O ensino de ciências frente à disseminação de fake news

Abstract

This work had as its theme the false and unverified scientific information that is disseminated on the internet and how the science teacher can use this to plan his classes. The work applied online questionnaires to verify the students’ knowledge about the definition of science, the scientific method, and the students' attitudes towards out of context and wrong scientific information and terms that are transmitted on the internet. The questionnaire demonstrated that students see science as the study of nature and everything that involves it, this study being in-depth and seen by most students as isolated and concrete, as it is derived from experiments that test a theory or hypothesis. Most of the interviewees studied or heard about scientific method and this proved to be important considering that the questionnaire responses showed that students tend to check the information that is considered scientific in the network consulted with family, teachers and research tools in the Internet. The work suggests that teachers can be the guide for students to be able to identify, question and correct fake news in the area of science.