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🎥 New Video Coming Soon: Watch me build a game from scratch!

See How a Complete Educational Game is Built in Minutes! If you’ve been curious about how our 7 Gen Blocks game builder works and how a concept in your head becomes a fully functional, playable video game- you’re just in time! This Friday, we are releasing a brand-new, asynchronous pre-recorded webinar where I walk you […]

I do my marketing thinking out loud

Crowd-sourcing my marketing plan I call it crowd-sourcing. Maria calls it asking random people on the internet. I’m going to run down my such-as-it-is marketing plan. Feel free to comment. Please do not contact me about your services as a marketing specialist at $800 an hour.

Boosting Student Engagement: Put Yourself in the Game!

Level up your teaching using our game builder and AI tools to clone your classroom, your students’ favorite teacher (hopefully yourself!), and anything else you think will drive student engagement. Personalizing your games makes your students feel like the experience was built just for them. It’s also a great way to inject some fun into the lesson- especially if you include inside jokes, like that…

How learning can still happen on the crazy days

No matter how great of a teacher you are, whether you teach third-grade or the third quarter of Calculus, you are going to have days when you think it's going to require a miracle for any learning to take place. Here is an idea that worked for me.

Powwow Stands: Finally a game for younger students

Absolutely by far the number one request we get at 7 Generation Games is for games for lower levels of mathematics, "Couldn't you do something with addition or subtraction?" So, I made Powwow Stands

A no-code educational game builder using YOUR intelligence: Why it took so long

TL; DR; To survive long-term, your company needs to make a profit. The work you are doing that pays money today is not developing a new product you aren't selling yet. So, there is a trade-off and innovation takes longer but your company is more likely to survive. I have a lot more to say but I need to get back to development. If you want to meet me in person, check out the bottom of this post.

Problem-solving strategies have to be taught

Problem-solving strategies give students a mechanism for identifying elements of a problem, determining a course of action, and checking the answer. However, sometimes students don’t have a wide enough array of strategies and we can't assume they'll discover these on their own. Fortunately, we have videos, games and lessons to help you teach a variety of strategies.

How AI makes me a 1.15x developer

I stick by what I said in my last post that I am skeptical of claims that AI is making hordes of people 5x developers. If that is the case, you probably sucked in the first place. Actually, that might be exactly it, because as I think of the areas that AI has helped me immensely, these are mostly in which I am not very good or knowledgable.

Yet another post on the emperor’s new AI

We're expected to believe AI is making us 5x as productive even while it persist in giving wrong answers.

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We have a newsletter on the behind the scenes of running a start-up - and no one knows how to sign up for the list - until now.