Week 12: Open forum find two articles that to discuss

For Week 12 the task was to find two articles that you wanted two discuss in class either thgat will be the focus of your essay or just something that interest you 

so the first Article i found that i wanted to talk about is this one i found in the guardian online website the title: Ethical Gaming can it be a source of good? the link of the article is below

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/12/ethical-video-gaming-games-for-change-festival

in the article it discuss the use of games in a much more serious content than what people's interpretations of games are and wanting to push the boundaries of games and show the potential of what games and the messages they can convey to the audience instead of the the perception that still exist with games being childish, violent and shallow,

Asi Burak quotes in the article "People understand that games are powerful, but they're also scared of this power," says Burak. "We need to change the perception that all games are shallow, violent and childish, because they are not."

Minecraft has already started to be implemented in schools academic learning as its been proven t help children learning process using tools that the have a strong affiliation to with helping in computer programming or even build and structural how things work its a useful teaching tool. 

and they are powerful tools and the unquie thing about games is that it can immerse you in them and give you information or teach you something instead of being used to entertain like in Dead Island where the objective is to survive the Zombie Apocalypse by killing any zombie in your path. But lets flip that what if the game is about you surviving an actual ethical situation say your in Law Enforcement You are a rookie officer assigned to a training officer for the first six months of your employment. The training officer is a 20-year veteran and is a close friend pf thee Assistant Chief of Police and the brother-in-law of the Watch Commander. The third day that you are working with him you respond to a burglary call at a local convenience store. It is 2:30 am and the manager has been notified. You are directed to wait 30-35 minutes for his arrival. A short time later you observe your partner take a soda, candy and a bag of chips. He consumes the soda and chips. When the manager arrives, the two of you depart. What, if anything, should you do?
 

probably not the best example in the world but it would be interesting to gauge what the person would do and doing it in a game environment also the justification could be that it helps the trainee gain experience if a situation like that cropped up what would the right course of action to take, without causing any harm. 

The potential of using games as teaching devices is well known but its still an interesting research topic looking it in terms of  is games mature and ready to tackling more serious ethical issues like rape?