Educational Games

Julia doing a science experiment — You know that saying, “When life hands you lemons, make lemonade” Well, my week has been something like that. I was showing our Spirit Lake demo at a school and realized that it HAD NOT BEEN UPDATED IN THREE YEARS !! The demo was supposed to look like this: … […]

Making Software Design from Lemons (or something like that)

9 Oct, 2017 in AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from October 14, 2016 “Statistics save the world” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. […]

Throwback Thursday: Statistics save the world

5 Oct, 2017 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Throwback Thursday tagged 7 Generation Games / Educational Games / Throwback Thursday by Diana Sanchez

Making Camp bilingual — With Hispanic Heritage Month here, we wanted to take a minute to tell you about the work we’re doing to improve education for Latino students, including the nearly 4 million Spanish-speaking English-language learners in U.S. schools today. One of the ways we’re doing that is through our English/Spanish bilingual games. […]

Twice the Languages, Twice the Learning

29 Sep, 2017 in 7GenGames / Educational Games tagged 7 Generation Games / Educational Games by Marisol Schultz

road in North Dakota — Have you ever tried a bike-sharing app? Maybe if you live out in the country, it’s not a thing, but here in Santa Monica, you can’t go far without seeing the lime green bicycles from our local bike sharing company. The idea is simple. Get an app on your phone, […]

What bike-sharing can teach you about educational technology

11 Sep, 2017 in AnnMaria / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

pineapple — We had Dean Dauphinais, Jr. on the More Than Ordinary podcast this week talking about the charity he co-founded, All Star Vets. One of his motivations he mentioned was that veterans are often people who entered the service at a young age, as teenagers, and they were “part of a […]

Why my tribe needs you and a virtual pineapple

3 Sep, 2017 in AnnMaria / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

In working with 7 Generation Games and witnessing the growth and development of the products, specifically the bilingual games, I’ve sat back and wondered how a bilingual game would’ve helped me. But, one day I also realized it wouldn’t have just helped me, it would’ve helped my mom too. When […]

How Bilingual Games Can Help The Entire Family

1 Sep, 2017 in 7GenGames / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games by Victoria Moll-Ramírez

It has been brought to my attention lately that I have not been blogging very much and some people would like to hear more about what is happening. Well, I was kind of at this wedding thing – if you don’t know, now you know, my lovely next-to-youngest daughter got […]

Educational Game Secret: Girls (and boys) just want to have ...

31 Aug, 2017 in AnnMaria / Educational Games / Game Progress / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

I have had plenty of opportunities to retire comfortably. I have been a professor. I’ve worked as a statistical analyst at a large company. I’ve built a consulting company with long-term clients. If you have a short attention span – I will give you the answer now: The solution to […]

Why I quit my nice comfortable job

20 Aug, 2017 in AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

Kids will play a video game 50 times to incrementally improve, to get a fraction of a level further. Wouldn’t it great if they took that same approach when it came to homework problems? With educational games, that can happen! That realization is one that more and more people are […]

Why Your Kids Should Use Educational Games

16 Aug, 2017 in Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games / Educational Resources by Maria Burns Ortiz

tattoed Maya with pyramid in background — Have you ever had something heavy brought into your house on a trolley? (That’s the name of the cart with wheels used for, well, carting in and out, heavy stuff.) Have you ever used curb cuts when you are crossing the street pushing a baby stroller? Have you ever walked […]

Universal design: Wheelchair ramps and bilingual games

11 Aug, 2017 in AnnMaria / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

We launched our Kickstarter campaign for our bilingual AzTech Games series yesterday – hitting 13% of our goal in the first 12 hours – which was amazing! Of course, we still have a long way to go, and part of the reason why we decided to do a Kickstarter wasn’t […]

An Introduction to AzTech Games

11 Aug, 2017 in 7GenGames / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games / Educational Resources by Maria Burns Ortiz

We just launched a Kickstarter campaign for our upcoming bilingual games series, AzTech Games! (Back us please!) After weeks of planning and pulling together the video/determining rewards/lining up rollout/putting together the project page, now the real work begins. Doing a Kickstarter is kind of like having a baby. You spend and […]

Why We’re Doing Another Kickstarter

10 Aug, 2017 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Parenting Like I Know What I'm Doing / Start-up Diaries by Maria Burns Ortiz