Co-design Games to Teach with Primary Sources from Indigenous and Rural History, starting with a game about Native American Veterans
Yearly Archives: 2024
Since we began 7 Generation Games nine years ago, I swear, half of the people I have met, when they hear I make games, say to me, "Hey, I have an idea for a video game." That's why we started working on 7 Gen Blocks ...
How 7 Gen Blocks is WordPress for Educational Games
At 7 Generation Games, we always like sharing resources that we love. This week we’d like to share a site we love, which is the Minnesota Agriculture in the Classroom site. At first glance, it may not appear there is much here, but appearances are deceiving. Virtual Field Trips Plus […]
Minnesota Ag in the Classroom: Hidden Gems
You may not know that, before I founded or co-founded four companies and a non-profit foundation, I was the first American to win the world judo championships. I also taught Entrepreneurship at California Indian Nations College. At first glance, it might appear that judo and entrepreneurship don’t have all that […]
Entrepreneurship Advice from a World Judo Champion
PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES, ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS AND FEDERAL AGENCY REPORTS De Mars, A., Taken Alive, J., Ortiz, M., et al. (2022). Educators’ Perspectives on Factors Impacting STEM Achievement in Rural Indigenous Student- Serving Schools. The Rural Educator, 43(1), 24-36. https://doi.org/10.35608/ruraled.v43i1.1207 De Mars, A. (2021). Growing Math: Accessible, Cross-Curricular Education in Food and Agricultural […]
The Data Behind 7 Generation Games and 7 Gen Blocks
I’m sure you may have heard of our Making Camp game series, in fact I’m certain because it happens to be our most popular game series. Now Making Camp Ojibwe, the one that started it all, has gone through some updates. With Making Camp Ojibwe being one of the very […]
Long Time Coming: Making Camp Ojibwe Updated!
AnnMaria will be at BUILDFest LA 2024! BUILDFest LA is an event put on by BUILD.org, which is a nonprofit organization that empowers youths with entrepreneurship in order to have them become the CEOs of their own lives. BUILDFest is an event that will celebrate the work that BUILD.org has […]
AnnMaria Will Be At BUILDFest LA 2024!
We’ve been very busy at 7 Generation Games! We’ve been getting ready for new projects, working on making updates to our games, and now a new game release. The latest addition to our Disaster Deduction Detectives series is available. DDD Academy Agent Emilia is looking for a new recruit and […]
So Many Decisions…Division Decisions!
If you’ve played the beta version of Making Camp Navajo, and even if you haven’t, then we have great news. Making Camp Navajo went through a lot of huge changes and is now out of beta. Say hello to Making Camp Navajo 1.0! One of the major changes that Making […]
Making Camp Navajo 1.0!
TL; DR - in the Making Camp Navajo update, we made it a lot less likely that students would need to call over the teacher for help.
Thinking of teachers (& students): Making Camp Navajo Out of ...
Creating opportunities through breaking down barriers in educational game development We started 7 Generation Games because we believed kids deserved better. We built better learning games and got better results: better academic outcomes, better engagement and better representation (both games and classroom curriculum). Over time, our mission has stayed the […]
No code, no problem: 7 Gen Blocks EDU
Algebra allows you to go past memorizing answers to specific problems to solve TYPES of problems. 7 Gen Blocks lets you create types of problems, games or instruction with minimal coding.