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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USA Today asks (in all seriousness): Has social media gone too far?

Today’s front-page headline on the paper version of USA Today: Has social media gone too far? n Seriously? That’s the headline? n When a drunk driver runs over someone, do we blame the […]

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Connected Principals has joined the CASTLE family!

I am absolutely delighted to announce that the Connected Principals blog is now a member of the CASTLE blog family. Connected Principals currently has 22 school administrators blogging about technology […]

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Be a courageous edublogger

Miguel Guhlin had an awesome post yesterday about being a courageous edublogger. Here are a couple of quotes: I have found that discussing some topics usually ruffle feathers of those […]

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Video – Education in America

Here’s a video from GOOD and the University of Phoenix. Happy viewing! (hat tip to Dennis Richards)

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We can’t let educators off the hook

Steve Dembo said: I don’t see it as teachers spurning technology, or choosing not to take advantage of those new ideas and tools. I think most teachers don’t even realize […]

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The Textbook Challenge: Environmental Science (7th grade)

First up in my analysis of my children’s textbooks for The Textbook Challenge: my 7th-grade daughter’s Environmental Science text. The purpose of the challenge is to compare textbook content to […]

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I misunderstood the technology, and the consequences are devastating for me personally

Here’s a quote for you: n n … I’ve decided to hang up my blogging hat. I was a fool, and I didn’t anticipate how this kind of thing could […]

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