the task? Yesterday we identified 7 excellent music education blogs. Here’s how we’re doing in other areas: 13 art education […]
On page 52 of Free: The Future of a Radical Price, Chris Anderson notes: Products that can become commoditized and cheap tend to do so, and companies seeking profits move […]
THE PUSH continues to get more DIFFICULT as we head away from the “core” areas. Yesterday was a good day. We identified 12 excellent art education blogs. Here’s how we’re doing in […]
The New York Timesreports today on a study of MySpace users from the United Kingdom. Here is a quote from the article: The MySpace study asked social networking users between […]
THE PUSH is getting HARDER as we move away from the “core” areas. Yesterday we only identified 2 (yes, 2) excellent language education blogs. We’re doing much better in other areas: 9 Social Studies […]
THE PUSH continues… So far we’re up to: 6 Social Studies education blogs (really? that’s all?), 9 English / language arts education blogs, 17 science education blogs, and 24 math education […]
Tom Whitby had an interesting idea: create a Twitter account for a school administrator that was pre-loaded with 50 people to follow. n n Beth Still liked the idea and blogged about it. […]