Here's two paragraphs I thought may be relevant to my essay, its from the Time website and is by Corey Mead who is an assistant professor of English at Baruch College, City University of New York and a pioneering researcher on video games and the military. The views expressed are solely his own.
"The Pentagon is using video games to infiltrate middle schools."
The military has long been at the forefront of the digital-curriculum movement, and it has for decades been the largest financer (by far) of educational technology. In fact, over the past century, the military has profoundly influenced educational institutions in the skills that are valued and taught, how students are evaluated and sorted, and the methods and modes of instruction. In that regard, the new era of cyberwar will inevitably determine how and what our children learn. But as state and federal education budgets are slashed in response to the collapsed economy and as the military strains to find cyber-qualified personnel, our schools and the military will undoubtedly join in an ever closer relationship.
But this interweaving of military technology, ideology and money poses a potential risk to students everywhere and should be critically examined by parents and educators alike. A military career is not a game. More to the point, the stealth recruitment and militarisation of young minds is not game, and it should not be treated as such by school officials in charge of guiding our children’s future.
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