As the use of smartphones grows in popularity with school children, educators are struggling with ways to teach young people how to recognize and handle the potential dangers they could face, and a smartphone game app called "Soul Negotiator" could be the answer teachers are looking for.
Developed by mobile game maker Gree Inc. in cooperation with a professor of education, the app teaches young users how to handle themselves when using smartphones through game play. With the app, children are asked to play one of 10 different storylines simulating situations they might find themselves confronted with, such as child pornography, Internet addiction, account hacking and online defamation.
Players are asked to answer multiple-choice questions as the story progresses about how they should react to avoid trouble. Based on their answers, the player's character will end up either in a happy, normal or bad situation.
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