Lacey alejandro response to second question on Johnsons book

Johnson likes to challenge conventional wisdom in his writing -- that video games are bad for you, in this case. In at least 12 sentences, argue against an aspect of pop culture that is generally considered "good" or "bad." Use specific examples to support your point.

            Although, the average person would say “oh video games are bad for kids, have read a book instead,” this is not the case, it’s actually almost the complete opposite. Now I am not saying that books are bad and video games are good nor am I saying the opposite, but what I am saying is that neither video games nor books are bad, they are both good. Though in many cases actually, playing video games can be much better than reading a book. For example, popular culture critics judge video games by the content of the video game, not how or by the way it is played, which usually challenge the players to solve problems. Video Games are just seen as something that rots the brains of young kids and hurts them. When actually by keeping video games away from kids, you are hurting them because they can be so valuable.  Video games also require that players improve their skill sets and master certain levels before they can actually move on to the next level. This is testing the person’s skills and mind sets in the game, and helping them to learn new skills, and also to not give up, so they can get to the next level, which is a valuable skill to know. Johnson’s points, much like the ones I have made, are very true in the fact of video games being good for someone, it teaches them things a book cannot teach. This quote from the article “It’s not what you are thinking about when you’re playing the game, it’s the way you are thinking that matters,” (Johnson, 493). This is something that is shown in every video game you play because yes you think about things when playing, but how you are thinking about them is what matters. In a book you can’t really just think of how you are going to read the next sentence or how you are going to do something, because it is basically down for you, but in a video game, you have to think about what you will do next or how to do something. The way you think of it, is very important because it could cost you the game in a sense, but how you thought about it, is something you can use to think about other things as well. In a video game, you can be yourself and do what you want, while in a book, you can’t do any of that, it shows your true colors and personality in a sense. Johnson talks a lot about how Video games gives you a different mindset,  valuable skills, and coordination, things a book can’t do. Therefore, Video games are not such a bad thing, they are actually very good, just as good, or maybe even better than a book someone would read.