Manipulated media
Manipulated media includes deepfake video, cloned voice and altered images. Knowing what is possible is the first defence.
AI for Kids · Class 8 · Module 8 of 9
Cyber Safety and Deepfakes
If a video can be faked perfectly, what still counts as proof?
8 sessionsSessions 57–64
4 weeksTypical pace
IntermediateLevel
Class 8Artificial Intelligence
The big idea
Students learn to spot manipulated media, understand the scams built on it, and adopt verification habits — with the honest caveat that detection is getting harder, so source-checking matters more than eye-checking.
Why it matters
This is direct personal safety. Voice-clone scams targeting families are already common in India.
Unpacked
What you will actually learn
Three core ideas, each taught with worked examples and then practised until it feels obvious.
Privacy and scams
Privacy and scams: the more of your voice and face is public, the more material exists to imitate you.
Verification habits
Verification habits are simple and effective — check the original source, call back on a known number, and agree a family code word.
Did you know?
Many families now use an agreed code word for emergency phone calls, specifically because a familiar voice is no longer proof of identity.
Common mix-up
“I would spot a deepfake.” Studies show people perform close to guesswork. Verification beats intuition every time.
Session by session
Your 8-session journey
Sessions 57–64 of the 72-session year, at two one-hour sessions per week.
- 1
Warm-up and big picture
Where this module fits, what you will build, and a hands-on starter that gets everyone curious about manipulated media.
- 2
Manipulated media
Guided teaching on manipulated media, worked through together with the teacher.
- 3
Manipulated media — practice lab
Independent practice, small challenges and one deliberate mistake to diagnose.
- 4
Privacy and scams
Guided teaching on privacy and scams, building directly on the previous two sessions.
- 5
Privacy and scams — practice lab
Applied tasks that combine manipulated media and privacy and scams in one piece of work.
- 6
Verification habits
Verification habits introduced and practised, completing the toolkit needed for the project.
- 7
Project build
Guided build session for the module project: Deepfake awareness workshop.
- 8
Test, present and reflect
Finish, test against the checklist, present the work and explain the decisions behind it.
Project lab
Deepfake awareness workshop
Every module ends with something the student built themselves and can demonstrate. This is the piece that goes into their portfolio and gets explained out loud at the end of session 64.
Try this at home
Agree a family code word this week, and explain to a grandparent exactly why it is now necessary.
It is finished when
- It works from start to finish without breaking
- You can explain every part of it in your own words
- You tested it and improved at least one thing afterwards
- Someone else used or understood it without your help
By the end of this module
Students finishing Module 8 can:
- Explain and use manipulated media without prompting
- Explain and use privacy and scams without prompting
- Explain and use verification habits without prompting
- Build and finish deepfake awareness workshop
- Test your own work and correct what you find
- Talk an adult through what you made and why
Word bank
The vocabulary introduced here, in plain language:
- deepfake
- Synthetic media imitating a real person.
- voice cloning
- Recreating a person’s voice from samples.
- verification
- Confirming authenticity through an independent channel.
Module challenge
Think you have got this?
0 XPLevel 1 · Curious Beginner
6 quick questions drawn from this module — vocabulary, the project you build, and a myth-or-fact round. Every wrong answer explains itself, so a mistake still teaches you something.
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