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A new learning tool has been developed to advance students in various disciplines by leaps and bounds. If you want to be a great musician, mathematician, chess player, or typist, then you need to get Nun the Wiser. Nun the Wiser is not without controversy. The main component is a life-size plastic nun that wields a wooden yardstick, smacking students across the knuckles when they make a mistake. The plastic nun device receives its commands from the computer program via a USB connection. The educational software is available for PC and will include a variety of training and educational courses including one in video gaming. The punishing nun concept was a popular training system for hundreds of years. In the late 70s it was deemed as cruel and unusual corporal punishment and largely fell out of favor with society thanks in part to liberals, New Agers, and Wicca practitioners. “We know through exhaustive research that this education-thorough-punishment concept really works,” expounds Larry B. Gravy. “Kids just aren’t responding to the reward system anymore. There was a time when it was believed that positive reinforcement was the way to go, but kids are more ignorant today than at any other time in history, and I’m including the Amish in this as well,” Gravy states. “Nothing motivates like fear,” Gravy continues, “The reward for a piece played well on the piano is not getting hit by the ruler. Let’s face it, if people come to see you play the piano and you do nothing but screw up the songs, most people in the audience will want to hit you with sticks anyway. With Nun the Wiser you can get that over with in the practice room, and avoid making hundreds of people angry with you. As long as you please that mean plastic nun, you’ll do fine in life,” Gravy promises. We performed a hands-on with the typing and gaming software of Nun the Wiser and were surprised at just how shockingly violent the hits were. Bruising was almost immediate. It was getting difficult to type with my swollen fingers after three or four misspelled words. I instantly began seriously concentrating, not to get any more words wrong. I thought that I would fare better on the video game training. This program tests and trains various gaming skills such as puzzle-solving and eye-hand coordination. There’s no doubt you will become a better and more disciplined gamer, once your fingers heal. For added realism, the plastic nun has a haggard-looking face with a stern countenance, and emanates an odor that is a combination of mothballs and garlic. She is truly frightening and forceful, but it works. When it comes to talent, she’s raising the bar by bringing it down hard. *This article is presented as an exclusive Cheat Code Central feature titled “Are you dumb enough to believe this?” Please check back each Friday for the newest edition. |