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.