Reading, writing, and cybersecurity: Education for the digital age
Listening to Christopher Long describe teaching his subject makes parts of it sound like a breezy outdoor summer camp, not training for one of the most highly sought after, yet undertaught, skillsets in the country.
Capture the flag competitions and scavenger hunts are examples of what the fourth-year teacher of the course Cybersecurity Fundamentals calls “gamification” of his subject. But Mr. Long, a former network administrator who switched to teaching at South County High School in Lorton, Virginia, six years ago, knows that cybersecurity itself is no game.
“The tasks that they have to accomplish are things that if they get a job in cybersecurity, they’ll do all the time,” he says.
