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Article: 3 R's and an Xbox; What does a video game like "Dance Dance Revolution" have to do with teaching writing? Plenty, according to a researcher who is using video games in the classroom.(VARIETY)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- October 6, 2005
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Byline: Allie Shah; Staff Writer
Rachel Brown's eyes stayed fixed on the wall in front of her, watching closely as the video image of a man dancing to the beat of "Brick House" demonstrated where to step next. She pursed her lips and followed his steps - the left, to the right, to the front, to the back. Then, on cue with the music, she jumped in the air, twisted and planted her feet so that she was standing sideways on the large square mat beneath her. "Perfect," the video game announced with words that projected on the wall.
She raised her arms triumphantly in the air, as the song and the game ended.
Brown is a seventh-grader at the Academy of Bioscience, a ...