Is Seeing Believing?

Why do people alter digital photos and videos?

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.

Objectives:

• 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.

Vocabulary 

• advertising 
• alter 
• persuade 
• photo retouching

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