iGeneration - 21st Century Education (Pedagogy & Digital Innovation)

If I take enough vitamin c, can I prevent covid-19?  What if I drink liquid silver? Or keep purple onions by my bed? There is a lot of misinformation about the corona virus. In this episode, Myles breaks down some popular myths about how covid-19 is transmitted, prevented and treated. What myths have you heard and how did you determine they were false?
Have your students watch the video and respond to the prompt on KQED Learn.

Visualize the online spread of fake news, hoaxes, rumors, conspiracy theories, satire, fact checking, and the occasional accurate claim.

BY MATTHEW LYNCH

by Dave LeClair

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