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Recognizing fake news now a required subject in California schools (www.pleasantonweekly.com)
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[–] 23 points 2 years ago (1 child)

It's a required subject in Finland

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/10/world/europe/finland-misinformation-classes.html https://www.nordicpolicycentre.org.au/media_literacy_education_in_finland https://finland.fi/life-society/educated-decisions-finnish-media-literacy-deters-disinformation/

If Finland didn't educate its children to spot media bullshit, it would be overrun by Russian media bullshit, which devotes no small amount of energy to the task of convincing Finns that they'd be better off as a Russian vassal state.

For that matter, if the US did educate its children to spot media bullshit, our voters wouldn't fall for such stupid nonsense on the regular

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    It's been a few years since I read about this, but Finland also has one of the (if not the) best public education system in the world.

    Apparently a couple decades ago (can't remember exactly how long), Finland was rated very poorly in some worldwide study on public education.

    Fellow Americans are going to have trouble grasping this, but that prompted Finland to actually change how their public education system works from the ground up. They did a ton of research and within a few years, they were climbing up that list. It really did not take them very long to correct their very poor public education system, and get to the top.

    Finland is obviously much smaller and less populous than the US, but I still believe we can learn a lot from their example.

    Instead, we're going the opposite way... "School choice," vouchers, charter schools. All that bullshit meant to erode our public education system. Gotta privatize everything!

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