"Exploring power, ownership, and equity in an early childhood classroom". A fascinating piece, albeit mired in rather cringe-making hippie-speak.

Command line utility for playing audio files (anything that Quicktime can handle)

Interesting multipurpose toy-thing. I'll be getting a few for the increasing number of lovely children I buy Christmas presents for. Please, enough with the breeding everyone, though, it's costing me a fortune ;-)

"At elementary schools, kindergartens, and preschools all across Japan, kids are losing themselves making hikaru dorodango, or balls of mud that shine."

Pat Kane's Play Ethic-related weblog.

Instant City is a music building game table. one or more players at a table can create architecture using semi-transparent building blocks and in the process make different modular compositions audible.

Games: The Cultural Elaboration of Play (nb. permalink to this post is broken)