“We never walked on the Moon”: the fake news that continues to poison the lives of teachers

2023-12-19 05:00:00

It is a course intended to check students’ digital skills which should have gone off without a hitch. However, on that September day, a photo of the Apollo 11 moon landing on July 21, 1969, turned this lesson into the irrational. “The physical sciences teacher found herself faced with two final year students who told her that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin had never set foot on the Moon,” says Carole Zerbib, the principal of the Vauquelin vocational high school (Paris 12th arrondissement). ).

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“They aligned arguments found on social networks. The teacher tried to convince them, but it was firmly anchored in their minds, continues the principal, also a member of the Union of School Heads (SNPDEN). She was even surprised to see that the rest of the class never expressed their disagreement. She found this silence worrying and was upset by the questioning of these historical facts. » That a hackneyed conspiracy theory repeatedly denied by the famous astronauts themselves might still disrupt a final year class is indeed enough to make science teachers shudder!

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