p2pnet news view | Games:- The University of Houston has a new class this fall, says NPR News.

PEB 4197 — the Nintendo Wii Performance class.

It’s, “converted a racquetball court into a video arcade of sorts, with 10 Wii stations,” says the story. “Students will earn one credit hour for playing Wii for 20 to 30 minutes twice a week.”

Says Asylum, “PEB 4197 is listed simply as ‘online aerobics activities.’ Which sounds oxymoronic … ”

“Lamely,” Charles Layne, chairman of the department of health and human performance at the university, “said the emphasis is on fitness activities like yoga, as opposed to the sports like tennis and bowling,” adds the post.

Layne says he and program director Randi Weintraub, “came up with the idea nine months ago, soon after the release of Wii Fit. Layne’s department is devoted to providing physical activity opportunities to students,” says NPR.

“With Wii, he says, the department could try to capture more students.”

And why not?

Apple, Microsoft and whole slew of other corporations whose only interest is in keeping shareholders happy have managed to weasel ‘product’ into classrooms, disguised as teaching aids.

And Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music’s RIAA is actually giving ‘advice’ to teachers on the best way to ‘teach’ intellectual property and copyright law to little kids.

At least waving a Wii at school has potential health benefits.

(Cheers, Sarah)

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NPR News – Students Get In Shape And Get Credit For Wii Class, September 10, 2009
Asylum – Wii Makes the Curriculum at University, September 14, 2009
little kids – RIAA back-to-school steaming pile of poo, September 14, 2009

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