I know I'm picturing a technology will solve education problems, but... ...can't we fund some amazing games that are... educational?
Where is the MECC for the 21st century? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MECC
Kids trying to play video games on school laptops
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Re: Kids trying to play video games on school laptops
#32This relates to something that has been bugging me lately, which is as a parent I have zero parental control over the devices that our school board issues to my children. My kids have iPhones and iPads, which are part of my Apple family account, and I can both monitor what they are doing and also set limits on screen time including hours of usage and for particular apps. However, I recently became aware that my son w…
You control the network that device is on. Block and/or track access using that fact. I use a combination of DNS via https://1.1.1.1/ and WiFi/DHCP via https://eero.com/ . Works great. Yes. This should be way easier.
I schedule my wifi to turn off when people should be asleep. That can help depending on the device.
Re: Kids trying to play video games on school laptops
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
I once got suspended because I figured out how to bypass my schools lockdown policies on the computers in the lab and wouldnt tell them how i did it. (Hint: i learned they kept the "bypass" code in clear text in the registry, and later simply killed the processes from a command prompt with a batch file). I also had a small apache server and ftp box i would tunnel though or get executables from i wanted to play (like…
Did they ever notice anything amiss with the phone bill?
My pops was in sales. The fax line itself was a write off. That said, at one point he told a colleague to fax him something and he would pick it up at home and it was busy, which got me busted. Mostly the fax line was used then for him to send his receipt scans into accounting though.
I was grounded for that as well. But it was also near/around the time that broadband/docsis was rolling out so they moved to it at some point soon after.
My tech inept dad was what got me into tech honestly. He had a nack for turning off the computer by just holding the power button back in the windows 95 days. Eventually he corrupted the thing, blamed me and forced me to "fix" it with gateway support. I ended up searching up how to install an OS at the school lab, and just re-installed windows for him and stopped using a computer at home until i could get my own.
Re: Kids trying to play video games on school laptops
#34I learned how to program as a side effect of modifying games and then programming my own.
Re: Kids trying to play video games on school laptops
#35This relates to something that has been bugging me lately, which is as a parent I have zero parental control over the devices that our school board issues to my children. My kids have iPhones and iPads, which are part of my Apple family account, and I can both monitor what they are doing and also set limits on screen time including hours of usage and for particular apps. However, I recently became aware that my son w…
We handle this by not allowing devices in our kid's room after lights-out. There's just no reason to have them there, and they represent a temptation that can be hard to resist at any age, nevermind school-age.
Ah, the old days when I'd read a book with a flashlight under the covers.
Re: Kids trying to play video games on school laptops
#36My generation was writing games on school computers. Now they struggle to play them. Kids these days! Happy to consume content endlessly. It has to mean something. { Old man shakes his cane at young people. }
What percentage of your generation was actually writing games on school computers? 0.1%? If that. That number is definitely higher today, given that they have computer programming classes in schools now. I get that you're trying to make a self aware joke about your comment with the old man shaking his cane. But this comment really is completely out of touch with reality.
I guess I didn't see the comments from others about creating games in their youth. Sorry for being so out of touch!
Re: Kids trying to play video games on school laptops
#37Back in my day it was easy: Mac OS used the 4-character "creator code" to check what applications your user could open, so you just set the creator code to a known allowed one and could run anything you want. Of course you don't have access to run ResEdit, so your bring your own copy of that on a flash drive with its creator code already fixed. "RASM" was my go-to. That was the remote access status monitor, and any u…
There was a while on our school macs where they were doing application restriction by directory instead of by executable. The Rosetta Stone folder in particular was a popular place for people to run stuff out of.
Re: Kids trying to play video games on school laptops
#38I kind of miss the days of school-sanctioned educational games, like those from MECC / The Learning Company. Of course the quality varied, but it made sense as a reward for finishing an assignment, where it could still be fun, but still be educational.
I truly miss Number Munchers haha. We played until the game crashed because the computer running it ran out of memory. Somewhere around n=13 for the prime number version (the only version worth playing). Probably because at that point there were too many monsters on the board.
Re: Kids trying to play video games on school laptops
#39This relates to something that has been bugging me lately, which is as a parent I have zero parental control over the devices that our school board issues to my children. My kids have iPhones and iPads, which are part of my Apple family account, and I can both monitor what they are doing and also set limits on screen time including hours of usage and for particular apps. However, I recently became aware that my son w…
The other answers are great
1. Keep the devices out of your kids room
2. Control access via Apple’s parental controls (like you already do) and also via NextDNS which allows excellent filtering controls (time of day, content, etc).
Re: Kids trying to play video games on school laptops
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
You control the network that device is on. Block and/or track access using that fact. I use a combination of DNS via https://1.1.1.1/ and WiFi/DHCP via https://eero.com/ . Works great. Yes. This should be way easier.
Until your kid learns how to boot linux and run aircrack-ng to get into the neighbor's wifi because you're restricting the internet access... Ask me how I know
And then, at some point, hacking systems becomes a lot more fun than playing video games.
A lot of kids learned about hacking (the good and the bad kind) this way.