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Deepfake Verification Desk

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Grades 9-1290 minSource: Creative Dad Company

Students test real, publicly documented media-authentication techniques against a set of altered and unaltered sample images or clips, then honestly report where those techniques succeed and where they still fall short. It's critical digital literacy with real detective energy.

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Prep: 10 minActivity: 30 min1 session~$2/groupOne table for the Deepfake Verification Desk evidence and prototypeBeginner-friendly

Setup

Print or handwrite the four Deepfake Verification Desk challenge steps and place common paper supplies on one table. Prepare one small sample, dataset, scenario, or recycled-material model drawn directly from the project description; no device, paid tool, room decoration, or purchased kit is required.

Activity

  1. Read the Deepfake Verification Desk challenge aloud, then look at a mixed set of real and manipulated sample images and predict which verification clue—lighting, shadows, metadata—will be most useful.
  2. Use paper, index cards, recycled objects, or facilitator-provided sample data to apply a simple checklist of authentication techniques to each image and score confidence for each one.
  3. Run one tabletop trial and find an image the checklist gets wrong and investigate what specifically fooled the method.
  4. Finish by present a findings report on which techniques worked, which didn't, and what that means for trusting media online; record the evidence that supports the decision.

Done when: The group completes a defensible Deepfake Verification Desk solution, records at least one test result or comparison, changes one claim or design in response, and supports its final decision with that evidence.

Materials

printed sample image sets, magnifying glass set, poster board, index cards

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Steps

  1. Look at a mixed set of real and manipulated sample images and predict which verification clue—lighting, shadows, metadata—will be most useful.
  2. Apply a simple checklist of authentication techniques to each image and score confidence for each one.
  3. Find an image the checklist gets wrong and investigate what specifically fooled the method.
  4. Present a findings report on which techniques worked, which didn't, and what that means for trusting media online.