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<p>Hi lovely people!</p>
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<p>I hope everyone is having a good start to 2018.</p>
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<p>I'm trying to collect nuggets of "big ideas that aren't
explicitly understood by beginners about computers or digital
security" before <b>next Tuesday, the 16th.</b> <br>
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<p>You can think back to the "aha" moments you had when you were
first learning about computer science, or teachable moments where
you've made something click for someone else. Were there any "big
picture ideas" that gave you a helpful mental framework of how all
these other tips and ideas fit together?</p>
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<p>The goal is to provide an easier pathway for non-technical
trainers to know how all these disparate ideas fit together, which
I'd eventually like to include in the Security Education Companion
(perhaps in the Security Education 101 articles, as a Big Ideas
section). I would like to make things that are implicitly
understood, but not communicated by experts, more explicit to the
people they're teaching. For you curriculum nerds, I'm thinking of
concept-based teaching.</p>
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<p>Have any interest in helping me in my quest? Know of any such big
ideas? Shoot an email! I'm happy to compile and share back all the
ideas as an email to the group.<br>
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<p>Some examples of big ideas (and by all means, feel free to
improve on these off-the-cuff examples):</p>
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<p>+ The cloud is just someone else's computer.<br>
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<p>+ Things that don't fit in the visual of a "computer", like
phones, are computers.</p>
<p>+ When you move or upload a file, you're making a copy of it.</p>
<p>+ Software updates are important because they often address known
security exploits.</p>
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<p>Gratefully,</p>
<p>Soraya<br>
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Learn more about digital security at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://ssd.eff.org/">https://ssd.eff.org/</a>.
Want to teach digital security? Check out the Security Education Companion at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://sec.eff.org/">https://sec.eff.org/</a>.
Check out tools for encrypting the web at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.eff.org/encrypt-the-web">https://www.eff.org/encrypt-the-web</a></pre>
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