It is with great satisfaction that the Pro-Rectory of Extension, Art and Culture (Proex) and the Institutional Communication Secretariat (Secom) announce to the academic community that the project “PodCast Saúde sem Fake” is on the list of 212 pre-selected projects from across the country for the Educador Transformador 2023 award, in the Higher Education category.
It is Awardwhich is already a national reference, “recognises and promotes transformative pedagogical proposals that mobilize students to discover problems and opportunities, transforming ideas and developing answers to real life problems.”
About the project
Health without Fake: The use of PodCast as a tool for disseminating real news and fighting fake news about Health is an extension project of the Extension, Art and Culture Scholarship Program (Pibeac), linked to Proex. In its third season, it brings together scholarship holders from the Nursing Course and the Bachelor of Humanities (BHU). In addition to multidisciplinarity, this season’s brand is also a Unilab brand: multiculturalism, materialized by the presence of an Angolan student and a Brazilian student, among the scholarship holders.
Podcasts have increased their popularity by making content available when people cannot be distracted by images. To the fake news it’s fake content that spreads quickly. As of 2018, and especially during the Covid-19 pandemic, the importance of scientifically based content has become essential. In addition, the podcast, as it belongs to Information and Communication Technologies (TICS), is an important tool in the teaching-learning process in the health area, as well as promoting learning about the use of audiovisual tools in the daily lives of students. students. With this, the podcast democratizes not only health knowledge, but also access to the creation of audiovisual content.
In addition, academic language and jargon used by professionals in the health area are not part of the daily lives of people who do not work in this field. With this in mind, Saúde sem Fake (SsF) uses simple language, so that it manages to disseminate knowledge equitably to all audiences, which is rarely heard in other podcasts with a Health theme.
“The PodCast SsF was conceived on a tripod: Simple language, short audios and news with a scientific basis, being characterized, therefore, by being intelligible content by anyone with internet access who wants to have access to true information and who, if they want to share, have confidence in the information”, explain the creators of the PodCast, adding: “Finally, celebrating the pre-selection for the award, we invite the academic community to listen the first episode of the third season which discusses: What is Science? What does a scientist do?
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