Game consoles remain classroom rarity

A seventh-grader at Tokyo's Joshi Gakuen all-girl junior high school gets a response to her answer and is advised to do it again on a screen of Nintendo DS game console during an English class in June. The portable video game machine is used as a key teaching tool at the Japanese school. In the United States, the Wii game system and others, including the Nintendo DS and Sony PSP handheld systems, are welcome as a teaching tool in very few schools, less than 1 percent, according to one estimate. But that may be starting to change.

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