In Tokyo school, Nintendo DS is an English teacher

Sat Jun 28 14:45:57 UTC 2008

USA Today

In Tokyo school, Nintendo DS is an English teacher

The Nintendo DS isn't just fun and games anymore for English students at Tokyo's Joshi Gakuen all-girls junior high school. The portable video game console is now being used as a key teaching tool, breaking with traditional Japanese academic methods.

A giggly class of 32 seventh-graders used plastic pens to spell words like "hamburger" and "cola" on the touch panel screen - the key feature of the hit console - following an electronic voice from the machine.

Full story:

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/gaming/2008-06-27-nintendo-ds-english-japan_N.htm

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