Super excited to be teaching Intro to Statistics in the spring and I think that is how I should always feel about a job.

I'd estimate that Gemini and Copilot make me a 1.15x developer. Proof that I am not completely an AI hater, with a bit of code - www.7generationgames.com/how-ai-makes...

#iTeachMath folks - any better term than "Teachers need to recoup learning loss"? It's not as much loss due to the pandemic but just the need to bring students up to grade level who are behind for any reason. Remediation?

Working on a game about #northdakota towns and counties, including 1930s establishment of Denbigh Experimental Forest. Why does this make me hopeful? Because it shows that the things we worried about 100 years ago are forgotten but some good things, like the forest, endure.

Who agrees? ✋

We're all seeing that AI is like a junior developer that needs specific direction, gets answers wrong and always promises to get better but never does. Yet, we are supposed to pretend that we are all just “prompting it wrong” or “just not using the right AI.” www.7generationgames.com/yet-another-...

I've been teaching statistics for 41 years (yes, I started in my 20s) and I'm trying to think of a question that would help create lectures or assignments for my course that I don't already know the answer to. Only use of AI now is, optionally, students use notebookLM to study on the go #iTeachMath

Update 7 Gen Blocks released at 11:59 last night and <24 hours later here is the first educational game made with it - Axolotl Adventure - a bell ringer for environmental science - 7generationgames.com/axolotl-adve...

Was looking for educators to follow on blue sky. Found a long list from a starter pack but when I checked their profiles, most of these people on #edusky had not posted in over a year. I teach statistics and make educational games. If you're in #mathed or #socialstudies , hit me up

Merry Christmas. Finally a chance to sit down after days of cooking, cleaning, wrapping, eating and opening presents. Hope you all are having a wonderful Christmas or (a little late) Hanukkah

Here's a conundrum, for years, we've had a start-up / 7 Generation Games newsletter. People come up to me at conferences and tell me they read it. No one knows how they got on it. There wasn't even anywhere to sign up - so I made a sign up form on our website www.7generationgames.com/how-in-the-w...

I'm teaching Intro to #Statistics to education majors in the spring. Please let me know any great ideas you have for assignments / examples. Not my first time teaching it by a long shot, but my first time in 12 years (been teaching biostats , epi & advanced stats)

After teaching #biostatistics for 13 years, I'm teaching intro to #statistics this spring for the first time in about 15 years. New book, updating assignments. I'm only doing it for one course and it's a ton of work. Teachers obviously don't get paid enough.

You know those articles about how #AI made senior developers SLOWER. Add me as another data point. Spent hours yesterday trying to debug why this function was not working on touch devices. All copilot's suggestions failed. The first thing I tried today worked. Fixed it in 5 minutes.😵‍💫

My latest update: TL; DR; Everything is fine and you can make $$ by referrals t us for customized educational games. Also, we're offering free PD on making educational games, starting in April, 2026 www.linkedin.com/pulse/everyt...

Currently on hold with @microsoft.com business tech support for an hour and 40 minutes trying to get help with our Microsoft partner account. Just sitting here fixing bugs while I wait. What is the maximum time you've ever been put on hold?

I often feel as if we are behind because we never have ALL of the bugs fixed, but I want to celebrate some wins - Updated versions in Play Store last month of Aztech: Empiric Empire, Making Camp Lakota, Making Camp Ojibwe and Making Camp Premium. Updated App Store of Empiric Empire today. #gamedev

I follow a lot of people in #education on here and don't see their posts. I thought they were all inactive but then I go to their profiles and learn that they HAVE been posting but I haven't been seeing it.

I started reading a pamphlet on the Library of Congress website and the next thing you know, I was making a game about poll tests - www.7generationgames.com/how-the-libr...

More games being built with blocks every week. I can't keep up with them all . 7genblocks.com/built-with-b...

On the Professor Game podcast, Matt Dalio said .. “If you could be profitable, even if it’s just barely profitable, then it allows you to live forever. And then it allows you to grow and crescendo upon something very real.” tinyurl.com/tewecant

Free cheeseburgers. No, actually it's a free book of our family texts, The Family Textbook. I give a lot to charity, including this week when I am inundated with requests. I'm sure you are all, too, so I thought I would give everyone here that follows me a free book. drive.google.com/file/d/1vVpl...

