Edutainment

With all the great things people have been doing to engage audiences on the internet, I wonder if we are going too far with Edutainment. Edutainment mixes education and entertainment as a way of teaching. While I think there is great value in this method, are we taking all the work out of learning for our students? Not everything you need to learn will always be presented in a fun and entertaining way. Eventually we need to buckle down and read through some less-than-thrilling texts, and in the workplace most of the real-life research that needs to be done is rarely flashy and entertaining. Are we overlooking the value of hard work, of pouring through volumes of books at the library in exchange for typing out your question into Google and having all the answers come to you sometimes via YouTube? Where do we draw the line between engaging students and making them lazy?