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Uniforms. Tighter schedules. Removal of cellphones. Could school possibly get any worse? We’re sure it could, but the higher-ups at Nintendo want to change up schools in a positive way. By introducing their products into them, of course! We have previously heard of Dance Dance Revolution being used in select Physical Education programs in order to get students to become active when they otherwise wouldn’t, but we have yet to hear of any school making a sweeping measure to accept gaming consoles as a part of their teachings.

Shigeru Miyamoto, who has a hand in some of Nintendo’s most famous titles, recently confessed that he is working hard to turn Nintendo’s DS line of handheld gaming machines into tools for schools. The DS already has a nice line of software titles that help users learn, and he thinks that this could really be a huge benefit to schools looking for alternative ways to educate students of a new generation. The company has already managed to get them into Japanese schools (junior high and elementary levels) starting in the new school year, but that’s obviously not enough.

http://hothardware.com/News/Nintendo-Plans-DS-Invasion-In-Schools-The-Future-Of-Learning-Is-Gaming/