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.

In fact, I triple dog dare you… The resilience of teacher culture (6:28) [Dr. Elmore‘s full speech and other excerpts are available on my Podcasts page]
Many of our school leaders (principals, superintendents, central office administrators) need help when it comes to digital technologies . A lot of help, to be honest. As I’ve noted again […]
I’ve been laying low for a few days, giving Did YounKnow? 2.0 the opportunity to get some traction. So far, so good,nalthough I don’t expect it to get as much […]
Karl Fisch and I are very pleased to announce the new version of Did You Know? Did You Know? 2.0 As you’ll see, we tried to minimize what some perceived […]
I’ll tell you something I’ve noticed from visiting a lot of American schools: the more traditional the teacher, the grimmer the mood. These classrooms don’t always resemble Dickensian factories, mind […]
From a colleague’s e-mail autoreply: I am away for the summer semester and will return Aug 15, 2007. I will not be able to respond to your e-mail until then. […]
[cross-posted at the TechLearning blog ] A few back-of-the-envelope calculations here (estimating conservatively when in doubt)… A. Number of students and teachers 50 million public school students+3.3 million public school […]