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Making Camp bilingual — With Hispanic Heritage Month here, we wanted to take a minute to tell you about the work we’re doing to improve education for Latino students, including the nearly 4 million Spanish-speaking English-language learners in U.S. schools today. One of the ways we’re doing that is through our English/Spanish bilingual games. […]

Twice the Languages, Twice the Learning

September 21, 2020 in 7GenGames / Educational Games tagged 7 Generation Games / Educational Games by Marisol Schultz

robots loose in the Time Travel Academy — In my last post, I got most of the Killer Robots game laid out. I did the following: Decided on a story line Got the artwork Created the first screen, the classroom Wrote a function to get the robots to move and another function to get the robots to turn […]

Game design steps with killer robots

September 20, 2020 in Code Talk / Game Design tagged Game Design by AnnMaria De Mars

Educators, the Social Studies Innovation Network has a collection of new instructional resources and tools ready for the 2020-21 school year!

Social Studies Innovation Network Resources

September 9, 2020 in 7GenGames / Bilingual Education / Conferences / Educational Games / Educational Resources / Newsletter / Remote Education / rural education / Teachers / UnConference tagged Distance Learning / Educational Games / Educational Resources / history / Online Learning / social studies / Teacher Resources by Christy Hanson

Math Innovation Network is offering tools and games to educators. Their engaging math tools are ready for in-person, hybrid, or fully remote instruction.

Ready Now Math Distance-Learning Resources

September 1, 2020 in 7GenGames / Bilingual Education / Conferences / Educational Games / Educational Resources / Math / Mathematics / Newsletter / Remote Education / rural education / Statistics Education / Teachers / UnConference tagged Educational Games / Educational Resources / Teacher Resources by Christy Hanson

Why should we memorize math? I’m astounded that some people consider memorization a universal evil because “We have the internet.” Multiplication tables are searchable in my notes or my device, but are in frequent use. Optimizing learning by memorizing the basics is time and energy well-spent for the long haul. […]

The Case for Memorization

August 28, 2020 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Mathematics / problem-solving / Remote Education tagged Making Camp / Making Camp Bilingual / Memory Match Game by AnnMaria De Mars

With some schools districts going back to school lately, the “new normal” seems increasingly latent. However, this so-called “new normal” as its name implies, comes to replace many aspects of our daily pre-pandemic lives. In this sense, it is necessary to have a “new school at school.” This new school […]

The new normal at school

August 20, 2020 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Newsletter / Remote Education tagged homeschool / learning at home by Daniel Mondaca

by pch.vector — IEP meetings can expect some delays in areas experiencing the digital divide, which can impact remote conferences. Students with IEP services, in particular, are vulnerable to regression in academic skills.

Planning for the IEP Meeting

August 18, 2020 in 7GenGames / Educational Resources / Remote Education / rural education / Special Education by Irma Barcena

Graphic of students in front of giant computer — Last week 7 Generation Games led Level Up Your Lessons, our webinar for educators grappling with limited resources amid the Covid-19 pandemic. If you didn’t have a chance to attend, we posted them on our business channel 7GenGamesTV to peruse. We’re not taking these down any time soon, so explore, […]

LEVEL UP Webinar Videos

August 10, 2020 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Webinar by Christy Hanson

Making Camp Math Games — How do students use Chromebooks when they don't have Internet? We've made educational math apps that run offline

Online Learning Without Internet

August 7, 2020 in 7GenGames / Division / division / Educational Games / Educational Resources / Math / Mathematics / multiplication tagged Bilingual / Bilingual Games / Spanish by AnnMaria De Mars

Level Up Your Lessons! Thank you for visiting us at the BETA Showcase and Games for Change. Teachers, remember to register and check us out on August 4 in our webinar Level Up Your Lessons! 7 Generation Games will help you level up your remote lessons in preparation for the […]

July ’20 – Game Updates

July 27, 2020 in 7GenGames / Game Progress by Christy Hanson

Kids in game design course — Today, after a splendid time developing games, the 7 Generation Games summer game design team, taught by Dr. De Mars and Maria Burns Ortiz, was ready to share their design project developed over the course of two weeks: the dogcatcher game! The students planned for a 2D kingdom of dogs […]

Game Design Class Pt. 5: Final Project

July 24, 2020 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Game Design by Christy Hanson

Activities I did growing up kept me involved in my studies and community. As a Girl Scout, I was a cookie entrepreneur and we sold the popular cookies everyone wanted. Samoas, Thin Mints, you name it! But in order to sell these delicious treats, Girl Scouts had to know how […]

Tasty Math: The Cookie Entrepreneur

July 24, 2020 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Newsletter tagged Making Camp by Irma Barcena