5 How do we cover seven different topics in one game? We've started co-designing our next game with teachers and the challenge has been to combine multiple interests and perspectives.
Yearly Archives: 2024
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Starting with the number 1 question we get most often Although most participants are classroom teachers you do NOT have to be a teacher to participate. We welcome museum staff, culture teachers, paraprofessionals, students, community educators. If you teach or are wanting to teach, you do not have to be […]
Design Learning Games with 114 students, 18 teachers & me!
Co-designing Games to Teach Indigenous History with Primary Sources
If you can't make it to NCSS or you did make it but we ran out of handouts, here are the links to all of the things.
Did you meet 7 Generation Games at NCSS?
What we have for elementary and social studies teachers, coming up and ready right now
Here’s some love for elementary and social studies teachers
Money Smart Games for Middle/ High School are bad games - here's why I recommend them
Financial Literacy for middle and high school students
Adobe Firefly, when combined with 7 Gen Blocks, makes it possible to make educational games in a fraction of the time.
Firefly: One of two great uses for AI
School is getting back under way and maybe you realize you need another lesson or two for this week. Because we have subscribers who are both middle school and elementary teachers, and some who teach at schools that are K-8, each week I'll include a lesson, or maybe a whole unit, for middle school and another for elementary school.
Lessons of the Week: News You Can Use
With the election coming up, I thought it would be a good idea to create an app to teach about the historical barriers to voting for African-Americans and encourage people to vote. Here is how I made it in 2 days using 7 Gen Blocks
Making an app in two days, with 7 Gen Blocks
So, your students are playing Forgotten Trail, learning math, Ojibwe history, geography and having fun. You rock & you're cool because you have the cheat codes to win the game.
Teacher Cheat Sheet for Forgotten Trail – Level 2
Do you really want to help me as a teacher? Can you give me more time? Yes. Here is how 7 Generation Games can help you in the first weeks of school with engaging standards-aligned games and assignments, with built-in differentiated instruction.
Making Your First Weeks of School Easier
Study Purpose: Design and test an app to help people with mental health issues get services. In this study, participants will: During a private, 60-minute session, use a mobile phone app to enter data on current mood, symptoms and needs and get recommendation for services. These data will be recorded […]
Test a Mobile Application for Tribal Mental Health Services
Study Purpose: Design and test an app to help people with mental health issues get services. In this study, participants will: Participate in a 60-minute focus group with four other people and an interviewer. Participants will be asked questions about: Your feedback on proposed characters, design and features for a […]