Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Discouraging Students from Accessing Unblocked Games at School

By Jack Close


School officials have felt that it was a very good idea to utilize PCs and laptops in the classroom setting in order to give students ample time to learn early on. This idea also gave teachers more flexibility with their teaching methods especially with visual learners who learn better when they see pictures or images projected from a PC or laptop. With advantages come disadvantages, and eventually teachers and school officials found out that many students are using PCs and laptops not only for homework but also for accessing unblocked games at school.

During breaks like during lunch there is no issue if students play games on computers and laptops. The problem is that most of the gaming time occurs while lessons are being given. Students play unblocked games with their classmates and friends. This means that many of them are playing in multiple classes and over several classrooms. This has led the members of the school administration to attempt to find solutions.

School administrators have seen these problems and they have taken the necessary step of blocking the sites that offer these games. The filters are usually against the sites that offer pop up games as well as other gaming sites and also against the phrases or words used to search for these games. The most common phrases are unblocked games at school, games that work at school, and online unblocked games. These phrase filters work by automatically shutting the web browser when such words are entered into the search engines.

Kids though are smart enough to overcome these filters. Some students see the filters as challenge to their capabilities that they do all they can to thump them. In that case it can be effective to put forward policies and punishments regarding these unblocked games at school. The common penalties given to students who were caught doing the act are be deprived of computer time in school, be locked up, be suspended and eventually be kicked out.

Developers of website have learned to use the phrases for searching for unblocked games to drive traffic into certain sites. And the most common deception they do is prompting kids to download files that contain malware or viruses. These in turn can ruin the integrity of school network.

One good option that you can give to students when they want to play online games, during their free time, is playing games offered by some social networking sites like Facebook or MySpace. The online games offered here are more secured.




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