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teachers — In our developers’ meeting last week, Dave asked why we were using video to teach math concepts when research shows that’s the least effective method of learning. Someone else asked a very similar question this week. I’ve heard hundreds of times that “research shows” lecturing is a terrible way to […]

Things We Know That Are Not So: Lectures Don’t Suck ...

December 20, 2015 in Uncategorized by AnnMaria De Mars

We’d like you to be part of our development. We really would. Even when it doesn’t seem like it at the moment. There’s a reason that we started putting our game developers’ meetings on line . We started a “tourist visa program” for people to be able to drop in as […]

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December 18, 2015 in AnnMaria / Dog food / Educational Games / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

Happy “May The Force Be With You” Freebie Friday! Theaters and malls will be packed this weekend, with people either rushing to see the new Star Wars movie and/or finishing up their holiday shopping. Before you get sucked into that madness, ease your way into the weekend by learning how […]

Freebie Friday: Learning Dakota Vocabulary

December 18, 2015 in 7GenGames / Freebie Friday tagged Dakota / Dakota-Sioux / Freebie Friday / Native American Resource by Erick Salomon

At the Ed Games Expo last week, one of the attendees who stopped by to see our games was asking me about the impact our SBIR award had on 7 Generation Games. (SBIR stands for Small Business Innovation and Research and are grants given by various federal agencies to support […]

Startups Take Money: How SBIR Funding Helped Make 7 Generation ...

December 18, 2015 in 7GenGames / Education: Innovation and STEM / Start-up Diaries / Women in Tech by Maria Burns Ortiz

Going through our archives, we came across this great post from August 11, 2013 “Don’t Tell Me I Can’t: From World Judo Champion to Start-Up Grandmother” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. I was asked to write a chapter for the book, Real Talk, […]

Throwback Thursday: Don’t Tell Me I Can’t – From World ...

December 17, 2015 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged AnnMaria De Mars / Judo / Start-Up / Throwback Thursday by Erick Salomon

Ronda running — We had our weekly game developers’ meeting yesterday and were extremely lucky to have a stellar cast of visitors drop in; best-selling author Derek Landy, star programmer Dave Taylor and our favorite Pokemon moderator of all time, Ronda Rousey. Prior to the meeting, our marketing staff had requested, “Since this […]

It’s an Early Adopter Discount, Not a Late Majority Discount

December 17, 2015 in AnnMaria / Educational Games / Game Progress by AnnMaria De Mars

Annie Hammond offers insight from an educator’s perspective on educational gaming. I recently saw a cartoon on social media that read, “I used to tell people I was a teacher. Now I prefer the title Data Collection and Management Specialist. It’s much more accurate.” This could not be closer to […]

A Teacher’s Point of View: That’s Mrs. Data Collection and ...

December 16, 2015 in 7GenGames / Newsletter tagged A Teacher's Point of View / Annie Hammond / Aztech / Data Collection / Holidays / newsletter by Erick Salomon

Ever wonder what goes into making video games? Here’s your chance to find out. 7 Generation Games is opening up one of its game development meetings on December 16,2015 at 12:30 pm Pacific Standard Time, so that you can come check out what goes into creating virtual worlds, making ideas a […]