Health, Fake News and Teaching in Professional and Technological Trainning

Abstract

This article sought, through literature review, to present the advance of fake news and how misinformation and lack of prior knowledge affect the routine of individuals and interfere with the health of the population. Although health subjects are not part of the curriculum of many Educacao Profissional e Tecnologica (EPT) courses, it is important to question how certain events interfere in the school community and how the school and the teacher can use fake news in a didactic way with scientific knowledge, to train citizens with new competencies and skills that are in demand in the labor market today. The concern arises at the time of the pandemic, when people worldwide are learning to live with a new routine, imposed by COVID-19. We start from this contextualization to propose the epistemology of the active methodology, based on projects, which considers as presuppositions for learning, real situations having life and events as context and this allows the student to research and reflect, leading to the development of new competencies and skills.