Nano Banana comics for Caulfield’s “Three moves, seven tips”

by | Nov 22, 2025 | AI, Education, Libraries, Multimedia

Colorful three-panel comic titled “Get It In, Track It Down, Follow Up” showing students on phones. Panel 1 says to upload the whole source or use “AI Mode Inception.” Panel 2 shows tapping links and feeding points back into AI to verify and explore. Panel 3 encourages evidence-focused prompts, asking AI to lean on sources, and keeping a follow-ups file.

I’ve found Mike Caulfield’s recent online workshops about how to use AI to fact-check (or get context about claims) very useful!

If you’re not familiar with him, he’s the creator of the SIFT method for information literacy: Stop, Investigate the source, Find better coverage, Trace claims to the original context.

Lately he’s been working on methods for using AI to get context around claims — ideas we as librarians can use when teaching information literacy. You can read his latest post here: SIFT for AI: Introduction and Pedagogy.

He uses Google’s AI Mode (not AI overviews, which don’t work well). AI Mode is easy and quick to access and you don’t have to sign in to Google. (Learn more about AI Mode vs AI Overviews).

 

Get it in, track it down, follow up

This is his method in a nutshell:

Get it in

  • Tip #1: Just select the whole claim or upload the whole image
  • Tip #2: Use “AI mode inception” to drill into new areas

Track it down

  • Tip #3: Click the link nearest the claim you want to verify
  • Tip #4: To explore/source individual points feed them back into AI Mode

Follow up

  • Tip #5: Use an evidence-focused prompt for better accuracy
  • Tip #6: Ask it to lean into the sources you value
  • Tip #7: Keep a follow-ups file

You can watch him demonstrate this in videos on his YouTube playlist.

Nano Banana Pro for creating infographics and comics

Now this post is not about how to use his method… instead it’s for showing my fun experiments with using Nano Banana Pro to illustrate his ideas.

Since Google just released Nano Banana Pro recently, I’ve been experimenting with using it to create infographics and comic panels. It works well! I use it in the paid version of Gemini.

So I thought I’d use the “three moves, seven tips” idea to experiment with. Here are some of my results.

Feel free to copy and use these for any purpose.

Prompt: Make an infographic that shows these tips. Do it in the style of a colorful modern mind map.

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Prompt: Now do it in the style of a 1950s comic.
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Prompt: Now do it in the style of the Simpsons.
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Prompt: Now do it in the style of a modern comic with three students using mobile phones.
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I liked the modern comic best, so it’s the featured image at the top of this post.

 

Learn more about Nano Banana Pro

Here are a couple of videos that inspired me (from two of my favorite channels). They show what Nano Banana Pro can do.

(The days of recognizing AI-generated images by mangled text are over. I’ll need to update this tutorial soon).