This category is for posts written by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars.
I keep reading that AI enables developers to work 30% ! 50%! 100%! faster. AI can replace junior developers! So far, I have found none of this to be true -until this weekend.
My granddaughter calls me "hilarifying" - a combination of hilarious and terrifying. Whether or not you backed us on Kickstarter years ago, you probably found our Family Textbook hilarifying. In this blog post I hid on our site because it is not sufficiently professional, try to guess who said what.
Whether you want the world to learn about the importance of turtles, cultural differences in bead work design or how to compute quartiles of temperature readings, you can make a game for it.
Teaching with Primary Sources Network is a site we love because of the practical lessons, discussion and wealth of topics. It's only flaw is with SO much content you sometimes can get lost.
In a recent conversation it became clear to me that I am not very good at explaining how 7 Generation Games is a profitable and growing business. That probably was made worse by the fact that we are re-releasing two of our apps using different technology to be able to […]
When you have six times as many people using your products you need to increase your staff, and quickly. The end result is more features, more support - but less sleep for us while we scale up.
I've long thought that the true measure of how successful a person has been in life is how much people will miss them after they are gone. Willie was a great success, as a person and a friend. All of us at 7 Generation Games will miss him very much but I know I will miss him the most.
As CEO of 7 Generation Games, I am proud and humbled to be able to announce that we have received funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to create a new learning platform, specifically aimed at helping meet the needs of Indigenous students and the educators working to serve these communities.
Time Spent Learning Your Culture is of the Essence Several years ago, Dr. Erich Longie and I participated in an analysis of the National Indian Education Study database where we found that the more native youth learned their culture and language in school, the worse their math scores. This finding […]
I was super-excited to have had the chance to speak at Minot State University on how we use Native American culture to teach math. In analyzing our data, one key issue we found was PERSEVERANCE. That is, students simply give up when it gets the least bit hard. It wasn’t […]
Finding Success in Data-Driven Entrepreneurship with Dr. AnnMaria De Mars – President Data Futurology Podcast host Felipe Flores catches up with our president, Dr. AnnMaria De Mars! Podcast Listen now | Duration 48:02 | Recorded on June 16, 2020 Life experiences, judo principles, and pure grit. “In this episode,” Flores […]