How Finland is preparing its citizens for a world swamped by fake news

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https://www.dandc.eu/en/article/finland-has-been-world-leader-media-literacy-many-years-children-young-kindergarten-age-are

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Finish education places focus on core subjects, competition and control.

"We place greater emphasis on general competencies than on testable knowledge".

I always found this a better way to actually learn, as opposed to just being "good at taking a test".

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Germany on the other hand manages to teach kids 5 years of french grammar and antiquated rules (subjunctive anyone) while completely neglecting that you can’t learn a language if you don’t focus on communication and comprehension…

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I frequently wonder how many American / Canadian differences can be chalked up to this single PSA that ran during the 90s:

https://youtu.be/NBfi8OEz0rA

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Knew it was the house hippo before clicking the link.

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one of the comments:

Canada makes the best PSAs

The workplace safety PSAs are amazing, and brutal as fuck.

I'm going to get married, but there won't be a wedding, because someone done fucked up, and I should look where I'm going when I carry this hot as fuck oIIIII *slip, *BANG AIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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I forgot about this commercial!! Wow

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what differences. Most provinces are acting like states now. Also, house hippos are real, unlike birds.

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I wish we could emulate this. Even on a small scale and just grow it but we have actual ghouls in control.

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We should all be following their example quickly. Interestingly, they say this in the article:

What we have done can’t easily be replicated in other countries, but the EU targets can serve as a guideline.

I'm not sure exactly why they're saying that it's hard to replicate what they've done - although considering how smart they are with infrastructure and education in their society, they might be talking about the amount of time and consensus it takes to achieve that.

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Its hard to replicate because it requires a shift in culture of multiple generations. The simple fact is Americans dont trust government or institutions and they are actively ignorant on most subjects and will not agree on anything.

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