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boy and girl on computers playing our games — This evening, my granddaughter didn’t feel like watching her sister’s soccer practice, so she came over and proceeded to spend the next two hours playing with clay. We happen to have 50 different colors and a couple of play sets. While she was making her creations, she frequently stopped to […]

Why Do You Care So Much?

November 2, 2016 in AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

Interacting with experts in educational technology, I sometimes wonder if they inhabit a different world from me. In this world, installing software is not an issue, Internet speed is no problem and every child has a computer or iPad. I hope I get to visit there some day. I spent […]

The EdTech Problem No one Talks About

October 27, 2016 in Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

by Kelly Barnes To help understand families of children playing 7 Generation Games, AnnMaria asked me to weigh in on 7 Generation Games as a parent, PTA volunteer and front-line in the efforts to improve our schools and society for the next generations. So, here you go, your first missive […]

Notes from the Parental Front

October 25, 2016 in 7GenGames / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

bull — “I’m not Tom Cruise.” When a middle school math teacher said this, my initial response was, “No, duh.” He was irate, though, because this extremely qualified, knowledgable teacher had been told by his principal that he would not have any students failing in his class if he “made class more […]

Do what you love and never work a day in ...

October 21, 2016 in AnnMaria / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

planet earth — Nothing over the past few years has changed my mind about “educational games”. Most of these are either bad games or bad education. I don’t – completely – blame the makers of those games, though. That’s like blaming television executives for all of the stupid programs on TV. If 13 million […]

The crazy economics of educational technology expectations

October 20, 2016 in AnnMaria / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

Kid bad at math? Here’s your magic wand

October 17, 2016 in AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

Making Camp – the first iPad app from 7 Generation Games – is available in the Apple App Store! You can download “Making Camp” for FREE by going here: Leave us an app review to get a “thank you” shoutout on our More Than Ordinary podcast! Ever since we started working […]