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Yearly Archives: 2026

Level up your teaching using our game builder and AI tools to clone your classroom, your students’ favorite teacher (hopefully yourself!), and anything else you think will drive student engagement. Personalizing your games makes your students feel like the experience was built just for them. It’s also a great way […]

Boosting Student Engagement: Put Yourself in the Game!

June 4, 2026 in Educational Games by Julia De Mars

student doing a workbook looking bored — No matter how great of a teacher you are, whether you teach third-grade or the third quarter of Calculus, you are going to have days when you think it's going to require a miracle for any learning to take place. Here is an idea that worked for me.

How learning can still happen on the crazy days

June 3, 2026 in Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

Splash Screen with Powwow Stands on green star quilt background — Absolutely by far the number one request we get at 7 Generation Games is for games for lower levels of mathematics, "Couldn't you do something with addition or subtraction?" So, I made Powwow Stands

Powwow Stands: Finally a game for younger students

April 13, 2026 in Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

7 Gen Blocks Game Builder Splash block screen — TL; DR; To survive long-term, your company needs to make a profit. The work you are doing that pays money today is not developing a new product you aren't selling yet. So, there is a trade-off and innovation takes longer but your company is more likely to survive. I have a lot more to say but I need to get back to development. If you want to meet me in person, check out the bottom of this post.

A no-code educational game builder using YOUR intelligence: Why it ...

February 28, 2026 in 7Gen Blocks / 7GenGames / Game Design by AnnMaria De Mars

Do multiplication word problems hurt your brain? — Problem-solving strategies give students a mechanism for identifying elements of a problem, determining a course of action, and checking the answer. However, sometimes students don’t have a wide enough array of strategies and we can't assume they'll discover these on their own. Fortunately, we have videos, games and lessons to help you teach a variety of strategies.

Problem-solving strategies have to be taught

February 18, 2026 in Educational Games / Mathematics / multiplication by AnnMaria De Mars

Two young girls in a bedroom, one looks angry — I stick by what I said in my last post that I am skeptical of claims that AI is making hordes of people 5x developers. If that is the case, you probably sucked in the first place. Actually, that might be exactly it, because as I think of the areas that AI has helped me immensely, these are mostly in which I am not very good or knowledgable.

How AI makes me a 1.15x developer

January 2, 2026 in Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars