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You might have thought the 2017 election season was over after yesterday – you’d be wrong. Well, kind of. We at 7 Generation Games need your vote. If you’re reading this post and thinking, “Where do I go vote?” the answer is right here. (And you can go back and […]

Vote 7 Generation Games into the Global Entrepreneurship Summit Semifinals!

November 9, 2017 in 7GenGames / Start-up Diaries by Maria Burns Ortiz

Hello everyone, it’s Friday and that means that it’s time for the Freebie Friday. Today’s freebie is from our game Spirit Lake and it’s a video on a problem solving tip. The problem solving tip is to start at the end of the math word problem. Often, the problem that […]

Freebie Friday – Problem Solving Tip: Start at the End

November 3, 2017 in 7GenGames / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games / Freebie Friday tagged 7 Generation Games / Educational Games / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday by Diana Sanchez

Our company is doing a software design project with students from New Earth school (keep reading to find why this is extraordinary). The students complete a series of assignments to help us do a revision of one of our games. They start by meeting with one of our team members […]

And now for some good news: Software Design with New ...

November 3, 2017 in AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games / New earth by AnnMaria De Mars

Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from January 17, 2017 “It doesn’t matter what you do (and that’s a good thing)” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. I have several ideas for blog posts […]

Throwback Thursday: It doesn’t matter what you do (and that’s ...

November 2, 2017 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged 7 Generation Games / AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday by Diana Sanchez

boots — We’ve all had them – those teachers who really need to take their lesson plans, retire and go home. They’re teaching from the same set of yellowed lecture notes they wrote in 1974. I never want to be one of those teachers, so, on a regular basis, I try to […]

Putting Myself in the Students’ Shoes

November 1, 2017 in AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM by AnnMaria De Mars

checkbook — At age 15, I made a fake ID that said I was 18, left home, got a job and a checking account. That was over 40 years ago and it is probably harder to do in this age of computers when people can check up on you more easily. On […]

Someone Needs to Be Teaching This

October 29, 2017 in AnnMaria by AnnMaria De Mars

It’s the end of another week and that means that it’s time for the Freebie Friday! Today’s freebie is related to our game Fish Lake and it’s a game on fractions. This is a link we like and it’s called the FractOne Math Game. Since our game Fish Lake teaches […]

Freebie Friday – FractOne: Math Game

October 27, 2017 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday tagged 7 Generation Games / Educational Games / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday by Diana Sanchez

Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from December 16, 2016 “What comes after you fixed all the bugs?” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. I’ve hardly blogged, answered emails or talked to anyone these […]

Throwback Thursday: What comes after you fixed all the bugs?

October 26, 2017 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged 7 Generation Games / AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday by Diana Sanchez

Sell the sizzle, not the steak I’ve always hated that Silicon Valley cliche. I know people saying it think they are smartly pointing out that people buy for reasons other than pragmatic ones. We want products that make us feel cool, sexy and superior. That focus on marketing can also […]

Be the solution, not the problem

October 24, 2017 in AnnMaria / Educational Games / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

Whether or not you backed us on Kickstarter, you’d probably find our Family Textbook hilarious. It’s a book of, you guessed it, our family group text. If you didn’t back us on Kickstarter for $50 or more, you won’t be getting one, but you can still read about what you’re […]

“Who said it?” Trivia game from our Family Textbook

October 24, 2017 in AnnMaria / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

It’s the end of another week and that means that it’s time for another Freebie Friday. Today’s freebie is from our game, AzTech Games. The freebie is a video on percentages and it teaches you what a percent is and how to find a percent. View the video on percent […]

Freebie Friday: What is a percent?

October 20, 2017 in 7GenGames / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday tagged 7 Generation Games / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday by Diana Sanchez

If your entire exposure to county extension agents has been the clueless guy on Green Acres, you are about to be pleasantly surprised. I haven’t been blogging much lately because I’ve been criss-crossing the country in planes and automobiles to meet with schools about our games. Maria told me that […]

Sioux County is not your grandmother’s 4H and it’s AMAZING

October 17, 2017 in AnnMaria / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

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