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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You can’t get to outer space with a rowboat

You can’t get to outer space with a rowboat. You need something with a little more oomph.nNeither can you get to genuine 21st century learning environments without putting a computer in every kid’s hands. Not just some of the time. All of the time.n

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Teaching philosophy

My teaching philosophy is pretty straightforward. I believe that the teaching-learning process is primarily for the benefit of the learner, not the teacher. all students can, will, and want to […]

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Support engineering – Crazy high school robots that battle for supremacy

Yesterday I got the e-mail below. I watched the video trailer and made my contribution this morning. Crazy high school robots battling it out for engineering supremacy? How can you […]

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Is ‘The School of One’ the future of schooling?

Is this school in New York City the future of schooling? The School of One: Program Overview (see also the write-ups at Teaching Matters and The Huffington Post)

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Should we be ashamed of our ability to predict dropouts?

If we can predict fairly accurately whether a student is likely to drop out in 9th or 10th grade 5 or 6 years earlier, isn’t that a pretty big indictment […]

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Video – An open letter to educators

“If institutional education refuses to adapt to the landscape of the information age, it WILL die and SHOULD die.” The video is An Open Letter to Educators. Happy viewing!

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Video – You can’t be my teacher

Not sure how I missed this video last October but, in case you haven’t seen it, here’s You can’t be my teacher. Happy viewing!

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