"Children have always played alone, for example with dolls or train sets, but these activities required a certain level of imagination -- they stimulated their brains," said Lorna Redden, Save the Children's schools development manager. "That is not the case with modern computer games which do children's thinking for them and put them in their own little world."
To be able to really enjoy a game and immerse yourself into it you need as much imagination as it takes to read a book, or even more. In a book the thinking really is done for you, you read about someone and what happens to them, you have no control over any choices. In a videogame (The good ones at least) you have to think about what's going on, you need to solve puzzles, you need quick reactions, you definitely need imagination.
"That is not the case with modern computer games which do children's thinking for them and put them in their own little world."
How can you be put into your own little world without requiring a certain level of imagination. Bit of a condradiction there. These people really have no idea what they're on about, they're just using videogames as a scapegoat as we've seen so many people do before them. It will never happen but if they ever managed to outlaw videogames I bet the rise in thuggish behaviour would increase even more.
Bah! Just send them all a DS with Brain Training and then see what they think about videogames. They really do get owned by the head of the ECA too.