The only way I can fix my back is to be more like Henry Rollins

This is not a political space by any means and while I love following the races and discussing politics with folks in civil space I mostly keep that away from this blog. There is on measure here in Multnomah County … Continue reading →

My GeekDad colleague James Floyd Kelly and I teamed up to do our investigative report on Ben Bertoli, who teaches sixth grade math, science and language arts in Indianapolis, Indiana. Ben's launching ClassRealm, his project to gamify education through a customizable classroom management system built on role playing themes.

New York City was recently the host to the North East Conference on Science and Skepticism, or NECSS which is pronounced "nexus." NECSS ran over three days and included some great events outside of the conference in different venues in NYC. Saturday April 20th was a full day of panels ...

Reading With Pictures is a non-profit organization that aims to "get comics into schools and get schools into comics." Tom Stillwell wrote about their first anthology last year, which covered a variety of subjects as their proof of concept, and was very well-received. Now, RWP is seeking funding on Kickstarter ...

Kickstarter is pretty big business these days. In 2011 nearly $100 million was pledged, and I can imagine it's only going to keep growing, at least in the immediate future. Musicians, filmmakers, board game designers, actors, painters, illustrators, writers ... the list of folks who have benefited from Kickstarter is ...

One of the most important tenets I live by is that education never stops. A quick way for something to catch my attention is to have an area marked with words such as "tutorial," "learn," "guide," and all those other great words. Now a company that has always had a ...

Daniel Pinkwater, an icon among geek readers, has always said that his audience is smart. This week he heard from several fans in New York State, who were surprised to find an excerpt from his novel Borgel on the state's English Language Arts test for 8th graders.

he GeekDad community at Wired.com is committed to helping you raise geek generation 2.0. Back in March of 2012 we put out a post of our favorite books to read aloud to our kids before the age of ten. Well the post turned out to be a bit of a ...

I ask you, oh wise and knowledgeable DadCentric readers, in the spirit of blogosphere community and buttinski-ism, to give my boy some advice for his 10th year on Earth and (cue cavernous echo effect) BEEEEE-YOOOOOoooond.