Finland is consistently ranked as Europe’s most media literate country, and the skills needed to spot online hoaxes are on the school curriculum amid a boom of misinformation and disinformation campaigns.
“Who knew what a troll was before?” literature and Finnish language teacher Saara Varmola asks her 14- to 15-year-old students, who all promptly raise their hands during a class at a Helsinki school.
“Who produced the material that you watch, what do you produce yourself and whether you have an ethical responsibility,” Varmola says later, as she lists the critical questions to ask when living in a global information environment increasingly characterised by misleading information.By teaching its citizens how to critically engage with media content to debunk hoaxes, mis- and disinformation, as well as to produce content of their own, Finland wants to promote media literacy as a civic skill.Students attend a class on media literacy in a Helsinki school. Photo: AFP
The Nordic country was among the first in Europe to outline a national policy for media literacy in 2013.
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