Media Literacy

This page has information and links to Resources on Digital Media Literacy and AI information sites 

Fake News:
DISinformation--false & misleading information DELIBERATELY spread.
MISinformation--false & misleading information inadvertently spread.
MALinformation--information with a basis in reality spread specifically to cause harm.
DISinformation--is deliberate & includes malicious content to spread fear and suspicion (includes hoaxes, phishing, & propaganda)

AI EDU Tool Master List:

• https://www.magicschool.ai/ - do it all EDU tool!

• School.ai - do it all, even have AI teach your students

• Brisk - Brisk Teaching is a free AI Chrome extension that integrates directly with your tools like Google Docs, Canvas, Schoology, and more. You can use it on any webpage to change its reading level or use it in Google Docs to write curriculum, offer students feedback, or detect student use of AI.

• Scribe - Create Easy Tutorials (similar to Tang)

• Max AI.me - Use multiple AI tools anywhere 

• Adobe Podcasting - Audio Enhancer

• https://curipod.com/ - Ai based interactive lessons

• https://www.canva.com/ai-image-generator/ - Canva Magic Studio Image Generator

• https://openai.com/dall-e-2 - image generator but is freemium. (Can use Dall-E within Canva Edu.)

• https://chat.openai.com/ - the OG AI tool for many of us

• https://bard.google.com/ - Google’s AI tool

• https://goblin.tools/ - Magic To Do, Breaking things down

• Claude.AI- Another AI Generative Engine

• Perplexity-Another AI Generative Engine, also adds sources at the end of the info

• CodeBreakerEDU Another AI Generative Engine (This is a FREE chatbot specifically created for education. The interface does NOT require a sign-in, and the company collects no user data.)

• Hugging Chat AI Generator

• https://beta.diffit.me/#topic Diffit for Teachers

• Questionwell - summative and formative assessment tool

• Cohesive- AI Quiz Generator

• Pi.ai - similar to basic GPT tools

• Eduaide - All in one Edu Tool

• Bing Image Generator - AI Image Creator

• Diffit-https://web.diffit.me/ - adapts learning resources for all. Sign up before 11/1/23 and get premium access until 1/2024

• Magic School - Really great rubric tool

• Khanamigo - Khan Academy’s AI-powered guide. Tutor for learners. Assistant for teachers

• Twee - helps you create activities for speaking, listening, writing and reading purposes

• Character.ai | Focuses on conversations with A.I. chatbots that fill unique character roles.  A commonly accessed tool by students in our district to have conversations with “someone” that they would not normally have with a peer or adult.

• Scribble Diffusion - turn your sketch into an AI image. Great for students who have already created a short story to bring alive a character. Or they can start with an image and then create a story/write a few sentences.

• Adobe Firefly - use simple text prompts to generate images.

• Adobe Express - free design, photo and video creator (includes Adobe Firefly). Use generative AI tools to create images, add/remove elements from graphics, create templates, and apply text effects

• Autoclassmate.io- Freemium tool with an Activation and Engagement Activity Generator, Would You Rather Question Generator, and Lesson Plan and Activity Forecast Tool for FREE. Premium tools include a Lesson Plan Generator and AI-Powered Instructional Coach. Price is current $10/month and can be canceled at any time.

• A.I. For Education A.I. Prompt Library

• Verse by Verse - write poetry with classic American poets using AI (free)

• Teach-Anything.com - fill in the form and it generates an outline/info

• The Educator AI - various tools like report writing, newsletter, etc. 3 day free pass or 1 year memberships.

• Playground AI - image creator

• AI Writa - create various content (text and images), freemium

• Padlet - “I can’t draw” tool generates images within Padlet

• Leonardo.Ai.-Excellent tool. It asks you to register, it takes about 5 minutes to arrive in your email. It only gives you 150 tokens a day but that is enough to do things for our classes.

• Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop now have features added from Adobe Firefly including the brand new (as of last week) Text to Vector feature in Illustrator. You’ll need access to Creative Cloud to use them.

• Tome.app Creates presentations using AI. Adds text and graphics.

• Melobytes Lots of AI music creation options.

• Formative Has tons of formative assessment options but now includes generative AI

TinyWow’s AI Writer-No Login required, free ai writing tools. Great way for people to try AI without a login/account. 

                                      Factsheet 4: Types of Misinformation and Disinformation
Misinformation is false or inaccurate information. Examples include rumors, insults and pranks.
Disinformation is deliberate and includes malicious content such as hoaxes, spear phishing and propaganda. It spreads fear and suspicion among the population. 

Types of Misinformation and Disinformation:
1. Fabricated Content: Completely false content;
2. Manipulated Content: Genuine information or imagery that has been distorted, e.g. a sensational headline or populist ‘click bait’;
3. Imposter Content: Impersonation of genuine sources, e.g. using the branding of an established agency;
4. Misleading Content: Misleading information, e.g. comment presented as fact;
5. False Context: Factually accurate content combined with false contextual information, e.g. when the headline of an article does not reflect the content;
6. Satire and Parody: Humorous but false stories passed off as true. There is no intention to harm but readers may be fooled; 7. False Connections: When headlines, visuals, or captions do not support the content;
8. Sponsored Content: Advertising or PR disguised as editorial content;
9. Propaganda: Content used to manage attitudes, values and knowledge;
10. Error: A mistake made by established new agencies in their reporting. 

The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has also given birth to new forms of misinformation and disinformation. We call this Synthetic Media to indicate the artificial production, manipulation and modification of data and multimedia by automated means, especially AI algorithms, to mislead or change original meaning. There are fears that synthetic media could supercharge fake news, spread misinformation and distrust of reality and automate creative jobs.

“Deep Fakes” are one type of synthetic media where a person in an existing image or video is replaced with someone else's likeness. While the act of faking content is not new, deep fakes use powerful techniques from machine learning and AI to manipulate or generate visual and audio content with a high potential to deceive. Deep Fakes have garnered widespread attention for their use in revenge porn, fake news, hoaxes and financial fraud. Industry and governments are concerned to detect and limit their use. Some countries already have a national response or national institutions are working on it.

“Speech Synthesis” is another branch of synthetic media that can artificially produce human speech. A computer used for this purpose is called a “speech computer” or “speech synthesizer”. Synthesized speech concatenates pieces of recorded speech or it incorporates a model of the vocal tract and other human voice characteristics to create a completely "synthetic" voice.

In addition to new and more sophisticated ways of manipulating content, there are also a growing number of ways in which Social Media can be used to manipulate conversations:

• A Sockpuppet is an online identity used to deceive. The term now extends to misleading uses of online identities to praise, defend or support a person or organization; to manipulate public opinion; or to circumvent restrictions, suspension or an outright ban from a website. The difference between a pseudonym and a sockpuppet is that the sockpuppet poses as an independent third party, unaffiliated with the main account holder. Sockpuppets are unwelcome in many online communities and forums;

• Sealioning is a type of trolling or harassment where people are pursued with persistent requests for evidence or repeated questions. A pretense of civility and sincerity is maintained with these incessant, bad-faith invitations to debate;

• Astroturfing masks the sponsors of a message (e.g. political, religious, advertising or PR organizations) to make it appear as though it comes from grassroots participants. The practice aims to give organizations credibility by withholding information about their motives or financial connections; 

• Catfishing is a form of fraud where a person creates a sockpuppet or fake identity to target a particular victim on Social Media. It is common for romance scams on dating websites. It may be done for financial gain, to compromise a victim or as a form of trolling or wish fulfillment.