Finland consistently ranks as Europe's most media-literate country, emphasizing critical thinking and media analysis in its education system to combat misinformation.
Helsinki — 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 asked her 14- to 15-year-old students, who all promptly raised their hands during a class at a school in the capital Helsinki in November.
'Who produced the material that you watch, what do you produce yourself, and whether you have an ethical responsibility,' Varmola tells Agence France-Presse (AFP) as she lists the critical questions to ask when living in a global information environment increasingly characterized by misleading information.By teaching its citizens how to critically engage with media content to debunk hoaxes, misinformation and disinformation, as well as to produce content of their own, Finland wants to promote media literacy as a civic skill.The Nordic country was among the first in Europe to outline a national policy for media literacy in 2013. Updated in 2019, this policy ensures that media literacy is integrated into subjects throughout educational levels, from early childhood to upper secondary classes.To enhance skills among adults and the elderly, libraries and nongovernmental organizations are offering courses. 'Media literacy is essential to building societal resilience, and Finland realized this quite early on,' Education Minister Anders Adlercreutz told AFP. 'As traditional media is responsible for less and less of the information we receive, it's especially important to be able to critically evaluate what you read,' he added. 'Not immune to influence' Considered a forerunner, Finland has been ranked first on the European Media Literacy Index every year since it was first published in 2017 by the Bulgarian Open Society Institut
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