Educational Games

Going through our archives, we came across this great post from November 25, 2012 on “The Benefits of Growing Your Own: The view from the code monkey cage” that we wanted to share with you in case you missed it the first time around. Last week, I wrote about my […]

Throwback Thursday: The view from the code monkey cage

October 23, 2014 in AnnMaria / Educational Games / Game Progress / Throwback Thursday by AnnMaria De Mars

7GenBanner — Tina Thomas has worked as an accessibility consultant for our parent company, The Julia Group, for many years. Today, she and I were reviewing our game design. She uses JAWS for a screen reader . She also has an iPhone 6 plus that has accessibility software built-in at no extra […]

Games for children who are blind – and everyone ...

October 14, 2014 in AnnMaria / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

Where in the world is 7 Generation Games?

October 10, 2014 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Game Progress / Math tagged US map of states / Who is playing our games by admin

I started learning how to program just a few years ago. While learning how to code, I kept little mind other than to use whatever methods suited my style best. I wasn’t overly concerned with anyone else being able to decipher the projects that I was working on, other than […]

Working Together

October 8, 2014 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Math tagged 7 Generation Games / blog / Intern / Internship by Gonzalo

Welcome to a revolution in educational video gaming!

September 19, 2014 in 7GenGames / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games tagged Adventure Gaming / Fish Lake / Math / Native American History by admin

7 Generation Games Blog — Now that our blogging intern, Diana J, has left us and gone back to school, Marisol Castillo Schultz, our Senior Research Associate will be taking a turn filling in on the blogosphere. Although our current games are focused on Native American culture, Marisol has been advocating for a while now […]

Why a math game for ESL students is a great ...

September 9, 2014 in 7GenGames / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

Become part of a revolution in educational gaming!

August 18, 2014 in 7GenGames / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games / Uncategorized by admin

If this is your first visit to our website, thank you for taking the time to read our blog and let us introduce ourselves. We are a company that combines math, Native American history and adventure gaming into our video games. The video clip below demonstrates the (awesome) video games that […]

How does 7 Generation Games differ from other companies?

July 23, 2014 in 7GenGames / Cultural content / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games / Math tagged 7 Generation Games / Adventure Gaming / Math / Native American History by admin

by Dr. Erich Longie, Lead Cultural Consultant While demonstrating our games for teachers, parents and students at the Tribal Disability Conference at Turtle Mountain this week, I was thinking about how learning about math together with Dakota culture makes perfect sense. Native Americans are one of the two involuntary minorities in […]

Why Learning about Math and Dakota Culture Makes Perfect Sense

July 11, 2014 in 7GenGames / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

The last post was hopefully a titillating introduction to Dr. AnnMaria De Mars, Dr. Yolanda Venegas, and Marisol Castillo’s research. More on their investigation of what makes a good game here! They found that there are certain features that make particular games more effective than others, a couple of which are proudly […]

Are they really learning? How educational are educational games continued.

July 3, 2014 in 7GenGames / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games by admin

What makes a game educational? Dr. AnnMaria De Mars, Dr. Yolanda Venegas, and Marisol Castillo got together to investigate whether popular games are actually helping children to learn and boost scholastic achievement, as well as what it is about these games that makes them either effective or ineffective. To start, […]

Are they really learning? How educational are educational games?

July 3, 2014 in 7GenGames / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games / Game Progress by admin

In my last post, I talked about making educational games that are educational. When game designers and programmers create math games, they often have little idea of what math children are learning in a given grade, in what order, nor what types of hints to provide. In short, unsurprisingly, the […]

Making Educational Games That Are Games

July 2, 2014 in 7GenGames / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

Games That Make You Smarter