Video Links

These video links about early childhood topics and ideas have been carefully selected from around the web:

 Presentation: Stuart Brown

A pioneer in research on play, Dr. Stuart Brown says humour, games, roughhousing, flirtation and fantasy are more than just fun. Plenty of play in childhood makes for happy, smart adults – and keeping it up can make us smarter at any age.

http://www.ted.com/talks/stuart_brown_says_play_is_more_than_fun_it_s_vital.html

Annie Murphy Paul

Fetal origins research is not about blaming women for what happens during pregnancy; it’s about discovering how best to promote the health and well-being of the next generation. 

http://www.ted.com/quotes/fetal_origins_research_is_not_about_blaming_women_for_what_hap.html

Alan Kay shares a powerful idea about ideas

With all the intensity and brilliance for which he is known, Alan Kay envisions better techniques for teaching kids by using computers to illustrate experience in ways – mathematically and scientifically – that only computers can.