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Is Seeing Believing?

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Title:

Is Seeing Believing?

URL:

https://www.commonsense.org/education/digital-citizenship/lesson/is-seeing-believing

Content Source:

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Common Sense Media
Type: Lesson/Unit Plan

Overview:

The web is full of photos, and even videos, that are digitally altered. And it's often hard to tell the difference between what's real and what's fake. Help your students ask critical questions about why someone might alter a photo or video in the first place.

Students will be able to:
  • Recognize that photos and videos can be altered digitally.
  • Identify different reasons why someone might alter a photo or video.
  • Analyze altered photos and videos to try to determine why.

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Content Standard(s):
Digital Literacy and Computer Science
DLIT (2018)
Grade: 3
R3) Assess the validity and identify the purpose of digital content.

Unpacked Content
Evidence Of Student Attainment:
Students will:
  • assess the validity of digital content by considering the web address, publisher, and domain of a website.
  • identify the purpose of digital content.
Teacher Vocabulary:
  • validity
  • read a web address
  • publisher
  • domain name
  • extension
Knowledge:
Students know:
  • how to read a web address to validate authenticity.
  • locate the publisher of a website.
  • use context cues to define the purpose of digital content.
Skills:
Students are able to:
  • read the domain name and extension of a web address to identify type of digital content.
  • identify the publisher of a website.
  • use context cues to define the purpsoe of digital content.
Understanding:
Students understand that:
  • anyone can create digital content.
  • digital content may or may not be true.
  • every digital content has an author.
  • digital content has a purpose.
Tags: advertising, alter, persuade, photo retouching
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Author: Aimee Bates
Alabama State Department of Education