Leitura crítica no ensino fundamental: um trabalho de leitura a partir das notícias falsas no meio virtual

Abstract

The new information and communication technologies produced revolutionary devices that contributed to globalization and technological expansion and generated new forms of social interaction, especially in the virtual universe, also called cyberspace. In this universe of infinite communication possibilities, fake news emerges, influencing cyberspace and affecting cyberculture. They spread very quickly on social networks like WhatsApp and Facebook, causing misinformation, reputational destruction and even lives. The impact of fake news has been so strong that socially responsible sectors of the mainstream media are developing ways - including the use of artificial intelligence - to mitigate its effects. In this sense, the present research sought, from the unveiling of the production chain and dissemination of fake news in the virtual environment, to stimulate and develop digital literacy and the increase of reading proficiency of students of the 9th grade of the Secondary School of E.E. Dona Quita Pereira in Montes Claros - MG, school where the researcher teaches. The intervention implemented from the research project, which aimed at literacy resulted in critical and citizen development of the students involved in the research, since the debates, workshops and other teaching-learning strategies proposed highlighted the importance of a responsible positioning towards to the fake news phenomenon.