The story so far I have been working as a male manny (nanny), tutor, surrogate father to a Russian oligarch child (see other links at the bottom of this section). My temporary role, as a wind up toy for child X, came to an end this week. Mrs X, m...

Eric Mazur is a professor of physics at Harvard. Like many successful academics, he was trained to teach in the same way he learned — standing in front of a room filled with students and lecturing them on the fundamentals of Newtonian mechanics (among other things). If his course evaluations ...

Literacy and numeracy are important. We all know our children need to be able to read and write and add up, but increasingly as the pace of change in our world increases what were once seen as fundamental aspects of education need to be challenged. And, thankfully, there are people ...

Literacy and numeracy are important. We all know our children need to be able to read and write and add up, but increasingly as the pace of change in our world increases what were once seen as fundamental aspects of education need to be challenged. And, thankfully, there are people ...

I came across Ryan Alexander-Tanner at Wordstock, where he had copies of his book To Teach: The Journey, in Comics. It’s one that I haven’t read myself, but had heard of, so I stopped to chat with him. Alexander-Tanner works with kids and comics, leading comics-making workshops and using comics ...

The opinions contained below are mine, and not necessarily those of DadCentric. But they might be. Pardon me a rant... We've been so obsessed with empowering our girls, rightfully so, that we've allowed society to de-power our boys. I'm not...

Explaining the paragraph to a seven-year-old.

It turns out that Angry Birds is more than just an incredibly popular, highly addicting video game. It seems that, used in the right way, it has legitimate educational value. According to an article at eSchool News (registration required in order to read the complete article), some physics teachers have embraced ...

I must give my mom full credit for this post — growing up in Florida was great, but living in the Panhandle during the summer months meant hot, muggy days with an always predictable afternoon shower to make things even more intolerable. At certain times in the summer, parents in ...

Abercrombie and Fitch… this is what my kids are supposed to wear. Don’t get me wrong. We had our fads back in my day. Maybe you remember having to have those Guess jeans or that Members Only jacket. I had four swatches and a pair of Ray Ban...