Finland has been ranked a world leader in media literacy for years. Children as young as kindergarten age are being taught to handle the disinformation they will encounter online. We talked to Kari Kivinen, the European Union Intellectual Property Office’s (EUIPO) education outreach expert. A former headmaster in Helsinki, he has contributed to shaping Finland’s media literacy education.
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…
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”.
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…