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Yearly Archives: 2017

penguin — I remember in 2nd grade, I made my own multiplication flashcards. I don’t remember exactly how long it took me, but it felt like forever. Even though it felt like a waste of time and possibly the end of the world, I am so glad my teacher assigned it to […]

Confessions of A Dramatic 6 Year Old

June 22, 2017 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Math by Irma Barcena

Memory game — We made a game where you can buy stuff with math problems. Yes, we are awesome. Today’s game is a memory card game, part of our game Making Camp! Ahhhhh I know what you’re thinking….ANOTHER memory card game. I remember playing the memory card game with my older brother, who […]

Memory Game Brings Back Memories

June 21, 2017 in Educational Games / Educational Resources by Irma Barcena

Child in office — That teacher-friend of yours, Ms. Robinson, I hate her! This comment came from a very nice woman who had a child in my friend’s class, and she sounded like she meant it, too. Let’s call her Diana, because that wasn’t her name . I said, Come on, you don’t mean […]

That Parent or Teacher You Can’t Stand, Yeah, That’s Culture

June 21, 2017 in AnnMaria / Cultural content by AnnMaria De Mars

kid waving — It was a no-brainer, really. Everyone knows that kids lose ground over the summer and kids from disadvantaged homes lose the most. So, why not put our technical skills to work and DO something about it? Two years ago, concerned about the “summer slide”, we came up with this idea […]

Welcome to Camp Don’t Get Dumber Over the Summer

June 20, 2017 in 7GenGames / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

Idioms can be tough to explain. I mean, you’re basically saying, “This combination of words means something totally different than what the actual words mean.” As we’ve built out language arts elements in both our upcoming Making Camp Premium and AzTech apps, we asked teachers what they thought we should […]

Make Your Own Idiom Book

June 20, 2017 in Educational Resources by Irma Barcena

Irma on a bike using VR — When I was 7 years old, my forte was Yui-Gi-Oh. Does that not sound familiar? It’s a fictional Japanese gaming cartoon that has existed since the 1990s and I was obsessed how a card can turn into a creature. This show stole my early Saturday mornings and I began collecting […]

E3-Dreams Do Come True

June 18, 2017 in Start-up Diaries by Irma Barcena

A year ago, I traveled to Flagstaff to attend the Native Innovation EdTech conference. To be honest, heading out there, I didn’t know what to expect, but the event certainly seemed to align completely with our company mission. It was an incredible conference – where we debuted Making Camp, which […]

Creating an Innovative Game at Native Innovation

June 17, 2017 in 7GenGames / Cultural content / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games by Maria Burns Ortiz

It’s the end of another week and that means that it’s time for the Freebie Friday. Today’s freebie is from “AzTech Games”. The freebie is clip art of codices featured in the game. The codices are Mayan and are an important part of the plot of the game. You can […]

Freebie Friday: AzTech Games – Clip art

June 16, 2017 in 7GenGames / Freebie Friday tagged 7 Generation Games / Freebie Friday by Diana Sanchez

Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from December 13, 2015 “Winners Know When to Quit“ that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. Twice in the last week, I’ve had people say to me, expecting agreement, […]

Throwback Thursday: Winners Know When to Quit

June 15, 2017 in AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged 7 Generation Games / AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday by Diana Sanchez

In yesterday’s post, I ended with Jose and Gonzalo sharing the VR and AR presentations. After their presentation we had a short 15 minute break. During this break I made small talk with whoever wasn’t on social media or getting refreshments. Again, many kids wanted to work in gaming and […]

Wait- We’re supposed to work for ourselves? Not the money?

June 14, 2017 in 7GenGames / Start-up Diaries by Irma Barcena

children in trouble — This is the latest in our series on behavior problems. You can find the previous post here and if you want to start at the beginning, go here. The previous post focused a bit more on children with disabilities, with advice about picture boards and sign language. However, many strategies […]

3 MORE STRATEGIES FOR REDUCING BEHAVIOR PROBLEMS

June 14, 2017 in AnnMaria / Educational Resources by AnnMaria De Mars

Kid playing making camp — Today, I saw the umpteenth tweet that linked to another article with a variation of a “Getting Girls to Like Math” post, and for the love of God, enough is enough. I am so tired of hearing how girls don’t like math. Or how they don’t gravitate toward it. Or don’t […]

Stop Telling Girls They Don’t Like Math

June 14, 2017 in Education: Innovation and STEM / Parenting Like I Know What I'm Doing by Maria Burns Ortiz