Seymour Papert: From Piaget to Game Based Learning

A great hero and inspiration for LILA

Google + Zynga + Metaweb = LILA; winner of 10^100 Project?

Let's see, social games plus semantic web. I have envisioned the marriage of these two since 2005 when I dreamed up LILA.

eLearning Behemoth?

C'mon, let's do it!

I started out calling it 'Google Games'

There wasn't anything that came up on search for Google Games in 2005 when I thought up LILA.

Well, it had something to do with gimmicky search results, such as trying to think up a term that would return 1 result, or two or something like that. Not Games. So, YAY!!!

How do you get to Carnegie Hall?

Yeah, that's right, practice! For a decade. Three hours a day.

10^100?

Indeed!

Meena needs LILA

Word games for girls in poverty? Targeted at their sweet spot of learning? In any topic?

LILA! Meet Meena!

Neal Stephenson - Alternate Reality Game base novel APP!!

Mobile interactive novel.

Differentiated Instruction?

Could it be?

Lila for LILA?

Vision, experience plus a lot of intangibles....

Google Tips

TY

Kleiner Perkins Ups The Ante on iPad/iPhone Education Apps

Do I have the courage?

One Step Closer to Ubiquity

Add cognitive assessment and voila'!

or perhaps I should say LILA'!

Infant's Sensitivity To Voice At Seven Months Has Implications for Kidiwiki

Not sure what they mean by 'adult-like responses' in the neonate. Cause folks everywhere are scratching their heads regarding this as a developmental threshold. But then again, it's Yahoo news, not the exact wording of the study in Neuron.

craig-barrett-takes-on-vivek-wadhwa-in-the-tech-education-debate

If only these guys were aware of the implications of LILA.

The Redemption Of Western Culture

By studying the writings of Parmenides and Empedocles, the teachers of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, Peter Kingsley has identified the core misunderstanding that has caused Western Culture to be guided in the wrong direction. Toward separation instead of oneness, away from the senses, instead of directly through them, the western traditions have found 'no meaning' instead of the truth. Can the west, seemingly ignorant, arrogant and doomed on its present path, find redemption in this new knowledge of the essence of its indigenous spirituality?

Tender and Cool

And

The Best Ad for LILA, Evah! Thanks Jesse Schell.

Wii Games - E3 2010 - Guitar Hero 5

The Next Evolutionary Stage For Humanity

Thank you Jane. Google, Jane...Jane, Google. I'm LILA.

Google's Acquisition of Aardvark

I'd seriously like to believe that Google is preparing to launch LILA, because this acquisition is right square in line with it, social, semantic, user generated. All it needs is cognitive assessment and play/games. And Jane McGonigal.

iPad and Educational Interfaces

Insightful commentary re iPad, video conferencing, social networking with enormous implications for learning and creativity/productivity, etc. And the mention of the wife's PhD thesis on such implications for learning takes it to the stratosphere. Kidiwiki and LILA were meant for this arc. It's inevitable/inexorable.

11-year old develops iSketch app for iPhone, donates proceeds to children's hospital.

As it says at the end of the article, humbling.

Why Google is the choice to develop LILA

This issue becomes even more important to the algorithmic engine required for LILA.

Work Into Play

This and the quote from Eric Scmidt about everything online being like playing a game. Yeah, I'm still hopin' G picks LILA.

Searcher Specific Cognitive Algorithmic Support

If the searcher allowed for cognitive assessment, contextual cues could be specifically designed for each searcher. This is really the core concept of LILA and would take into account searcher's cognitive levels, matching them contextually to improve the quality of search results. Interests, Ontologies and other knowledge bases could be assessed by such an algorithm as well.
One spectacular benefit of such an approach to search would be even more practical, useful and successful advertising to a searcher. Searchers would be much more matched for advertising, getting a lot closer fit to any products they may be interested in.

Could this be a major platform for LILA?

So far, the games seem silly, but could things change once cognitive assessment is added?

How LILA will be adopted.

The moment in this article, "A 13-year-old, illiterate kid who’d never seen a computer wandered over tentatively, and soon realized he could move the cursor by moving a finger across the touch pad. Within four hours, a small group of kids had gathered. They had figured out how to open Internet Explorer and were playing a game on Disney’s Web site."

I would like to see this ASAP for every child on earth.

OLPC in Uruguay

LILA next?

Massive Disruption in Education Industry

This is nice to hear from someone else for a change.

