Lucky school children in Japan are soon to have the Nintendo DS added to their curriculum. Nintendo is working with Sharp System Products to bring a modified handheld, the Nintendo DS Classroom, to junior high and high school students in Japan by February 2010.
The DS will feature "around 60 applications covering kanji, math, civics, physics, and history," and will allow students to take tests, do assignments, and hook up to the teacher's DS through wi-fi in order to receive real-time feedback on their work. This is all, presumably, part of Nintendo's master plan to integrate their products into every facet of life and eventually take over the earth with iconic characters and innovative game control systems.
I don't like the idea of the DS being used in schools. First, because the thing is pretty expensive, and unless there's some sort of subsidizing of low income people, it wouldn't work, but also because the DS is fun. Maybe it's a bad idea to mix up the fun of video game playing with the work of school. And then there's the cheating. How fast would students start using the Pictochat feature of the DS to send one another answers to tests as well as crude drawings of wangs? What do you think? Would you like school better if you could take classes on your DS?
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majorlinux
If its a modified system, they would probably take all the "fun" out which might in-turn make the device cheaper...
IcemanMX
I'm surprised that Nintendo thought up of an idea to try to take over the world that Pinky and the Brain never thought of.
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poker909
Price is a non-issue as costs of many art and science classes (required supplies/lab costs) are higher than the cost of a DS. This is a great idea.
Lucifer6972
You know, I'm sure Japan's students are more moralized than us...oh yeah, you heard me, moralized, got a problem, wanna fight? LOL! :)
I'm with you Sjohnson on the consequences, I think there's no question but we know that's here in the states. Here in the states you can do anything nowadays, I'd like to think we are smart and responsible but if we give our children DS's, better watch out they don't hit the other students with it, LOL!! "He took mine teach, mines the one with the Transformers." LOL!! :)
I love this country...oh and I love Pinky and Brain. I see it sometimes on Gex, Dex, whatever is called, LOL!! :)
o_NIGHT_TRAIN_o
I don't like Nintendo.
MICHAEL541
lol.. i draw wangs when i pictochat with my friends..
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