In a commentary, SMU Assistant Professor of Information Systems (Education) Subhajit Datta discussed the growing role of data, algorithms and information in our lives and how schools and professional training programmes need to augment the traditional education toolkit around the three Rs of reading, writing and arithmetic to include specific skills that will prepare today's students for tomorrow's world.
[Algorithmic thinking and informational awareness should be included in school curricula and in training courses for working professionals, says the writer. Algorithmic thinking is about devising sequences of instructions to solve specific problems, while informational awareness is the ability to extract the essence from different types of data, often by applying appropriate algorithms. PHOTO: REUTERS]