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Dr. Longie — Dr. Erich Longie, our lead cultural consultant, testified in Grand Forks, North Dakota, this week on the issue of allowing Native American children to wear an eagle feather or bead their caps at graduation. His testimony is reproduced below. First of all, I want to thank Native American Parent Committee for […]

American Indian Education and its Effect on Indian Culture

January 18, 2015 in 7GenGames by AnnMaria De Mars

Going through our archives, we came across this great post from October 9, 2014 on “Repetition is the Recipe to Success ” that we wanted to share with you in case you missed it the first time around. I find it weird when I make people nervous. I’ve had people shake and stutter so […]

Throwback Thursday: Repetition is the Recipe to Success

January 15, 2015 in AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged Dr. AnnMaria De Mars / Success / Working Hard by AnnMaria De Mars

The children are heading back to school, you’re thinking about putting away the decorations, swearing you really will send out Christmas cards next year. To finish off the season, here is our annual holiday letter, sent when we all have a moment to get a cup of coffee and catch […]

A Christmas Letter from 7 Generation Games

January 14, 2015 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Educational Games / Game Progress / Math / Start-up Diaries / Women in Tech tagged Game Improvements / Spirit Lake by AnnMaria De Mars

Jenn and Ronda — I love Ronda Rousey as much as the next person does. In fact, I love her probably a thousand times more than the next person does because I am her mom. I couldn’t be happier that she has won three world titles in two different sports. That’s wonderful. That being […]

Education is More Important than World Titles

January 13, 2015 in AnnMaria / Educational Games / Math by AnnMaria De Mars

It’s Friday and here’s your freebie from 7 Generation Games. This week we are featuring several PowerPoint presentations that you can download for free from our website. The presentations are also available for download in a PDF format. All of these resources were developed to complement the common core-aligned concepts as they relate to […]

Freebie Friday: PowerPoint presentations that teach math

January 9, 2015 in 7GenGames / Education: Innovation and STEM / Freebie Friday tagged Common Core / Freebie Friday by admin

Going through our archives, we came across this great post from July 15, 2012 on “Tinkerbell visits The Julia Group” that we wanted to share with you in case you missed it the first time around. My father passed away about 18 months ago. We hadn’t spoken much of the past […]

Throwback Thursday: The Comfort of the Lives We Have Made

January 8, 2015 in AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged Dr. AnnMaria De Mars / Throwback Thursday by AnnMaria De Mars

teachers — Steve Blank talks about the mistake that led him to lose $35 million – not having gamers as co-founders in a gaming company. HE emphasizes the importance of having the right people on your team, including the ones who truly understand the product that you are building. He says, “To […]

Why Ed Tech Companies NEED Teachers

January 7, 2015 in AnnMaria / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

Math Example — What do number sense and professional or Olympic athletes have in common? If you watch a truly gifted athlete you will see that they seem to have a sixth sense about their sport. They see things other people don’t. Wayne Gretzky was such a great hockey player because while others […]

Number Sense and Elite Athletes

January 6, 2015 in AnnMaria / Educational Games / Math by AnnMaria De Mars

book — 2015 is going to be a great year, I can feel it. One post isn’t going to be enough to get in all of my resolutions for the new year. Staff at the Ferguson Library tweeted the question, “What are your literary resolutions?” My literary resolution is to read a programming […]

My Literary Resolutions

December 31, 2014 in AnnMaria by AnnMaria De Mars

Girl about to set off on path — Five hundred years ago, the Ojibwe people picked up everything they owned and walked half-way across the continent. No one really knows why. There is no written history of this event. I remember the precise moment I first heard about it. I was talking to Debbie Gourneau, from Turtle Mountain, […]

It starts with a good story ….

December 29, 2014 in AnnMaria / Educational Games / Game Progress by AnnMaria De Mars

It’s Friday and here’s your freebie from 7 Generation Games. Let’s Snare Rabbits! You can download our Tic-Tac-Toe Game for Adding Fractions from the Teachers Pay Teacher site. Don’t let the name of the website throw you off, this game is absolutely free to download. Answer the problem correctly to […]

Freebie Friday: Tic-Tac-Toe Game for Adding Fractions

December 26, 2014 in 7GenGames / Freebie Friday tagged Jack Rabbit Road / tic tac toe / waabooz by admin

It’s almost Christmas, do you still need to get a present for someone? We can help you! Have you heard of Spirit Lake: The Game? It combines math with Native American History. It’s only $9.99 and and you don’t even have to put shoes on or leave the house to […]

Need the best holiday gift ever? We have you covered!

December 22, 2014 in 7GenGames / Educational Games tagged Buy One / Educational Games / Educational Video Games Holiday Gifts / Gift One / Spirit Lake:The Game by admin