Touchscreen- a new frontier - Kidiwiki

New thinking here, lots of it....

Transforming Education Through The Internet

I'm waiting....

Working Memory and Learning

Marketing iPhone App kidiwiki

LOT HERE

Evaluation of Learning Games

Larry Hedges and CyGaMEs seem to have a notion of what's required to finally put digital learning games over the top.

Tetris inoculates against PTSD

I wonder what else could do that? Kidiwiki and LILA are obvious candidates, or at least hold the potential in some kind of future version.

My New Role Model

I love this guy's advice, not just for living long, but for living well at any age.

New Learning Model

Interesting, but there is one thing missing. A very simple semantic algorithm that can be applied to the assessment of the learner's optimal learning curve.

In other words, LILA.

Much cool stuff about search

Many niche sites and alternatives to the king.

Add LILA to Google Wave

That's all I'm askin...

Please. Nicely.

Reality For Those Stuck in the 10th Rung of the Bardo Thodol

Actually, this is one of the best things I've read about how the world can and should work, micro to macro.

I think this is the greatest step yet toward 'being our own broadcast networks!"

What else do we need, oh yeah, 'studio in a box.'

Then massive free bandwidth...

36K Year-old Representational Art

Conclusion: Pron responsible for development of big modern human brains.

Multiple Intelligence Clearinghouse

Lots of sites, references, etc.

Nice Look at Life Balance

Neural Mechanisms for Confidence, Decision-Making and Certainty

I'm confident in this research...

Brain Development, Learning and LILA

First, there is tremendous scientific evidence regarding multiple intelligences, particularly J.P. Guilford's The Structure of Intellect.
Multiple 'styles' of learning, individualized learning are both indicated in digital game based learning.

Digital Game-Based Bio-Engineering

Indeed, this is an example at the high end of something that could be called game based research, development, engineering.

Howard Gardner - Multiple Intellligences

What, nobody heard of J.P. Guilford, author of The Structure of Intellect?

Design is very important...

I want to have this sensibility infuse LILA.

Central Park Might Like KidWiki

Kidwiki, my new name for an idea I had in 1992 and demo/tested on my 8 month-old, Justin, now almost 18. More about that later, cause I'm thinking it might make a great iPhone App...

Please email me quickly if you want to help develop it!

LILA on Twitter

Ok, I guess this already seems like a no-brainer, like why didn't I think of this before...

If peeps are tweetin, then their words are certainly available for LILA to assess. Everyone's words. The implications are staggering! Even overwhelming for me, which is saying something.

Please someone give me money.

A List of People Trying to Help Improve Learning

Wish I could upload LILA to all of them right now!

In game browser based chat/how does this compare with Playxpert?

I don't understand the difference in the technologies, bu t I can't help but think that Playxpert would be a better choice. Anyone?

Emsense - Brave New World

I need you guys to validate my theoretical application of The Regime of Competence in LILA.

Or, maybe we could partner...

This is too scary real; must read the book...

I have/am experiencing this up close and personal. The whole review makes sense. So, I gotta get some real time at a bookstore, since I have been shunted into the penniless and powerless...for now.

Top 10 MMO's is the answer for the question: What industries are making money right now?

Not a surprise, really. I'm guessing most people would think, well, escape is popular when things are bad. But I think that's totally wrong. What's more meaningful than being able to engage so many of your faculties with so little allocation of resources than MMO's. What's a more efficient use of resources?

And the big ugly secret of education is that MMO's are the best way to learn almost anything. And with tools to expand and assess their use, almost can become everything.

$ For Education Technology - Now is the time!

If only school principals and students had a game that could satisfy the requirements of curriculum testing and be fun and efficient at facilitating learning.

Any ideas?

How 'bout LILA?

The Art of Game Design

Looking at the chart of game elements and their interrelationships, I am envisioning how game play could be optimized (or whether it should or can) for an ARG that evolved organically by inviting game developers to contribute to a massive learning game. Something to think about.

Twitter, LILA and Google (Playxpert)

Ok, so what is going on here? Real time search. Places where people congregate. Gaming. Learning. I'm so close to figuring out an actual game where we could play with these things and assess cognitive faculties on top of it.

My brain is screaming! THIS IS THE NEW SCHOOL!

Anyone?

BUZZ! interview by Guy Kawasaki

Good advice.

Epistemology, Neuroscience and Consciousness - my hobby too!

Hmmmm - These folks ought to help me with LILA!

