Challenges to Use Unblocked Computer Video Games in Schools

Despite the popularity of fun unblocked games between students and even among teachers, many barriers block their wide acceptance and the good use of their potential in school. Three pillars are the key to success in using these online computer video games in schools: prepared teachers, adequate school structure and planning, and good variety and quality of games available. Without these pillars, educational experience with the use of games can yield frustrating results. A study done using 3D simulation software with a graphical environment designed to support the free exploration of mathematical concepts in 3 dimensions, presented disappointing results. Among the factors of failure were the conflict with the traditional and inflexible class schedule and difficulties to reserve the laboratories' computers for the successive training sessions required for the study. They also pointed out that the expectations of software students exceeded what non-commercial software offered, a problem of the quality of software resources, expanded by the software that students had at home. An additional result was that the games provoked an engagement and motivation of the students below expectations. They found that a small number of people feel a mysterious difficulty in thinking about this kind of environment. A co-author of the study points to the tendency to want to use the same tool for all sorts of problems and the lack of clear definitions of what was desired by the game, noting that there are as many unblocked games available at Puffgames as the tastes of the players. Also, since a game becomes a mandatory school activity, it can quickly lose its power of fun and become just one more task. Therefore, she suggests, games can be better accepted at home after school activities, as they would be free of the rules of evaluation of the school model. Quality and variety of gamesrnLike any tool, teachers need to have at their disposal games of quality and good variety. In this case, fun unblocked games have quality not only in terms of design (colors, animations, sounds), but also in terms of plot, creativity, challenging situations for the student and in terms of functional resources available to students and teachers. rnTypically, most classroom games are simplistic, based on interactive quizzes and quizzes that explicitly seek to support the school curriculum. They have been developed for educational goals. In these cases, learning becomes fun, and students quickly learn. What surprises the teachers is that there is much care in development, these computer games are created with adaptation for the age groups. Included only related objects, only makes happy the child because of their fun features. There are good examples. Language learning games encourage students to learn while playing games, singing and dancing. The variety of rules included in these games is interesting for everyone.