The Nordic country is helping students learn about spotting false information. Is there space in the Irish curriculum to do the same?
Students learn about identifying misinformation in class in Hameenlinna, Finland . The Nordic country is testing new ways to teach students about propaganda. Photograph: Vesa Laitinen/New York Timesregularly ranks as a world leader in media literacy, with its population well equipped to deal with misinformation, disinformation and many of the threats the digital age poses to democracy.
“Basic elements lead into understanding. Then at a later age, when you’re a teenager, you start to make news articles and video news. You can make a script, and you learn to understand the selection process that journalists have to . A teacher at a school in Hameenlinna, Finland, educates students about misinformation. Photograph: Vesa Laitinen/New York Times
The Reuters Institute’s Digital News Report for 2024 lists Finland as the country with the highest level of overall trust in news . In the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development , it is among the highest-ranking countries for levels of public trust. Nina Penttinen, counsellor of education at the Finnish National Agency for Education, believes accountability is crucial.
“Before AI, I think that was the case,” Penttinen says. “If there were, let’s say, different political agencies making propaganda, there usually was a problem with the language that you could quite easily it was not made by a Finnish person. Dr Eileen Culloty, deputy director at the DCU Institute for Media, Democracy and Society, points out the difficulties Ireland would face in introducing media literacy to schools.
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