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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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Survey results – It’s the first day of school (2008)!
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 […]
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Competence is the enemy of change
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. […]
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Not so irrelevant 012
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). […]
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Sparking some school board discussion
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 […]
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Meet Tony Powell and The University Review
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 […]
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Advice (and a video) for those just starting
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 […]
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Should schools be paying students and parents?
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 […]
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