Real or Fake!

When doing the real or fake assignment, I thought that this is going to be a cool and awesome assignment for me to do. When I first started the assignment I had to look at a photo and determine if it was real or fake. This was the photo. 

I looked at the photo and at first I thought theres no way this is real, then I looked again and I started to believe that it could be real. So I began to study the picture, for me I used my reasoning to figure this out. I looked at the angle of the jet and thought that it just didn't look right. Then I thought there would be no way a jet would be flying that close and low to buildings in a city. So in my mind I thought it was fake. In reading the blog with the answers later, I was right the photo was fake. The shadows of the jet and building didn't line up and there was a cusor still in the photo, that I had missed, from where the photo was faked.

The next part of the assignment was to determine which hotel review was a real review. The two reviews said this...

Review 1: Stayed here for two nights with my wife and golden retriever in a pet friendly room. All staff in the hotel are super friendly and helpful. Can't beat the location. Visiting our son at Dalhousie. We are traveling from Maine and have greatly enjoyed Halifax. If you are into jogging, you can leave hotel and make loop in the point.

Review 2: We only stayed for one night but I would have happily stayed here longer. The hotel is beautiful throughout. We upgraded our room for a good price and had a really nice king bed which was really comfy. We ordered room service too for breakfast and were very impressed how quickly the food came.

When I read the reviews I thought that both of them looked like good reviews and that they could be real and then I thought well one has to be fake because its a real and fake assignment so I choose the second review to be true because I believe the first review made the stay to good to be true. When looking at the answer blog, both reviews were found to be true. I didn't think that they both were true but like I had thought before I made my decision they both looked true. In the end they both were true.

The last part of the assignment was to determine which quote was a Jeffersonian quote. The three quotes that we had to look at was...

Quote 1: “Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you."

Quote 2: “That the obliquity of the ecliptic, when these elephants lived, was so great as to include with the tropics all those reasons in which the bones are found." 

Quote 3:  “Gun control works great for the people who are law-abiding citizens and it does nothing for the criminals, and all it does is put the people at risk.”

When I looked at the quotes I thought that the first one looked like a Jeffersonian quote more than the others because of the words and wording of the words. The other quotes looked like they wouldn't have been Jeffersonian quotes because the words didn't make sense in the second quote, and the third looked like something that would be said in present day and not back in history. When reading the answer blog the first quote was not a true Jeffersonian quote, it was one that was made up. The second quote was a true quote that Jefferon used in one of his passages. The last one was a not true because it was a quote from a present day presential canidate. So reflecting on choosing the wrong one I was fooled by a fake quote. This would be a great assignment to use in my future classroom to show my students that not everthing they read on the internet is true and they should research it to see if it is or not. I enjoyed this assignment and I hope thoses who read this can use this in the classes as well.

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