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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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Technological change is destined to be resisted by the teachers unions
Terry Moe and John Chubb say… n n The fact that [technology] offers enormous benefits is not enough to guarantee that it will be embraced by the public schools and […]
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Technology will free learning from the dead hand of the past
Terry Moe and John Chubb say… n n The American education system faces much more than a performance problem. It also faces a political problem that, in the grander scheme […]
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It would be impossible for the information revolution to unfold and NOT have transformative implications for how children can be educated
Terry Moe and John Chubb say… n n Even today, with educational technology in its earliest stages: n n Curricula can be customized to meet the learning styles and life […]
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Education’s resistance to technology will be overcome
Terry Moe and John Chubb say… n n The revolution in information technology is historic in its force and scope: reshaping the fundamentals of how human beings from every corner […]
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Tony Wagner speaks to Iowa educators, Part 3
Dr. Tony Wagner of Harvard University, who authored The Global Achievement Gap, is speaking to over 600 Iowa administrators and teachers today in Des Moines. Nearly 30 students are liveblogging their reactions […]
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Tony Wagner speaks to Iowa educators, Part 2
Dr. Tony Wagner of Harvard University, who authored The Global Achievement Gap, is speaking to over 600 Iowa administrators and teachers today in Des Moines. Nearly 30 students are liveblogging their reactions […]
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Tony Wagner speaks to Iowa educators, Part 1
Dr. Tony Wagner of Harvard University, who authored The Global Achievement Gap, is speaking to over 600 Iowa administrators and teachers today in Des Moines. Nearly 30 students are liveblogging […]
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