Objective

One of the trends I notice in adult education, especially in the way that I teach is that there are so many passwords to remember.

Reflective

This is very interesting to me because I have struggled through two semesters of students who just weren’t sure of what their passwords ever were. Insert mind on fire and stressed. It felt as if each day I had a few students going to the IT department for help on how to reset passwords, day after day and week after week. The passwords could not be saved on the computers because after they log out for the night, all data was wiped off the console. It made lesson plans hard, because you’re teaching time got cut down, by the many minutes taken up to just trying to get the students all on their emails or Moodle site.

Interpretive

I think the only way around this fiasco is to have some open conversations with the students about passwords, and what passwords are considered private and should be held tightly (like your banking password) and what passwords aren’t as important (your safety course your doing online). If we can separate out the very private ones, with the less private ones, we would be off to a great start. Now with all of our less worrisome passwords, we could use an app to save them. There are many apps that save your passwords so that you can pull them up whenever you need them by only remembering one ultimate password.

Decisional

Although these password managers seem really cool, there is still so much to learn. It this actually going to be easier for my students? Is having them written and locked in my office just as secure? Will the students even use these programs when they are done school? Will it work on a computer without an app in a browser instead? I do think the only way to learn something new is to try different things, so perhaps next year will be the pilot program for trying this.

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Van Der Kleut , Jennifer. (n.d.). Are Password Managers Secure. Norton. Retrieved May 27, 2022, from https://us.norton.com/internetsecurity-privacy-password-manager-security.html#