Truths and fake news: using whatsapp's communication dynamics in teaching polar regions for higher education in geography
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https://doi.org/10.51359/2594-9616.2020.242956Keywords:
Climate change, Geography teaching, TICAbstract
The aim of this research is to present new ways of approaching Climate Change and teaching polar regions to undergraduate students in Geography through interdisciplinary discussion and the construction of courseware linked to new information and communication technologies, such as WhatsApp. The first step was set aside for news distribution to students. The second step consisted in a presentation with information and explanations on Antarctica and climate change, aiming to support students to answer true or false to the news. In the third step students could touch and wear some objects used by researchers in Antarctic fieldworks. The use of WhatsApp to demonstrate a systemic approach of climate change has revealed different possibilities to understand these subjects using knowledge from Climatology and other disciplines. By addressing climate change in the disciplines of biogeography, population geography, agrarian geography, cultural geography, climatology, cartography, geomorphology and urban geography, it is possible to deepen these systemic relations between the physical and the human. Therefore, the teacher needs constant updating, as the quantity and diversity of published scientific materials are large, as well as the spread of fake climate news
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