Ken Berman

Birmingham, Uk

Teacher

Phishing will continue to work as long as we believe that teaching people about IT means learning how to make text bold and how to put formulas in spreadsheets. Too many of our basic IT "key skills" are based on which buttons/menu items to click in Microsoft software and far too few on general principles and e-safety.

Even the ECDL, supposedly THE must have basic IT literacy qualification, barely covers use of the internet, as opposed to using IE (not the same thing!).

It's time we stopped teaching only skills and started teaching processes and critical thinking - "why have I been sent this e-mail for a bank I don't have an account with?" for example.