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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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A seemingly simple question
This seems like a seemingly simple question for teachers: Could you identify 10 excellent web sites for your grade level / subject area? Ideally, of course, teachers would know 10 or […]
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My posts by month
Here’s a graph that’s probably only of interest to me but I thought I’d share it anyway. If you’re really interested, you can view the live graph. I’ll update it at […]
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Would you send your child to school with a laptop from home?
I found out recently that my local school district now allows students to bring their own laptops from home. I think that this is GREAT (even while simultaneously understanding the […]
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Some new features here at DI
If you haven’t visited this blog’s actual web site lately, I’ve been tweaking a few navigational items. Probably the biggest change is that I added a horizontal navigation bar up […]
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DABA: Clay Burell
Some of you know Clay Burell from his first blog, Beyond School. But what most folks don’t know is that Clay was selected by the folks at Change.orgto be their […]
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The dopamine:yawn ratio
When I think about the edubloggers that I most look forward to reading every day, their posts are very high in this ratio: Or, put more succinctly: This is just […]
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If you could, would you? And, if not, why not?
My series of quotes from The Game of School resonated with a lot of readers. A number of folks felt that the beliefs and concerns that Robert Fried articulated about […]
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