Introducing Digital Literacy Skills: Is This Photo Real or Fake?
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Learn how to discern if a digital photo might be real or fake with a four layered approach. Discover how to evaluate claims through a media literacy strategy called "lateral reading". Then, play a game of real or fake.
Introducing Digital Literacy Skills: Is This Photo Real or Fake?
- 1. Is This Photo Real or Fake?
- 2. Contents M e d i a L i t e r a c y 1 . D i s c e r n a d i g i t a l p h o t o : 2 . P l a u s i b i l i t y a . L i g h t i n g b . Q u a l i t y c . C o n t e x t d . F a c t - C h e c k i n g w i t h L a t e r a l R e a d i n g 3 . L e t s p l a y ! 4 .
- 4. Center for Media Literacy defines media literacy as A 21st-century approach to education. It provides a framework to access, analyze, evaluate, create and participate with messages in a variety of forms from print to video to the Internet.
- 5. Media literacy builds an understanding of the role of media in society as well as essential skills of inquiry and self- expression necessary for citizens of a democracy. medialit.org/media-literacy-definition-and-more/
- 6. Ask Yourself: Who created this? What techniques are used to attract attention? How might other people different than me interpret this? What lifestyles, values, and points of view are represented in; or omitted from, this message? Why was this media published/sent?
- 7. Is this new?
- 8. No.
- 9. 4 strategies to decipher a photo
- 11. Plausibility
- 12. Chicken Bike?
- 13. A shark swimming on the highway next to a car?
- 14. New species of rabbits with antlers?
- 15. Lighting
- 16. How do we see light? Light travels in a straight line and does not go through opaque objects. 1. Light reflects at a 90-degree angle from a reflecting surface. 2. Shadows should be consistent throughout the photo. 3.
- 17. Does this reflection match?
- 19. What angle does the light come from? Is it consistent across the image? University of Wisconsin added a 1994 photo of a black student to a photo of students at a 1993 football game that gives the appearance of diversity. We can only see his head.
- 20. Where is the light source? Follow the shadows
- 21. Quality
- 22. Overexposed photo of George W Bush supposedly writing a note asking for a bathroom break.
- 23. Does the size of the storm and the statue of liberty, the boat, and the flag make sense?
- 25. Context
- 26. What clues can you find in the photo? This image is AI generated.
- 30. Look at the Metadata Two ways: Method 1: Save the file to your device. Go to the file you saved. Right click on it and choose properties then details or get info. If you are on a phone, go to a photo, then scroll down to see your own photos metadata. Method 2: Right click on the image. Choose open photo in new tab. Copy the URL. Put the image URL through an EXIF viewer app in your internet browser, such as: jimpl.com/ 1. exif.tools/ 2. brandfolder.com/workbench/extract- metadata 3.
- 31. Fact Checking
- 32. Click on the camera button in Google to do reverse image search Google It The easiest method:
- 33. Websites: Factcheck.org Snopes.com PolitiFact.com Fullfact.org AllSides.com Wiki of Fact Checking sites by country: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fac t-checking_websites
- 34. Lateral reading is a technique of evaluating the credibility of a source by comparing it with other sources. By doing this, you verify evidence, contextualize information, find potential weaknesses, and gather facts.
- 36. Where did the photo originate? Who posted it? Where can I learn more about them or their organization? What claims does the photo make? Where can I learn more about these claims? What sources are cited? Where can I learn more about these sources? Ask yourself:
- 37. When evaluating media online Consider who is behind the information/photo. Open new tabs, and look them up. By fact-checking with new tabs, you read horizontally. This also works well with evaluating memes and graphs.
- 38. Lets Play!
- 41. Does this smoke look real? Photo claims to be a bombing in Lebanon
- 44. Learn more about this photo at: https://www.nytimes.com/2006 /08/14/technology/14photosho p.html? unlocked_article_code=1.G00.D OZ9.UVK9xibOTQ7M&smid=url- share
- 68. Thank you
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