It’s the force majeure of the parenting vocabulary — a statement that asserts complete authority and brings the gavel down on further debate. Because I said so. But have you ever considered your relationship to “because I said so?” Is it a trusty club in your golf bag that you know you can ...

Piano Apprentice is an app-cessory. It turns your iPad into a small electronic piano with the ability to play video tutorials and sells itself as a piano teaching tool.

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.

We were reading a story one night, when she asked “What’s that?”  her finger squarely on a giant question mark.  This opened her eyes to the world of punctuation and from then on she was hooked.  Now at night, when … Continue reading →...

In 2004, a former hedge fund analyst began recording and posting videos of himself explaining some math techniques, posting the videos to YouTube. By 2012, Salman Khan had more than 3,000 lessons online, 140 million views, and a reputation as an education guru. Khan Academy is not a panacea for ...

As previously reported in "Out of my comfort zone" I have been teaching twins English for the last month or so here in tropical Moscow. I go every day and spend ninety minutes separately with each child. Teaching adults is far easier than teaching c...

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...

I have been a devoted fan of writing since my heady days in the third and fourth grades when a few friends and I took pencil to paper to create our own (illustrated!) series of Choose Your Own Adventure stories and Doctor Who fan fiction (chicks dug us...