Resources that help students
understand technology that can be used to manipulate digital media 

NewseumED:

• "The Speed of News: Pictures vs. Words" lesson E

• "Illustrated Opinions: Decoding an Editorial Cartoon" lesson

Project Look Sharp:

• "First Contact: Who's Telling the Story?" lesson E

• "Mapping Ancient Civilizations: Who’s Included and Who’s Not?" lesson

• Common Sense Education's "Is Seeing Believing?" lesson  E

Civic Online Reasoning:

• "Evaluating Evidence about Climate Change" lesson 

• "Evaluating Photos" lesson 

• "Evaluating Videos" lesson 

CTRL-F:

• "Questioning Images" activity

• "Search the history of an image" video

• "Verifying images & videos" video

Center for an Informed Public:

• "Which Face Is Real?" interactive website 

• "Spot the Deepfake" interactive website 

Take On Fake:

• "Investigating a Viral Meme" video

• "Real-Looking Deepfakes Are Here" video 

Other resources:

• News Literacy Project's "Power in Art" self-paced Checkology lesson

• MediaWise/PBS Learning Media's "'AI Ian' Shows You How Not to Be Duped by AI Technology" video + teaching materials

• First Draft's "Online verification challenge" activity

• New York Times "What's going on in this picture?" daily activity

• Above the Noise's "Can you spot a phony video?" video

• Crash Course Navigating Digital Information's "Evaluating photos & videos" video 

• CNN's "When seeing is no longer believing" website 

• Reverse image search instructions from Google