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Media and Information Literacy defined as The ability to access, evaluate, and

create media, which is described as the ability to access, analyze, and create media, is
a requirement for people to exercise their rights to freedom of information and
speech. To describe Media and Information Literacy in general, and Digital Media
and Information Literacy in particular, a rights-based approach is taken.

Being in the amidst of pandemic a lot of students was affected of this crisis and
media and other social networking sites as well as the various application has been
part of the daily life to the students and also to the people.According to the website of
blogspot.com “Media is now an integral part in our lives, and it plays a significant
role in almost every aspect of our lives. It links us to global events and provides us
with information such as news, history, and entertainment”. This assists us
tremendously in cultivating a more stable personality for the reasons that media
allows students to access more valuable content, communicate with learning
communities, and access other instructional systems that make learning more
convenient. Students and organizations may use social networking resources to
develop their learning processes in a variety of ways and It may also lead to the
dissemination of false facts and the creation of negative values.
In addition, Better connectivity, timely updates, online socializing, studying,
improving knowledge, and establishing a career are just a few of the positive effects of
social media on education. However, there are several disadvantages, such as data
stealing, cyberbullying, and social alienation. Let's take a closer look at the most
relevant facets of social media, both positive and negative, and get a deeper sense of
their effect on education. Now the media is so huge, we just need to turn on our
televisions by clicking a button to obtain all of the content we desire, or we can simply
search on search engines on the internet to obtain all of the information we need,
including news, history, geography, music, and movies, among other things, and the
best and most popular example we have is google.com. We will find something or any
sort of news and alerts by simply typing the name of the subject into this search
engine, and we can see news and facts on that subject in a matter of seconds.

The media aids in getting the true facts and knowledge of the world to our attention,
especially in education, since teachers and students profit greatly from this
source,  nevertheless its on us on how we will handle in this kind of medium.

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