more video games less books at school summary

This aticle is about how the school's system is implementing the use of video games instead of books. They plan to make and educational video games that will help students by being fun and educational at the same time. This method will make students focus on the fun side of it but they will be learning at the same time. But, there is also a controversy whether life is a video game or what? I mean kids wont be getting real life situations by playing video games. So, video games engage children with continuous action, a concept known as "enthrallment," that raises the threshold for engagement, Freedman said. "It's the equivalent of giving kids a lot of sweets and then wondering why they don't want to eat regular food," he said. Several studies have shown that engaging through a lot of video games corresponds to higher rates of ADD.