#readwise # How Finland Is Teaching a Generation to Spot Misinformation ![rw-book-cover](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2022/12/09/multimedia/00xp-finlandmisinfo-2-ec6a/00xp-finlandmisinfo-2-ec6a-facebookJumbo.jpg) ## Metadata - Author: [[Jenny Gross]] - Full Title: How Finland Is Teaching a Generation to Spot Misinformation - URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/10/world/europe/finland-misinformation-classes.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare ## Highlights - A typical lesson that Saara Martikka, a teacher in Hameenlinna, Finland, gives her students goes like this: She presents her **eighth graders** with news articles. Together, they **discuss: What’s the purpose of the article? How and when was it written? What are the author’s central claims?** ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gq750hd651yjgcgwhdmmcpzz)) - **Finland ranked No. 1 of 41 European countries on resilience against misinformation for the fifth time in a row** in a [survey](https://osis.bg/?p=4243&lang=en) published in October by the Open Society Institute in Sofia, Bulgaria. **Officials say Finland’s success is not just the result of its strong education system, which is one of the best in the world, but also because of a concerted effort to teach students about fake news. Media literacy is part of the national core curriculum starting in preschool.** ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gq753xww45t30kqfga8c2sx8))