Teaching Social Engineering. Thing to Keep in Mind

you.com AI responded with the following list of how people learn:
Spatial Thinkers  – Visualize relationships and mentally “map” information
Experiential Learners  – Learn by doing (trial, error, iteration)
Sequential Thinkers  – Prefer logical, step-by-step processes
️Visual Learners  – Diagrams, color-coding, visuals
Social Learners  – Dialogue, feedback, collaboration
Reflective Learners  – Need time to process internally

It is important to know how people learn.

I have heard this in different ways as well.

Let's broaden this into  how one learns like on website Avado:

You may have heard of the idea that we all respond best to different styles of learning. That is exactly what the seven learning styles theory supports. All of the styles capture an individual strength that likely helps a person retain information more effectively. They each focus on one of the five senses or involve a social aspect. This theory is popular because, by finding an individual learner’s style and tailoring teaching to it, it was thought their efficiency could be improved. The 7 styles of the theory are:

• visual
• kinaesthetic
• aural
• social
• solitary
• verbal
• logical

However, more recent studies have debunked this theory as an effective way of teaching and highlighted it as a neuromyth. This Guardian article says, ‘Such neuromyths create a false impression of individuals’ abilities, leading to expectations and excuses that are detrimental to learning in general, which is a cost in the long term.’

In other words, attempting to put learners into boxes and trying to only give them material that matches their “style” isn’t going to make them retain information any better. Most people benefit from a range of teaching techniques, and utilising different learning methods can actually improve learners’ adaptability.

Nevertheless, it’s certainly true that there are a variety of learning methods people respond to. So, just for fun, we’ve produced 7 different explanations of the 7 styles, each using techniques that learners of that style should find most useful.

Have a look through each one, and ask yourself: do you find them all equally engaging? Is there one (or more) that you prefer above the others? Maybe you have your own learning techniques that aren’t covered by any of the learning styles. Or perhaps you find one style more useful for this exercise, but when learning German verbs or mathematical formulae you know you prefer another? How effectively we learn isn’t just affected by the medium, but the content too.

While the 7 styles theory isn’t going to give you your one definitive style, you might still pick up a few useful techniques.

Even if these methods or techniques are not 100% accurate one can see that every person may learn a bit ‘better’ with certain ways of learning.

 

Let’s break this down into an attempted simpler breakdown(check this site for more on this):

Visual (similar to “a picture is worth a thousand words”) reading etc.

Auditory  – i.e. hearing and learning by listening

Tactile – this is why some people take notes – it seems to help when one takes notes a learning by doing method.

So if we know this simpler method (Visual/Auditory/Tactile) what to do with this info?

For one create security policies with some images. Maybe create a way for some to listen to the policy with a text to speech program. probably the only useful item out of all this is to encourage people to figure out how they best learn themselves and just include more images.

I will be creating more security policies and place them in my shop.

 

Posing grok the question of contrasting the three

 

 

I used some of these principles and added examples with images in a security policy on my shop: ClickFix Security Policy addon

I am continually adding to my security policies in the shop and will update with posts here as well.