A year ago, I wrote about AI apps. Today, I revisited that post. It began: It seems the world is divided into two camps, those who believe we'll be replaced by a horde of AI overlords & those who think the whole thing is the 2024 version of Bored Ape NFTs. www.7generationgames.com/firefly-one-...

How is becoming a world #judo champion like creating a platform to make educational #games ? Let me count the ways .... 1 www.7generationgames.com/3-ways-becom...

Did you know you can get free professional development on making educational games from 7 Generation Games? Well, now you do - www.7generationgames.com/get-free-pro...

I had 15K followers on the site-known-as-twitter and less than 300 here. Don't know how to get out information on what 7 Generation Games is doing and build up the same following. Here are 2 lessons from teachers in our summer workshop + 2 educational games www.7generationgames.com/two-new-educ...

The number one request we get from teachers is to make a game for younger children. So far, the lowest level of math we cover is multiplication, in Making Camp Ojibwe & Making Camp Premium. Doing a game now, Powwow Stands, to practice addition.

What I've been up to lately - Housekeeping a.k.a repaying technical debt, fixing Unity bugs and cranking out new games at warp speed thanks to 7 Gen Blocks www.7generationgames.com/housecleanin...

I can't be the only person who finds fixing bugs relaxing.

Who made this? 🤣🤣🤣

Fixed the Unity bugs, uploaded our sixth game in the past year (actually 8th, six under the 7 Gen Games label) and the game builder is on schedule and we did it all while working from #placencia #belize www.linkedin.com/pulse/speed-...

Games completed so far from the  Library of Congress grant. The first game we did it as part of the Global Game Jam with a teacher who wanted a game that included math and history and could be played equally by blind and sighted children. www.7generationgames.com/games-teachi...

Thought I would get back to posting. Here are some things I have been up to - made 2 new educational games - www.7generationgames.com/two-new-educ... about plant knowledge and generosity

My Ted Talk is up . youtu.be/7v4C0UzdkZo What we talk about at the secret world champions meetings

Why I created an AI agent and then rewrote the whole thing using our own code. Two words: time, money - www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-num...

I love this lesson plan on Chokecherries and Fractions for so many reasons. www.growingmath.org/chokecherrie... It also includes a lot on teaching vocabulary, reading, Lakota culture and Lakota language. There is an optional but highly recommended cooking activity.

How do you get back the time you spend on social media? Here are three tips that work for me. www.lifeondemars.com/2025/10/16/l...

Sen. Kaine: We could open this government and get the funding done in 36 hours if Trump would just engage rather than spending time with the Argentine president and cutting a deal with the Qataris. America first, folks. Let's get government open and bring people's healthcare costs down

www.lifeondemars.com/2025/10/15/f... I wrote about "found time" in our linked in newsletter and so many people commented on it that I wrote a blog about found time and grabbed time

Are you going to be at AATC in Minneapolis next week? Just got off call with Dan Conn and our presentation on Combining Primary Sources and #AI to Co-design Games on #Indigenous and #Rural #History is going to be the most fun at the conference. How could it not be, it involves playing #games

Woohoo - 7 Generation Games won the Latinx EdTech Summit for K12 applications for our 7 Gen Blocks

What do you do when you have too much to do? Remember that jugglers don’t get paid too often and sometimes the balls hit them in the head. Apologies if there are some typos in this because I finished it while waiting for Pitch Latino to start - www.7generationgames.com/startup-jugg...

Went on @kickstarter.com since I hadn't been there in a while & I don't want to be a hypocrite when we had 3 successful Kickstarter campaigns, so just picked a cute game and backed it www.kickstarter.com/projects/tla...

This is what happens when justice serves power instead of people. Banksy’s latest piece shows a judge beating a protester. They rushed to throw up barriers to hide it. We need this here because it looks a lot like our own Supreme Court vs. the people.

Lunch with the fam at Lula's

My biggest flaw as a developer is starting to code before sitting down and writing out exactly how it needs to work from the user perspective. My second biggest flaw is not regularly updating the document when I do think of writing it down. Working on it.

Why senior developers never write "clever" code. Clever code is hard to read. Hard to debug. Impossible to maintain. Your goal isn't to look smart. It's to write simple, boring code that just works. #Buildinpublic