The Nintendo DS is being used in a classroom Tokyo Joshi Gakuen school in Japan for writing and english.
By: Greg Kell
Published: Jun 28, 2008
Updated: Sep 2, 2010
While the Nintendo DS portable videogame device is banned in most schools, Tokya Joshi Gakuen in Japan doesn't see it that way.
Motoko Okubo, a junior high school teacher, has used the handheld DS and textbook software since May in weekly sessions focusing on vocabulary, penmanship and audio comprehension for teaching english.
"They've been using it at home playing games, so at first they were surprised they can use it at school," Okubo said.
Vice principal Junko Tatsumi says results so far have been encouraging in Japan's long struggle with English language education.
{slot15}"The students are really concentrating and have fun in gaining skills such as spelling," she said.
"Our school policy is English education should be fun."
Japan has around 15,000 middle and high schools and in 2000 launched reforms to create a more "relaxed" environment aimed at fostering creativity and reducing rote learning.
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