CNN has a short article about a school district in Wilmington, NC that has spent about $20,000 on Sony Playstations (hopefully, they meant PS2s here). They got, according to the article, 23 machines.
They must have one heck of a game library, with $15000+ left over for games. Can I come over to play?
The most amusing thing to me, though, was this snippet.
But not all the teachers took to the video games — one became so flustered that she didn’t want use them in class, principal Sharon Sand said.
Maybe they were just pretending so that they could take home some of those games. Nevertheless, students stepped in to save the day!
So on Wednesday, students gave advice on plugging in the machines, using the software and navigating the buttons.
Bravo, students! This just go to show you that teachers will respect student expertise!
(Can I get some of that federal money for videogames? I’m sure I could tie Dragon Quest VIII in with the colligative properties … somehow!)