Lady Jane on ARG's and Web 2.0 for Museums

It all makes perfect sense!

Mr. Bushnell bets on Gaming site

+ more info of import to games

The Edge World Question Center's 2009 What will change the world

Ok, I would like to think that this is the year, esp if Google picks my entry LILA, that Digital Game-Based Learning starts to change the world by offering free ubiquitous exponentially fast learning for everyone.

I'd like to think....

LILA - Google Project 10^100: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZPNbOisn-w
Google 10^100 Responses: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dcsx3hjj_44ddzrdbgs

CHECK IT OUT!

Slouching Towards the Concept of Social Network Gaming...

The Game is the social network. And play is the goal. Everything else will happen easier when that is established as a fundamental condition. The Game is the operating system, platform, browser and application. And when Self Actualization is the core mission, self-estemm, love, security and all our basic physical needs arise as a result.

Here there is a glimmer...

Web 2.0 School

Yay, somebody gets it!

Google's Ideathon 10^100

Here it is, come and get it!

Digital Learning Game Bibliography

Much good info...

Zemanta - contextual suggestions while blogging/writing

Can somebody adapt this and MapMyWord for my evil purposes?

Yammer, Atmosphir and Grockit

Bizz model + (Twitter), make yer own 3d game environment, and massive multiplayer online learning game.

Assessment?!

Yay! Crowdsourcing!

How learning will be developed in the future.

siRNA is a Game!

siRNA is a technology for delivering payloads to the DNA of a cell. The Tobacco Mosaic Virus is stripped inside and loaded with a goodie that does the work with little or no side effects.

Using this technology a single researcher can make a candidate drug in a few weeks.

This is becoming an entirely new disease treatment model.

siRNA could be developed within a Game Based Learning Environment!

Or if you prefer, Game Based Research!

Techdirt: Google's Browser Is A Warning Shot At Windows, Not At Internet Explorer

Techdirt: Google's Browser Is A Warning Shot At Windows, Not At Internet Explorer

Social Network for Mentoring "Team Play"

This looks very appealing.

James Paul Gee on Games as Assessment/learning

yeah

Video Games achieve better performance for neurosurgeons!

Uh, this is pretty remarkable.

Weight Watchers is an RPG!

And there's a bonus reference to Lady Jane!

Kleiner Perkins Invests in Gaming Start-up

Career Opportunities are ones that never knock, knock, knock...

Does Web 2.0 increase our 'Collective Intelligence?'

Not sure if this is an ad for Meetup, but it's point does seem to speak to my main ideas re Digital Game Based Learning. The thing that is needed is assessment. How do we know what we are doing is increasing intelligence? Or not?
So, a measurement that conveys a unit increase in 'intelligence' per unit measure of time for ANY given activity can perhaps be the new holy grail for everything we do. Here is a fabulous way of defining values for the evolution of humanity.

Read that last paragraph again. And again.

Serious Games Play Corporate Nice

More publicity...

Casual Games Awards by Addicting Games

Here's an opportunity.

Compilation of Sites (CiteULike) for Web 2.0 Learning Games

Here is a mother lode, also a load of info.

Games for Social Networking

With a little add-on...

Smarter

EggsBeetsFishoils

SemanticAdvertising

Peer39

Immortality

Immortality

Hakia

SemanticSearch

SIMS

MAKEYOUROWNSIMSGAMES

Finally

Earthmine

ग्रीन्स्क्रीन!

ExerGaming

This is a definite piece of the puzzle...

Crowdsourcing Customer Service

How long has this future been waiting?

Facebook Worth $9B?

Wow! What a list!

These Social Facebook Games Need Assessment

I wonder...

Mobile DGBL Gaming/Advertising

This here gives a glimpse into the desires of mobile users. The question is: How can mobile users engage their inquisitive minds with learning games whose content may include commercial content and really dig it? The next question is: What advertisers want their customers to learn?
There's the market opportunity.

Play the video games of life, researcher advises

Play the video games of life, researcher advises

Game developers hear iPhone's call - SiliconValley.com

Game developers hear iPhone's call - SiliconValley.com

Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing: How to make your startup successful

Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing: How to make your startup successful

IndieCade '08 Submissions Now Open [Indiecade] | Video Game Top 10

IndieCade '08 Submissions Now Open [Indiecade] | Video Game Top 10

Indie MMO Game Developers Conference 2.0

Indie MMO Game Developers Conference 2.0