Hazy correspondence
A friend of mine was struggling to complete an assignment and asked if I could help.
The question: Why would a business want critical information processing facilities to be inconspicuous?
The problem: It turns out that ‘critical information processing facilities’ is not the correct term for whatever the professor had in mind.
Try it yourself. Go to Google, type it in. You won’t find a single result that gives you an answer that’s even closely related to cybersecurity.
This highlights two important points:
If we’re not talking about the same thing—using the same words or concepts—how can we know we’re talking about the same things? We can’t.
If your students can’t find the answer they’re looking for given the information you’ve given them, how does it help them learn the concept, by going down a rabbit hole for the right answer? It doesn’t.
Vague communication only amounts to wasted time.