Different Times Different Methods

I'm old school.
I prefer my CDs, LPs and even cassettes to my i-Pod.
(In fact, I only have one song on my i-Pod and I forget what that is.)
I prefer hand written letters to e-mail.
I prefer real tiddies to silicon implants.
I prefer short hair to weaves.
I prefer hard back books to web pages.
I prefer humans to the Internet.
I was raised in an era when one was stimulated through more tactile experiences.

But kids today may be hardwired differently.
Most of today's children are accustomed to devices that were thought to be the wishful thinking of science fiction movies to an earlier generation.
Many of today's children don't really know what being poor is.
When we said we were poor - we meant that we had no food in the house (Not even that nasty block of fake government cheese.).
Today's' kids mean that they have run out of Hot Pockets.
When we said we needed new shoes - we meant that our shoes "were talking" (The soles were beginning to come apart from the body of the shoe and flapped when we would walk.) or that we had worn a hole in our shoes.
Today's kids mean that they don't have a pair of shoes which exactly matches the color of the underwear poking out from the top of their sagging pants.
Many of today's kids aren't really poor - not even the poor ones.

Many of today's kids have never experienced recess or P.E or have been on a sports team.
(Many parents didn't wish to harm their children's fragile self esteem.)
Many of today's children are those who grew up in the entitlement era where some magical genie seemed to provide that which any child would wish.
Many of today's kids don't understand the work that came before the rewards which they so casually enjoy.
But this is "progress".

In this era we need a different incentive or method of teaching.
For some children, using the old outdated textbooks would be akin to us having had to use a slate and chalk in our schooling.
Since many children have more stimulation in their bedrooms than an entire family had in a an entire home a generation ago - learning through video games seems like a obvious answer.
http://www.parade.com/news/2009/12/20-can-video-games-teach-kids.html