I fully agree but I would even go deeper than this. In my opinion, Data Literacy is based on critical thinking. Developing critical thinking is primordial in a democracy but it only works if citizens have the curiosity to learn.
Schools should teach "HOW to learn" and not necessarily "WHAT to learn". I mean, until I arrived in college, Internet didn't exist so teaching something specific to kids that would be useful in their adult lives is a bit irrelevant (and pretty much a case of fortune-telling). What should be taught is the curiosity to always learn about the world around us throughout our life.
With a curiosity to learn, people will self-teach themselves but if you don't have that curiosity, you'll always accept information that agrees with your values in the most simplistic way and never ask "but why?".
I fully agree but I would even go deeper than this. In my opinion, Data Literacy is based on critical thinking. Developing critical thinking is primordial in a democracy but it only works if citizens have the curiosity to learn.
Schools should teach "HOW to learn" and not necessarily "WHAT to learn". I mean, until I arrived in college, Internet didn't exist so teaching something specific to kids that would be useful in their adult lives is a bit irrelevant (and pretty much a case of fortune-telling). What should be taught is the curiosity to always learn about the world around us throughout our life.
With a curiosity to learn, people will self-teach themselves but if you don't have that curiosity, you'll always accept information that agrees with your values in the most simplistic way and never ask "but why?".