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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A talk to parents: Why laptops?

You’re about to hand laptops over to their 12– and 13–year-old children. What do you tell your school’s parents? Here are some excerpts from what Rob McCrae, ICT Director for the […]

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Video: Student disengagement

I love this video. How much of this occurs in your school on a day-to-day basis? What would your kids say?

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Does hyper-texting lead to stress and depression? Or vice versa?

We know that teens text a LOT: the average teenager sends 3,339 texts a month. Many adults are worried about the potential negative impacts upon youth of all of this texting. […]

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Are administrators who blog and Tweet self-indulgent at the expense of their schools?

Over on Ryan Bretag’s blog, Matt Landahl said: I watch principals or superintendents who tweet or blog a lot, and often I wonder what they could be doing in their […]

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Where have I been?

They say that you’re not supposed to apologize for not blogging. Instead, you’re supposed to just start back up again. But I’m usually much more prolific online and have been absent for […]

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HELP WANTED – Research study of alumni of 1:1 laptop schools

My doctoral student, Trent Grundmeyer, wants to study alumni of 1:1 laptop schools for his dissertation. More specifically, he’s interested in those students’ perceptions of their college readiness, college learning, […]

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