My point was simpler: that I don't think the au courant media young people like, lend themselves to the material that students will have to master to become competent at thought, rational analysis, and the skills necessary for citizenship and a successful adult life. These technologies come, after all, from the world of entertainment: Hollywood, gaming, comic strips, commercial art.
Graphical arts are all about conveying impressions, not about thought. So they're great for entertainment and advertising (which means, literally, turning people's attention to something), but as vehicles for understanding law, mathematics, or logic, or any of a great many other subjects, they just don't offer comparable worth to the ability to read for comprehension -- and comprehension itself. (On second thought, math might be more amenable than the other disciplines I mention to alternative presentational styles using graphics, but the basic argument remains valid.)
I am not denying the value of the skills that gaming graphics can develop and hone in young people: combat skills, for example, or driving skills. The armed services have discovered the usefulness of gaming to hand-eye coordination and fast threat analysis, and even police departments use video training methods now for their mandatory, make-or-break "shoot/don't-shoot" training. I've seen one of those videotapes and they're very relevant and valuable.
Nevertheless I don't see how graphically-based materials can help with subjects like history and law.
I don't envy you your task of educating your children in an age that is hostile to their education and dedicated to programming their politics instead. It was said that, 50 years ago, education was oriented toward helping students to settle on a trade or profession so they could work and earn. Nowadays they are propagandized instead to be good little socialists and see Obama as the Second Coming. I wish you well, I really do.
http://www.rainbowresource.com/product/Biblical+Economics+in+Comics/016027/1238761670-884481
Best Comic I’ve read (which use words to explain the factual evidence, and pictures to both move the story line and to illustrate better the subjects). Explains Biblical principles of Economics with Biblical verses right next to it, and as conservative as you get. Me and my friend wanted to take this and put it on the internet because it explains economics in the basest way possible, at the same time extolling the reasons never to trust the government. It includes very relevant sections (even though it’s like from the seventies... at least), like why not to “save” the auto industry, price fixing, minimum wage, etc. It also starts from the simplest concepts to the most complicated, explaining that the basis is you should get what you worked for, no more no less. The only problem with it is that it get a little boring by the middle (I’ve never made through all of it, just more of the illustrated areas, it goes more into words later, and I have issues with small font) but in separate tracks could do amazing things... (I’ve just convinced myself I need to scan this in, or at least certain parts, as I sit here typing a Fair Use paper) I would recommend you read this before you say that. I would say however, this book and my friend are the reason I’m sitting here right now (That and I was actually taught in high school, one of the nicer reasons to live in a red area).
Again, I would really recommend you get this book, you might learn something :D, I know I did, and I’ll use it to teach my brother.