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Yearly Archives: 2017

Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from December 20, 2014 “1 and 1/2 secrets of Success” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. Three different people asked me this week what was the secret to […]

Throwback Thursday: 1 and 1/2 secrets of Success

November 16, 2017 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged 7 Generation Games / AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday by Diana Sanchez

snowy road — During the past few days, I had the opportunity to visit a couple of classrooms on and near the Spirit Lake Dakota Nation and observe their amazing students. We had a report that students were completing the games in half an hour. That didn’t seem possible. We’d had two professional […]

The Amazing Students from Spirit Lake

November 11, 2017 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

It’s time for another Freebie Friday! Today’s freebie is from our game Making Camp. The freebie is a video on math terms. The video goes through the definitions of different terms that you should know when it comes to addition, subtraction, and multiplication. The video also gives you examples of […]

Freebie Friday: Making Camp – Math Terms

November 10, 2017 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday tagged 7 Generation Games / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday by Diana Sanchez

Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from November 6, 2014 “Start-up reality: Silicon Snowbanks” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. Contrary to appearances, this is not an abandoned blog. For the past couple of […]

Throwback Thursday: Start-up reality: Silicon Snowbanks

November 9, 2017 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged 7 Generation Games / AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday by Diana Sanchez

You might have thought the 2017 election season was over after yesterday – you’d be wrong. Well, kind of. We at 7 Generation Games need your vote. If you’re reading this post and thinking, “Where do I go vote?” the answer is right here. (And you can go back and […]

Vote 7 Generation Games into the Global Entrepreneurship Summit Semifinals!

November 9, 2017 in 7GenGames / Start-up Diaries by Maria Burns Ortiz

Hello everyone, it’s Friday and that means that it’s time for the Freebie Friday. Today’s freebie is from our game Spirit Lake and it’s a video on a problem solving tip. The problem solving tip is to start at the end of the math word problem. Often, the problem that […]

Freebie Friday – Problem Solving Tip: Start at the End

November 3, 2017 in 7GenGames / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games / Freebie Friday tagged 7 Generation Games / Educational Games / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday by Diana Sanchez

Our company is doing a software design project with students from New Earth school (keep reading to find why this is extraordinary). The students complete a series of assignments to help us do a revision of one of our games. They start by meeting with one of our team members […]

And now for some good news: Software Design with New ...

November 3, 2017 in AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games / New earth by AnnMaria De Mars

Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from January 17, 2017 “It doesn’t matter what you do (and that’s a good thing)” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. I have several ideas for blog posts […]

Throwback Thursday: It doesn’t matter what you do (and that’s ...

November 2, 2017 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged 7 Generation Games / AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday by Diana Sanchez

boots — We’ve all had them – those teachers who really need to take their lesson plans, retire and go home. They’re teaching from the same set of yellowed lecture notes they wrote in 1974. I never want to be one of those teachers, so, on a regular basis, I try to […]

Putting Myself in the Students’ Shoes

November 1, 2017 in AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM by AnnMaria De Mars

checkbook — At age 15, I made a fake ID that said I was 18, left home, got a job and a checking account. That was over 40 years ago and it is probably harder to do in this age of computers when people can check up on you more easily. On […]

Someone Needs to Be Teaching This

October 29, 2017 in AnnMaria by AnnMaria De Mars

It’s the end of another week and that means that it’s time for the Freebie Friday! Today’s freebie is related to our game Fish Lake and it’s a game on fractions. This is a link we like and it’s called the FractOne Math Game. Since our game Fish Lake teaches […]

Freebie Friday – FractOne: Math Game

October 27, 2017 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday tagged 7 Generation Games / Educational Games / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday by Diana Sanchez

Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from December 16, 2016 “What comes after you fixed all the bugs?” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. I’ve hardly blogged, answered emails or talked to anyone these […]

Throwback Thursday: What comes after you fixed all the bugs?

October 26, 2017 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged 7 Generation Games / AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday by Diana Sanchez