Scott McLeod

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• 11-29 ISTE conference keynote update - Some backchannel grumbling

  
  Dangerously Irrelevant — Authority: 562
  Here is the current leaderboard for the ISTE conference keynote crowdsourcing project . Jeff Piontek has widened his lead a bit more over Chris Lehmann. Alan November has claimed the lead in a category and Karl Fisch is pulling away from Michael Wesch. Does it matter if a nominee nominated himself? Does it matter ...
  14 hours ago

• 11-28 ISTE conference keynote update - Jeffrey Piontek widens lead over Chris Lehmann

  
  Dangerously Irrelevant — Authority: 562
  Here is the current leaderboard for the ISTE conference keynote crowdsourcing project . Jeffrey Piontek has widened his lead slightly over Chris Lehmann. Alan November also is moving quickly up the charts. FYI, if you count totals across ALL categories, Chris Lehmann would be in the lead with 462 votes. Also, ...
  1 day ago

• “Did you know?”

  
  playthink — Authority: 120
  “The top 10 in-demand jobs in 2010. . . [will not have existed] in 2004. . . We are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist. . . using technologies that haven’t been invented. . . in order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet.” In 2006, high school math teacher and ...
  4 days ago

• 11-24 ISTE conference keynote update

  
  Dangerously Irrelevant — Authority: 562
  Here is the current leaderboard for the ISTE conference keynote crowdsourcing project . I’ll try to post a daily update between now and December 15. Have you voted yet?
  5 days ago

• Survey results: Why isnt your school organization making more progress?

  
  Dangerously Irrelevant — Authority: 562
  I’d like to thank everyone who participated in my 3–minute survey, Why isn’t your school organization making more progress? We had a total of 561 participants. Some charts and tables are below (click on images for larger versions). Also, here are some downloadable files: Complete data packet Excel ...
  6 days ago

• Please vote for the ISTE 2010 conference keynote!

  
  Dangerously Irrelevant — Authority: 562
  The next phase of ISTE’s 2010 conference keynote crowdsourcing project is now live. Go vote! The top 5 topics were as follows (in order): Effective school leadership for the digital, global era Trends, tools, and tactics for 21st century learning Personal learning with 21st century tools Universal ...
  6 days ago

• UCEA Week 01: I gave a bad presentation yesterday

  
  Dangerously Irrelevant — Authority: 562
  I gave a bad presentation yesterday. It wasn’t bad because I had poor content or delivery. It was a bad presentation because I didn’t sufficiently account for the needs and understandings of my audience. Let me explain… I’m in Anaheim, California for the annual conference of the University Council for ...
  1 week ago

• Must See YouTube Videos

  
  Dr. Z Reflects — Authority: 480
  What YouTube Videos do you identify as your MUST SEE videos? I was just reviewing Steve Dembos posting about Mandatory YouTube Videos and it got me thinking about which ones I think people should watch. Steve lists a few videos that I knew and liked including: Wesch s A Vision of Student Today and Web 2.0 ...
  1 week ago

• "Youre fired. I only want people who already know how to do their jobs."

  
  Dangerously Irrelevant — Authority: 562
  Back in July I said that I was concerned that we never seem to hold folks accountable for being self-learners. I also noted that In many job sectors, employees are expected to keep up with relevant technologies or risk job loss. When do we require that of K-12 and postsecondary educators? At what point do we ...
  1 week ago

• Our World Is Changing… Exponentially

  
  Scooter Club Golden Triangle — Authority: 122
  I first came across one of these NSR ( non-scooter-related )-videos on an import-tuning website called Skunk2 (don’t ask me why), then tracked back to YouTube and finally, the “ originals “.  They really illustrate how they world around us is shifting and changing at a never-seen-before pace.  Oh, wait, ...
  2 weeks ago

• 3 MINUTE SURVEY: Why isnt your school organization making more progress?

  
  Dangerously Irrelevant — Authority: 562
  Why aren’t schools making more progress when it comes to effective implementation and integration of digital technologies? Here’s what K-12 educators usually tell me when asked (list is in no particular order): Lack of adequate funding Unsupportive state / federal legislators Teacher / union resistance Lack ...
  2 weeks ago

• The (un)certainty of professional persistence

  
  Dangerously Irrelevant — Authority: 562
  There has been a lot of good discussion on my post about the future of books, libraries, librarians, and schools  (thank you, everyone). In addition to the comments on the post itself, there are some excellent thoughts elsewhere as well: Flat World Library Corporation Dangerously irrelevant libraries Ten ...
  3 weeks ago

• Data-driven decision-making resources from CASTLE

  
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  I have done a lot of work over the years on various data-driven decision-making projects. Ive taught courses, given workshops, delivered multi-day institutes for state departments of education and corporate partners, and written book chapters and white papers. I collected some of the highlights of that work on my ...
  3 weeks ago

• Are we too connected?

  
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  WHO TV (Des Moines) aired a special report, Are we too connected ? , on last night’s news broadcast. Among others, they interviewed me and Dr. Michael Bugeja , Professor and Director of Iowa State University’s Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication . I have interacted with Michael a couple of ...
  3 weeks ago

• 10 questions about books, libraries, librarians, and schools

  
  Dangerously Irrelevant — Authority: 562
  [ cross-posted at LeaderTalk ] October apparently was ‘Library Month’ for me. I was the keynote speaker for the Minnesota MEMO conference and did a breakout session for the Iowa Library Association (ILA) conference . I also brought Dr. Mike Eisenberg  to Iowa for three days to talk with school administrators ...
  3 weeks ago

• 10 questions about books, libraries, librarians, and schools

  
  LeaderTalk — Authority: 418
  October apparently was ‘Library Month’ for me. I was the keynote speaker for the Minnesota MEMO conference and did a breakout session for the Iowa Library Association (ILA) conference. I also brought Dr. Mike Eisenberg to Iowa for three days to...
  3 weeks ago

• 10 questions about books, libraries, librarians, and schools

  
  LeaderTalk — Authority: 418
  October apparently was ‘Library Month’ for me. I was the keynote speaker for the Minnesota MEMO conference and did a breakout session for the Iowa Library Association (ILA) conference . I also brought Dr. Mike Eisenberg  to Iowa for three days to talk with school administrators about technology and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Marge Beatty, Nebraska ESU 16, talks about 1:1 laptop programs

  
  Dangerously Irrelevant — Authority: 562
  [ cross-posted at CASTLEs 1-to-1 Schools blog ] While at Nebraska’s first-ever Educational Administrators Technology Conference , I learned that 8 of the 16 districts in Educational Service Unit 16 have 1:1 laptop programs. Marge Beatty , chief administrator for the ESU, was willing to let me ask her a few ...
  4 weeks ago

• My ISTE 2010 keynote topic suggestion just tipped 1,000 votes

  
  Dangerously Irrelevant — Authority: 562
  Two weeks ago, I asked my readers to please vote for my ISTE 2010 conference keynote topic suggestion . Thank you, everyone, who has voted so far. Right now my topic suggestion is leading, but that lead is far from safe. If you haven’t yet voted, would you kindly do so in the next few days? Thanks in advance! ...
  4 weeks ago

• Your technology coordinator works for you, not the other way around

  
  Dangerously Irrelevant — Authority: 562
  A conversation I had with a superintendent at Nebraska’s first-ever Educational Administrators Technology Conference … Superintendent: I’m new to my district. I spent the first year getting the lay of the land. I’m now ready to start making things happen when it comes to technology and our students but our ...
  4 weeks ago

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