goguardian – Set Side B https://setsideb.com The Flipside of Gaming Sun, 30 Apr 2023 21:45:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://setsideb.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/cropped-mascot512-32x32.png goguardian – Set Side B https://setsideb.com 32 32 Getting Past Gaming Blocks On School Laptops https://setsideb.com/getting-past-blocks-on-school-laptops/ Wed, 03 May 2023 14:00:00 +0000 https://setsideb.com/?p=4399 Continue reading "Getting Past Gaming Blocks On School Laptops"]]> The eternal struggle: schools want to give students computers on which to do assignments and participate in remote learning, and students want to use those machines to have fun doing things other than schoolwork.

Fizz over on Metafilter, who regularly makes great gaming posts points us to a Vice article on the conflict, and a Youtube channel of tutorials, made by kids, for kids to use to get past software blockers on school-provided laptops. It shows that school remains a place for kids to learn valuable lessons, just not always the ones that administrators want them to learn, or in the ways they want them to learn them.

I mean, check out how awesome this kid is:

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