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bags of money — Entrepreneurs often hear that investors are only interested after a company has “traction”. Recently, our CEO made a wasted trip to meet someone who allegedly is interested in funding women-owned start-ups. At the meeting, she was told, “You’re too early for us. We don’t usually invest until a company is […]

Catch-22 for Start-up Funding: Inequality 101

April 7, 2016 in AnnMaria / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

Now I am not a famous mathematician. In fact, I’m not even a mathematician, but I have decided I’m not going to let that stop me from adding to the renown body of work shaped by those who came before me. In fact, if we were making a list, I would […]

Getting My Kids Out the Door and My Shot at ...

April 4, 2016 in Parenting Like I Know What I'm Doing by Maria Burns Ortiz

Draft 2 — I went to the Computer Users in Education conference in Palm Springs last month, not knowing what to expect. It turned out to be way cooler than what you’d expect and I definitely intend to go back for more reasons than I can tell you in just one post. One […]

CUE Meets the Giant

April 4, 2016 in AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games / Game Progress by AnnMaria De Mars

I have been teaching for 30 years – middle school, undergraduates, graduate students. I’ve given out my share of failing grades during that time, probably more than most people because in mathematics, statistics and programming courses, there is not much room for giving the student the benefit of the doubt. […]

What I Want to Say to Students Who Fail

April 3, 2016 in AnnMaria by AnnMaria De Mars

Happy Freebie Friday! This week in our new blog series, “Parenting Like I Know What I’m Doing”, our CEO Maria Burns Ortiz discussed how a parent can find sanity when their children are on Spring Break. Trying to find new activities or ways to entertain and educate your kids at […]

Freebie Friday: The Best Resource You Can Have During Spring ...

April 1, 2016 in 7GenGames / Freebie Friday tagged Camp Don't Get Dumb Over Summer / Freebie Friday / Spring Break / Summer Site by Erick Salomon

Going through our archives, we came across this great post from September 9, 2014 “No Wonder Kids Hate Math” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. I’m working on a section of a game that teaches fractions. If a player misses the question about where […]

Throwback Thursday: No Wonder Kids Hate Math

March 31, 2016 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged Dr. AnnMaria De Mars / Math / Throwback Thursday by Erick Salomon

As a child, I was absolutely convinced we didn’t have enough vacation days. As a parent, I sometimes find myself asking, “Seriously, another day off?! Didn’t you just have a vacation day? What on earth am I going to do with you all?” (And my daughter’s private school touts having […]

Days Off of School Take on a Whole Other Meaning ...

March 30, 2016 in Parenting Like I Know What I'm Doing by Maria Burns Ortiz

We get a lot of really good ideas from our users, but there are some that are a few tacos short of a combination plate. Here, in no particular order, are the five craziest suggestions I have received. ============== Player: Why are the Indians shooting the deer? I’m vegetarian. I really […]

Top Five Crazy Game Suggestions

March 30, 2016 in AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

barnyard scene — My mom used to say that any job was easy if you didn’t have to do it yourself. Mom was right, too. Just look at the number of people who have never stood in front of a class in their life but think teaching is easy. “If this whole doing […]

Any Job is Easy if You Don’t Have to Do ...

March 30, 2016 in AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

Always remember, ladies and gentlemen, while Burroughs had all of its engineers at work inventing a better adding machine, Steve Wozniak was in his garage inventing the Apple computer. Dr. Hastings, a professor in my MBA program back in 1980 said that and I have never forgotten. Within the span […]

Apple didn’t invent a better adding machine

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

I’m up in San Francisco for three days where I presented on educational games at the annual California Association of Bilingual Education conference – and left all three of my kids at home. It’s a change as I was really fortunate to be able to travel with my baby for […]

All By Myself: Reflections from the Road

March 25, 2016 in Parenting Like I Know What I'm Doing / Women in Tech by Maria Burns Ortiz

The California Association of Bilingual Education’s annual conference is the “must attend” event for anyone working in bilingual education in the state. Our CEO Maria Burns Ortiz and one of our teacher consultants Jovi Buendia are at CABE in San Francisco to present on educational games and ELL. If you’re […]

7 Generation Games at CABE 2016

March 24, 2016 in 7GenGames / Events by Maria Burns Ortiz