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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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Internet in a box
Internet access in developing countries can be prohibitively expensive and cumbersome (e.g., thousands of dollars per month for speeds that often are less than dial-up). Now imagine if someone identified […]
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Requa v. Kent School District
[cartoon made with stripcreator; click on the image to see a larger version] Read more about the case (and see the YouTube video). Then check out the post at BoardBuzz. […]
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Interview with Phala Daniel
I have had the pleasure of working with the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) on several occasions over the past few years, primarily in conjunction with its Principal Technology Leadership Institute […]
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Doing the right thing
From Seth Godin: When there’s a gap between someone doing her job and doing the right thing, then management has failed. I bet we could come up with some examples […]
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Administrators, standards, and technology
[cross-posted at the TechLearning blog ] There are two primary standards documents for school administrators: ISLLC and ELCC. Together they broadly define the parameters of school leaders’ work. They also […]
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Pennsylvania legislators want to lock it down
Jim Gates points out that Pennsylvania legislators have introduced a bill to ban cellphones and ‘other portable electronic devices that record or play audio or video material.’ The language of […]
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$2,000 pencils
I just ran across this Alan November post on the ‘laptop lashback.’ Here’s a great quote: Teachers have not changed the way they teach. We are using $2,000 pencils. Also, […]
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