Why Children Need to Be Taught Data Literacy

Traditional literacy won’t help children navigate the age of social media

Ramshankar Yadhunath
Age of Awareness
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5 min readJul 22, 2020

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When Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1990, he had also laid out the foundations for modern age social media. Some of you might like to call it the “Age of Information”, for obvious reasons. But, I see this as the “Age of Misinformation”.

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Ramshankar Yadhunath
Age of Awareness

Analytics Engineer | MSc Applied Data Science, LSE | All opinions are my own.