Brave New Pedagogy in Schleswig-Holstein

For a quick peek into the German campus of the Brave New World, check out this post from the website of the “the state representative for political education” in Schleswig-Holstein. Many thanks to Hellequin GB for the translation:

Workshops for school classes

In the workshops “Crime Scene Social Networks: Conspiracy myths and fake news on the Internet” we want to sensitize young people to fake news and conspiracy myths and teach them how to deal with them confidently. Together with the journalist and blogger Carsten Janz, students discuss how conspiracy stories work and how you can deal with them and fake news.

The project is scheduled to last two years and includes 76 school workshops and four teacher training courses. The call for proposals for the workshops in the second half of the 2023/2024 school year is currently running.

Afterword from the translator:

This looks to me like trust in the established media and state institutions has sunk so low that in their desperation they are pulling out all the stops and giving up all restraint. They want to bombard students with courses and “learning materials” designed to condition them to believe what politicians and mainstream media say, and to dismiss doubters as “conspiracy theorists”. Why do I have the feeling that those pupils who successfully complete this course will raise their right arm and shout “Sieg Heil” at the “graduation” ceremony?

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