Gaming in the Classroom: Nintendo DSi may become a teaching tool in Japan

In Japan, school students may soon be encouraged to bring their Nintendo gaming handhelds to class. That's because the video game giant is working with telecommunications company NTT on a system that will help youngsters, especially those with hearing or learning disabilities, keep track of their lessons using a Nintendo DSi system.

With the technology that's in development, everything the teacher tells their class is translated from speech into text and uploaded to a cloud-based server. It's then pushed out to DSi systems running a special program made by Nintendo, which saves everything as notes for reading along with and future reference.

The system is currently being tested at schools in rural Tottori Prefecture, and on the island of Okinawa. NHK has a video (in Japanese) showing the system in action. There's no mention if Nintendo has also come up with a way to prevent students from using their handhelds to play games when they should be studying.

[via Joystiq]

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