Videogames pushed in class

VIDEOGAME machines, long seen by parents as a formidable enemy in the battle to get their children to study, are advancing into the classroom.

In a growing number of Japanese cities, teachers hoping to engage children born in the fast-moving digital age are using game machines such as the Nintendo DS, the hugely popular double-screen handheld console, to draw in and hold students.

The strategy seems to be working in one Tokyo classroom, where students come for extra-curricular maths lessons each Saturday morning.

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