Gen i Revolution teachers guide: the personal finance game today

Digitec Interactive developed Gen i Revolution for the Council for Economic Education (CEE), which managed the suite of games. Students played alone or on teams and competed against classmates, while the platform also carried lessons, materials and further resources for teachers.

The game was organized as episodic missions. In its 2014 form there were fifteen, each introducing a character in a financial crisis. Students read up on the problem, picked their "Operatives" and completed activities to solve it. The farewell message on the project site casts the whole effort as a long battle against "financial confusion". The concepts covered building wealth, investing in human capital, budgeting, credit, risk and return, stocks, bonds, mutual funds, forecasting and financial planning.

The missions followed the concepts of a teacher resource guide, the Learning, Earning and Investing book, which is aligned with state and national standards. It pairs lessons with visuals and activities and a glossary of financial terms, and it came with a downloadable Companion Resource and an Integration Guide. Teachers could use the book and the game separately or together, and combining them gave a fuller investor education program than either one alone.

The materials page of the project site describes the combined program as a guide, a companion website and the online game, written for grades 9 through 12.

The book is still published. Its current page describes Learning, Earning, and Investing for a New Generation as 21 lessons on the basics of investing, with downloadable visuals and activities, and a link to purchase the book.

The game's own website carries a farewell note to educators. It says the mission behind Gen i Revolution has come to a close after more than ten years and points teachers to EconEdLink, where CEE offers games and simulations for personal finance and economics. EconEdLink presents itself as a free K-12 economics and personal finance resource.

One page on the same site was left in older wording. The materials page still describes a 21-lesson guide and a "16-Mission online game" and invites visitors to sign up, which conflicts with the farewell note. The note on the home page is the clearer statement of the project's status, so the game is treated here as retired.