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Cinco de Mayo commemorates the day the Mexican army won the 1862 Battle of Puebla against the French. Counter to popular belief, Cinco de Mayo tends to be a bigger deal in America than it is in Mexico. In America, the holiday has become a day long celebration of Mexican […]

Cinco de Mayo Teacher Resource Videos

May 5, 2021 in 7GenGames / Cultural content tagged Cinco de Mayo by Hannah Wren

Let’s face it, some kids can be mean. We all remember that one guy or girl who bullied us in school from our own experiences. Ideally, school should be a safe learning place for students that they are excited to return every day. Despite the many anti-bullying programs offered to […]

5 Tips for Dealing with Bullying

October 23, 2020 in 7GenGames / blogposts / Newsletter tagged Advice / bullying / Educational Games / Life Advice / teachers by Hannah Wren

A while back, AnnMaria opened up the discussion for unpaid interns. On the other hand, Maria is set on interns being paid because she feels that having unpaid interns is taking advantage of young people who are desperate for work experience. But AnnMaria is open to the idea of unpaid […]

Why Paying Interns is Worth It

June 30, 2020 in Start-up Diaries tagged 7 Generation Games / interns by Hannah Wren

Did you know that children who know a second language do better in school, have stronger cognitive abilities, and have a higher chance of getting employed? Those are just a few of the benefits of being bilingual. Even if you’re not a kid anymore, it is never too late to […]

Learn Spanish Today with Making Camp: Bilingual

February 7, 2020 in Cultural content / Educational Games / Game Progress tagged Bilingual / Learn Spanish / Making Camp by Hannah Wren

Looking through our blog archives, I came across a post about marketing by AnnMaria on how companies market their products to be something that they are not because they “sell the sizzle, not the steak.” This reminded me of my high school prom dress. I found a dress online that […]

Who can you trust in marketing? What edtech games and ...

June 7, 2018 in 7GenGames tagged Educational Games / Marketing by Hannah Wren

My mom once told me that life is just a series of decisions. Every day we are faced with making new decisions- to apply for this job, to confront your friend about something that has been bothering you, to eat the last slice of cake. While there were many times […]

Smartest Decisions I Made in College

June 5, 2018 in Start-up Diaries tagged college / decisions / education / school by Hannah Wren

If you’ve been reading AnnMaria’s “Start-up Diaries, Santiago edition” blogs or if you follow us on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram, you know that AnnMaria has been in Chile the last couple of months marketing and adapting our games to a Latin American audience for Start-up Chile. One of her and our […]

Help Us Name Our New Chilean Game!

May 24, 2018 in 7GenGames tagged chile / Chilean game / start-up Chile by Hannah Wren

Teaching Native American culture, but don’t know where to start? One feature that makes our games unique is their incorporation of Native American history. We know that there aren’t many classroom resources available for teaching Native American culture and we wanted to help fix that problem. In fact, many of […]

Three Videos We Love that Teach Dakota Culture

May 22, 2018 in 7GenGames tagged Dakota / Native American culture / videos by Hannah Wren

Angie from Forgotten Trail in woods at night — Looking back at my time at UCLA, one experience that stands out is an education course I took where I developed curriculum for teaching incarcerated youth of color language arts, then implemented my lesson plans with the young men at BJN Juvenile Hall. (Incarcerated youth are disproportionally minority youths.) My […]

Teaching Incarcerated Youth Of Color – And What They Taught ...

May 17, 2018 in 7GenGames / Education: Innovation and STEM tagged EdTech / Incarcerated Youth by Hannah Wren

Long division continuously tends to be an area students struggle in the most. While teachers could probably spend the entire year going over division in their classroom, they are often forced to move on to the next lesson sooner than many students need. When there is so much to teach […]

Three Videos we Love that Teach Long Division

May 17, 2018 in 7GenGames tagged long division / videos by Hannah Wren

Understanding when two fractions are equivalent is a third grade Common Core standard. Even if you aren’t teaching in a Common Core school district, you probably still cover a similar lesson on fractions in your classroom. If your students are learning how to determine if two fractions are equivalent for […]

Three Videos We Love that Teach Equivalent Fractions

May 15, 2018 in 7GenGames tagged fractions / Math / Teacher Resources / vidoes by Hannah Wren

Last week, I left my Metadata class feeling totally lost. If being the only undergraduate student in my first graduate class isn’t intimidating enough, we were programming using XSLT-a skill I was just learning for the first time. Fast forward to last night’s class, and I was confidently helping the […]

YouTube: Home of Funny Cats, Un-boxing Videos and, Yes, Quality ...

May 8, 2018 in 7GenGames tagged videos / YouTube by Hannah Wren