In today's world, one thing you don't hear every day is that learning is fun. For some it may be, but many children are not so enthusiastic about learning. What if there was a way to make learning fun for kids? Well it exists, it's called gamification. According to Gabe Zichermann, an expert on educational games, gamifiction is the process of using thought and game mechanics to engage the audience. Although it has been said that video games cause laziness and violence in children, we now know that video games can be a significant learning tool in early childhood development. Research has shown that video games help children with multitasking skills and can also increase fluid intelligence, which is the intelligence we use to solve problems (Zichermann). Video games might be more beneficial than we thought. In today's society video games have a bad reputation and negative connotation because research has stated that video games promote violence. Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill by Dave Grossman and Gloria DeGaetano is a book about the negative effect the entertainment industry has on children: "We shouldn't be surprised that half of the video games played by a typical seventh grader are violent." (1). Well, violent games do not make a child violent, however if you already have a violent child, then violent play could make them even more violent (Zichermann). It has also been said that video games can distract children and cause antisocial problems. Dr. Dimitri Christakis of the UW says, “Children accustomed to games may find the real world disappointing and unstimulating.” This means that children will be out of touch with what is happening around them because they are too consumed with video games. Even though video games have a bad reputation, more and more researchers are ... middle of paper ... ...Me-based learning: it's not just digital natives who are restless." Educause Review March 2006: 1-16 ProQuest. Web. 14 December 2011. Gee, James Paul. "Learning by Design: Good Video Games as Learning Machines." Introduction". Introduction. Stop Teaching Our Children to Kill: A Call to Action Against TV, Movies, and Video Games Violence. New York: Crown, 1999. Print.How Games Make Kids Perf. Ted.com, November 2011. Web . December 14, 2011. .Steinberg, Scott You Smarter - CNN." Featured Articles from CNN. January 31, 2011. Web. December 14. 2011. .