Activity 4 - Where Did This Come From?
Looking got you a long way. It will not get you all the way. Sooner or later, looking runs out - and what replaces it is a question: where did this come from?
What happens in Activity 4
An 8-minute Phase 3 - Investigation activity, the direct sibling of Lesson 2's AI Verification Card - the same discipline, applied to an image instead of a statement. Choose 1 of 4 constructed cases, then complete an Image Origin Card: what it claims, who published it, a side-by-side know/assume split, what would make you sure, and a verdict. Finish with a share-or-not decision, a reason, and the anonymous class spread.
🎯 Learning objectives
Separate what's known about an image from what's assumed. Find and record the source of an image, or record that there is none. Say what would have to be true before believing or sharing it. Make a share-or-not decision and give the reason.
🧭 On the four cases
All four cases are partnership-constructed - no real news event, public figure, named town or organisation appears in any of them, matching the source specification's safeguarding rule. Two of the four are honest, clean cases (a labelled AI illustration, a correctly credited museum photograph) - a lesson where every image turns out to be a lie would teach cynicism, not literacy.
- Junior gets three fields (what it claims / who says so / what I'd need) with cases C and D offered first, since they are the honest ones
- Voice input on every field; extended time from the accessibility profile
- Senior gets all four fields including the know/assume split, free choice of all four cases, and an extra prompt: Case C is honest and Case B is not - what exactly is the difference? Write it as a rule someone could follow.
- Print-pack card 4 holds the four cases with captions and a blank Image Origin Card
- "Places to check" become a second sheet handed out on request
- This activity loses almost nothing on paper - the Origin Card was designed as a paper form first