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FACT-CHECKING AS AN EMERGING PROPOSAL FOR MEDIA EDUCATION WITH ECUADORIAN TEACHERS

Abstract:

Media and digital affairs are part of people's lives, but not all of them develop skills that allow them to manage a critical and reflexive behavior regarding the contents they consume, mainly false ones. Usually, the task of verifying content has been assigned to journalists and the media; however, the enormous amount of content produced by prosumerism forces all users to be alert. In this context, teachers are key actors who can help young audiences to develop competencies to verify information, but to do so they must first be educated. The results of a qualitative research are presented with a group of primary and secondary school teachers in Ecuador on the development of information verification processes with the use of a fact-checking bot that works through WhatsApp, for this purpose the technique of non-participant observation with audiovisual support was applied. Among the main results, it is evident that …