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How can we boost students’ data literacy?
“I truly believe that data literacy is literacy in the Information Age. Increasingly, we are inundated with conflicting claims about products, medical treatments, the weather—you name it—and it’s tough to make the right decision. To make a rational, optimal choice requires us to be data literate—to be able to understand the nature of how data is collected and visualized in a variety of different formats.”
By Matt Wilkins (SAi Resident)
Published on Edutopia on Nov 23, 2022 ‘
Read the full article titled “Boosting Students’ Data Literacy”
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