PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES, ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS AND FEDERAL AGENCY REPORTS De Mars, A., Taken Alive, J., Ortiz, M., et al. (2022). Educators’ Perspectives on Factors Impacting STEM Achievement in Rural Indigenous Student- Serving Schools. The Rural Educator, 43(1), 24-36. https://doi.org/10.35608/ruraled.v43i1.1207 De Mars, A. (2021). Growing Math: Accessible, Cross-Curricular Education in Food and Agricultural […]
Educational Games
I’m sure you may have heard of our Making Camp game series, in fact I’m certain because it happens to be our most popular game series. Now Making Camp Ojibwe, the one that started it all, has gone through some updates. With Making Camp Ojibwe being one of the very […]
Long Time Coming: Making Camp Ojibwe Updated!
AnnMaria will be at BUILDFest LA 2024! BUILDFest LA is an event put on by BUILD.org, which is a nonprofit organization that empowers youths with entrepreneurship in order to have them become the CEOs of their own lives. BUILDFest is an event that will celebrate the work that BUILD.org has […]
AnnMaria Will Be At BUILDFest LA 2024!
We’ve been very busy at 7 Generation Games! We’ve been getting ready for new projects, working on making updates to our games, and now a new game release. The latest addition to our Disaster Deduction Detectives series is available. DDD Academy Agent Emilia is looking for a new recruit and […]
So Many Decisions…Division Decisions!
If you’ve played the beta version of Making Camp Navajo, and even if you haven’t, then we have great news. Making Camp Navajo went through a lot of huge changes and is now out of beta. Say hello to Making Camp Navajo 1.0! One of the major changes that Making […]
Making Camp Navajo 1.0!
TL; DR - in the Making Camp Navajo update, we made it a lot less likely that students would need to call over the teacher for help.
Thinking of teachers (& students): Making Camp Navajo Out of ...
Creating opportunities through breaking down barriers in educational game development We started 7 Generation Games because we believed kids deserved better. We built better learning games and got better results: better academic outcomes, better engagement and better representation (both games and classroom curriculum). Over time, our mission has stayed the […]
No code, no problem: 7 Gen Blocks EDU
Algebra allows you to go past memorizing answers to specific problems to solve TYPES of problems. 7 Gen Blocks lets you create types of problems, games or instruction with minimal coding.
7 Gen Blocks : Coding as Arithmetic is to Algebra
One of the things we’ve learned in making games is that players like games that give them options, so I thought I’d start this blog post by letting you make a choice. Think of it as a (very low budget) choose-your-adventure version of our blog posts. Option 1: You mentioned […]
We Made a Game About How We Make Games!
TL;DR – Being specific is a necessary but not sufficient condition for prompts for AI. Including examples in your prompts can work wonders. Now, read on. Let me tell you about one of the worst math games I ever saw. It was used in an alternative high school program for […]
What AI Can Do: Writing Useful Math Word Problems
Hi! My name’s Aahanaa and I’m an intern at 7 Generation Games. I go to college in Saint Paul but I’m originally from Kolkata, India. Why 7 Generation Games: I knew early on that I had a passion for both art and technology but for a good chunk of my […]
Intern Spotlight: Meet Aahanaa!
We’ve all taken it, right? That “pop quiz” that a teacher inevitably gives in late middle school or high school that goes something like this. Your teacher hands out a test paper. At the top, it says: Directions: Read through the entire test before beginning. Then complete the test. Then […]