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It is International Women’s Day, so if you’re a woman congrats to you! If you’re a man, then congrats to you too, because you’re blessed with the presence of women every day! Despite how great it is to be a woman, it does come with its challenges, especially when you’re […]

Woman-Led Companies That Are Making The World Smarter

March 8, 2017 in 7GenGames / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games / Women in Tech tagged international women's day by Victoria Moll-Ramírez

dreamcatcher — You might think teaching at a tribal college wouldn’t prepare you for running a start-up. You’d be wrong. Can you make a million dollar game for $100,000? No? Me, neither. No one can. Some angel investors have wanted to see that before they were willing to invest. (Not OUR investors […]

How a Tribal College Helped Me Make Video Games

March 6, 2017 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM by AnnMaria De Mars

It is Week 3 of our Internet Field Trip Fridays! We are also one week closer to Spring. But what exactly does that mean? Think about it, the first day of winter was Dec. 21st. The first day of spring is March 20th. Here’s your winter breakdown: 10 days in […]

Internet Field Trip Fridays: An Overview on Teaching Fractions

February 24, 2017 in 7GenGames / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Resources / Math by Victoria Moll-Ramírez

It’s early in the morning when my coworker Diana and I met up at her house to discuss our strategy. Why are we meeting early in the morning to discuss a strategy? Well, it’s going to be my first time stepping into a classroom where I won’t be a student! […]

Developer Diary: Back To School

February 23, 2017 in 7GenGames / Code Talk / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games / Start-up Diaries tagged 7 Generation Games / Educational Games by Jose Sotelo

Here’s one of the things that separate successful startups from people who have good ideas: Execution. In other words, it’s easy to be a “big picture” visionary, it’s doing the million little details that is the hard part. We met on our AzTech Games series earlier this week. Going over […]

Startup Success: Why Little Details Matter As Much As Big ...

February 17, 2017 in 7GenGames / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games / Start-up Diaries / Women in Tech by Maria Burns Ortiz

Kid playing making camp — You are supposed to individualize instruction. We all know it. In some cases, when students have special needs, we are legally required to do it, have meetings about it. Yet, it’s difficult when you have 40 students in a class. Or maybe you only have 20 students but one is […]

Individualizing instruction: Four more ways to use 7 Generation Games

February 15, 2017 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games / Educational Resources by AnnMaria De Mars

kids in middle school — Often, I get asked how our games can be used in schools. Even more often, I have the opportunity to go into schools and see how they are being used, which is fascinating to me because teachers frequently have uses that had not occurred to me when the games were […]

A Baker’s Dozen of Ways to Use 7 Generation Games ...

February 14, 2017 in AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games / Educational Resources by AnnMaria De Mars

box with 1/4 full of frogs — I know that our games help students indirectly in that teachers use the game as an incentive for students to study: “All right, boys and girls, how many of you are on level 4 of Spirit Lake? Well, when you get to level 4, you’re going to need to divide. […]

Why (and how) our games improve math scores

February 14, 2017 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games / Educational Resources by AnnMaria De Mars

Since we’ve already told you about some awesome resources when it comes to the Dakota (Sioux) people we figured we’d let you know about some awesome Ojibwe (Chippewa) resources also! The Ojibwe are featured in our games Fish Lake, Making Camp and Forgotten Trail so the culture is a big part of 7 […]

Awesome Resources for Teachers: Ojibwe (Chippewa)

February 7, 2017 in Cultural content / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Resources by Victoria Moll-Ramírez

page from adult coloring book — In the book, “The smartest kids in the world”, there is a part where a high school student from Finland on an exchange program in the U.S. says, Not another poster! The student was frustrated that so much of high school consisted of coloring. Now, I’m not categorically opposed to […]

Because I hate coloring : Free games for teachers

February 1, 2017 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games / Educational Resources by AnnMaria De Mars

Plants in Belize — Three main lessons I learned from going to Belize: 1. If you want to go some place, just GO! Quit waiting for a day when you will come into the office and say, “My work here is done.” Just go. 2. You can get what you need done almost anywhere, […]

What I Learned in Belize: Part 1

January 30, 2017 in AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM by AnnMaria De Mars

Hello World! My name is Cyborg Ean (OK, not really, but it’s what my former students call me), and I’m the newest addition to the 7 Generation Games team as a software development intern. When I’m not programming our games or consuming the exquisite novelty that is Thai food, I’m […]

Introducing Hour of Code

January 23, 2017 in 7GenGames / Code Talk / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Resources / Tech Tips tagged 7 Generation Games / Code Talk / STEM / Tech Tips / twitch tv by Ean Moore