Games That Make You Smarter

Educational Games

Marisol Castillo Schultz — I had the opportunity to research and review Stanford’s YouCubed mathematics site. Not to sound cynical, but when I started my expectations were as follows: toddler math games, links to math games and math activities for students to do at home or in class and half of these are going […]

YouCubed: Math Site Review

September 10, 2015 in Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games / Math by AnnMaria De Mars

Aunt Jean — I’ve spent the last two days working on just one concept – greatest common factor. I’ve written several pages of explanation and examples, a math activity where you drag numbers that are factors to the correct spot, added <abbr> tags that you can hover over to get words defined. In […]

You Don’t Get Smarter By Accident

August 21, 2015 in AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

players dead under the night sky — One of those things that is actually FAR more interesting than it sounds is “standards for mathematical practice”. These are things that everyone at every grade should be learning. My favorite (yes, I have a favorite, don’t judge me), is to persevere in solving problems. I am totally convinced that […]

Giving Up Is Not An Option

August 17, 2015 in AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

flying chicken — I had a grandchild home from camp with a fever, so she was at my house. If you were in our house that morning, you would have heard this shouted from the downstairs office to the upstairs office. Grandpa! Grandma needs that sound you get when catch a chicken! […]

The Flying Chicken of Failure

August 5, 2015 in AnnMaria / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

We have data to show that kids who play our games improve their math skills substantially. We have anecdotal data (that sounds so much more scientific than “email from players”! ) that tells us adults who play our games improve their math skills. Seriously, if you are over 13 years […]

Podcasts that make you smarter

July 13, 2015 in AnnMaria / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

Mayan codex — I was going to title this “How not to be stupid in game design” but then I realized the points apply to just about everything. Hello, people in industry, non-profits, government – in short, just about everybody – if you are going to design something for a group of people, […]

How NOT to Be Stupid

July 5, 2015 in AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

baby at door — We are beyond delighted to announce that we have been funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture for our Small Business Innovation Research proposal, Aztech Games. Today, I’d like to answer four questions: What is Aztech Games? Why would the Department of Agriculture fund a game that teaches math, social […]

How is Aztech Games Like an Automatic Door?

June 21, 2015 in AnnMaria / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

Fish Lake — We’re Getting Smarter and You Can Too! We are excited to have just released the brand new version of our video game Spirit Lake 5.0! You can download your copy by visiting our website here: http://www.7generationgames.com/buy/ As with all software, we’re constantly working to make our product better – and Spirit Lake […]

We’re Getting Smarter and You Can Too!

June 9, 2015 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Game Progress tagged Spirit Lake / summer learning by admin

classroom — Did you know that we are able to offer free game licenses to classrooms in Title I schools, tribal schools, or after school programs that serve Native American students? If you know a teacher or school that could benefit from playing our adventure games, simply email us at: info@7generationgames.com A little […]

Do you know any schools, teachers or after school programs ...

April 29, 2015 in 7GenGames / Educational Games tagged donate a game / Fish Lake / Spirit Lake / Title I School by admin

7 Generation Games is excited to be attending the 8th Annual OLC/MERLOT Emerging Technologies for Online Learning International Symposium on April 22-24, 2015 at the Sheraton Dallas Hotel in Dallas, Texas. Earlier this year, 7 Generation Games submitted their application to be apart of the Launch Pad where only 10 educational technology companies […]

Emerging Technologies for Online Learning Symposium

April 23, 2015 in 7GenGames / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games / Events / Women in Tech tagged #et4online / 8th Annual OLC/MERLOT Emerging Technologies for Online Learning International Symposium / Launch Pad by admin

7 Generation Games — If this is your first visit to our website, thank you for taking the time to read our blog and let us introduce ourselves. We are a company that combines math, Native American history and adventure gaming into our video games. The video clip below demonstrates the (awesome) video games that […]

How 7 Generation Games differs from other companies

April 23, 2015 in 7GenGames / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games / Math / Women in Tech by admin

dog — Each game we make is aimed at an older and wider audience than the one before. That is cool for a whole bunch of reasons. However, sometimes it’s good to loop back and see what you were working on years ago. Even six months ago can be a long time […]

Back to Square One Can Be a Good Thing

March 23, 2015 in AnnMaria / Educational Games / Game Progress by AnnMaria De Mars