There’s a Major Blindspot in Cybersecurity Education
We’re teaching students how to problem solve before we teach them how to problem see.
In July 2014, iPhone 4s in hand, I stood before a classroom of 15 high school sophomores and declared that touching glass on a screen to communicate with someone thousands of miles away was nothing short of magic. I got nothing but blank stares from my not yet captive audience. Needless to say, this was not quite the introduction I was hoping for.
Earlier in the day I had been mulling over how I would make these next eight weeks with the students matter. My job as a lecturer at this Georgetown University program was to use the allotted time — one hour each week over the summer — to get students excited about technology and position them for success at the start of the next school year. But I also had a more aspirational goal: I was hoping to address a gap I experienced in my own educational journey between learning how to see problems and how to solve them.
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