This paper presents a Brazilian public school project that uses frames, narratives, and critical pedagogy to teach students how fake news works from the inside. From analyzing “electoral fraud” frames to decoding vaccine conspiracies, students learn to dismantle manipulation through language.

400 points by Cad_Lin 9 hours ago on reddit | 7 comments

DocumentExternal6240 | 8 hours ago

“The overall objective of the project is to train students from public schools in the city of João Pessoa to identify and deconstruct misinformation texts, popularly called fake news, through reading, text production and linguistic analysis workshops. In this article, we present the contributions of the theoretical framework of Cognitive Linguistics - CL.”

“With this project, we expect the following results and impacts: 1) publication of the data generated in articles, book chapters, podcasts and other media; 2) production of teaching material that applies CL concepts in the analysis of disinformation and that offers methodological guidelines for work in LC classes in basic education; and 3) contributions to the strengthening of public education policies to combat disinformation.”

This is certainly a worthy goal!

EH_Operator | 7 hours ago

Seriously some of the most intriguing and encouraging pedagogy coming out today is from Brazil and Cad-Lin. Really amazing stuff

Jorping | 7 hours ago

I hope it works

Desperate-Today-358 | 6 hours ago

Oh noooo, critical thinking!!!

: paulsteinway | an hour ago
Isn't that part of woke ideology?

vanderZwan | 3 hours ago

Can it be turned into a MOOC? That is, a massive open online course? Because I have more than a few family members that can use this training.

Topher9q | 7 minutes ago

I know a few people who would really benefit from this class