Japanese students using DS in English classrooms

Forget the Wii. The DS is the real revolution in Japan, where students at the Tokyo’s Joshi Gakuen junior high school for girls are learning to spell in English using Paon Corp.’s English training DS software instead of the company’s textbooks. The school is getting free systems and software to serve as a trial run for the educational program, which has won over both school administrators and parents. A giggly class of 32 seventh-graders used plastic pens to spell words like “hamburger” and “c