And the toy blocks I cannot wait to get my hot little hands on. I can’t wait to see these in my classroom!

For some, they already have. Check out this TED Talk by video game designer David Perry for a special clip of an excellent video by Michael Highland, As Real As Your Life:

Lunch Lessons: Changing the Way We Feed Our Children, Chef Ann Cooper

While I hold to the African proverb “It takes a village to raise a child”, I find myself feeling highly uncomfortable when I see a parent behaving irrationally or otherwise unkindly towards a child. What do I say? Who am I to intervene?

Kevin Kelly on the next 5,000 days of the Web, TED Talks, December 2007: