What Needs To Be Learned?
Suppose that you wanted to teach an individual to recognize English-language phishing emails. Write down a few features (based on the linked website, your own experience, or other sources) that you think would help someone classify an email as “phishing attempt or not” based on the text of the email.
Now, imagine that you are going to sit down with your tutee to teach them how to recognize English-language phishing emails. Write two sentences describing where you would start your instruction if…
- Your tutee was another member of your warmup group.
- Your tutee was a fluent English speaker but had never used email.
- Your tutee was a regular email user but spoke no English.
- Your tutee spoke no English and had never seen a computer. Which of these four scenarios would require the most “learning effort?” Which would require the least?
© Phil Chodrow, 2025