UK Schools Getting S-M-R-T-er with NDS

Back when I was still in school, sitting behind a cramped desk, listening to a talking head yammer on about nothing of particular interest to me, it was a bit of a guilty pleasure to have my Game Boy tucked in front of me. It could be TMNT, Tetris, Mario, whatever. Playing with my Game Boy was much more enjoyable than history or arithmetic.

Inevitably, I’d get caught and the teacher would take away my prized gaming machine until the end of the day. These days, I’d imagine that kids haven’t changed all that much. They may have replaced the puke green Game Boy with the colorful antics of a Nintendo DS Lite, but the phenomenon is much the same. I guess some school in the UK has decided that they can’t possibly stop kids from playing video games, so they might as well embrace that passion.

England’s Clunbury Primary School has decided that they will provide their students with Nintendo DS Lites. While they won’t be zipping around in Mario Kart DS or jamming away on Guitar Hero: World Tour, the young ones can still get kind of a gaming fix through more educational titles. Header teacher Andrew Davies said that the DS is an “exciting and alternative way of approaching education.”

Kudos, old chap. Kudos.

Source: DS Fanboy

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