GREAT NEWS TO ALL THE PARENTS WITH CHILDREN WHO ENJOY PLAYING VIDEO GAMES, BECAUSE THEY ARE GOOD FOR YOUR CHILD’S BRAIN. Video games impact on brain structure increasing the size of some regions and activating others, making some skills more efficient, such as attention and visuospatial skills. Researchers from the […]
Educational Games
We’re wrapping up the game design class at Spirit Lake this week. Two weeks was the most time I could spare away from the office but we have accomplished a lot. Applications used in game design by middle school students Because all of the students had just completed grades 4 […]
Game Design by Middle School Students
1 As a gamer, attending E3 was a thrilling and exciting experience! The moment I received my badge (which looked awesome by the way) the inner nerd/gamer in me immediately wanted to jump up and down in excitement. The scenery of E3 made the experience especially memorable. The highly detailed posters, […]
Reflections on E3: An Exciting, Entertaining and Educational Experience
1 It’s been a great start to the summer session teaching game design at Warwick Middle School. Students started off playing two math games, an adventure game and a collector game. We discussed the idea of game genre and what is needed to make a video game – assets, code, story […]
Teaching Game Design at Spirit Lake
We're testing educational software in the most remote areas of the country. It's beautiful but it's also important work, remembering schools most companies forget about.
Testing educational software where the antelope play
Do you see these common math class flaws ? Whether you’re a teacher or a student, you might have noticed that -with the current educational system- the content in math is re-taught at the beginning of every school year, picking up months before where we left off. Since, logically, these […]
5 Signs that your Math Class has Problems
There are about 7,000 languages spoken around the world — and they all have different sounds, vocabularies and structures. But do they shape the way we think? Cognitive scientist Lera Boroditsky shares examples of language — from an Aboriginal community in Australia that uses cardinal directions instead of left and […]
People who speak different languages pay attention to different things
How would you feel if you woke up excited on cold autumn mornings to go to school? That’s the dream that we have at 7 Generation Games. We want to give you lessons that make learning fun! But seriously, how can games make teachers’ lives easier? We have games that […]
We make teachers’ lives easier with educational games
Watch this video to learn what fractions have to do with fishing. You can apply fractions to almost everything! Actually, you can use fractions to discover whether your tribe, which depends on fishing, is going to die of starvation.
VIDEO – Fractions and Fishing
Some might say that gaming has a negative impact on kids’ ability to learn. But here’s some news – our games have a positive impact. Why? Because we make educational videogames that actually work. Check our published research below for the nitty-gritty details: The value of perseverance: Using Dakota culture […]
4 Benefits of Game-based learning
I cannot emphasize enough the importance of algebra As a professor, I saw SO many students enter college with high hopes, only to run into the obstacle of their first college level math course. One of two things happened. Either they dropped out of college altogether when they found out […]