Media and inforamtion literacy

MEDIA AND INFORMATION:

CULTURES, COMMUNITIES AND TECHNOLOGIES
 Lessons and Coverage:
Lesson Topic/Title You’ll learn to...
No.
Lesson 1 INTRODUCTION  describe how communication
TO MEDIA AND influenced by media and
INFORMATION information; and
LITERACY  identify the similarities and
differences between and among
media literacy, information literacy,
and technology literacy; and
 discuss responsible use of media
and information.
 Expected Skills

✖ understand the basics of media and

information literacy
✖ justify the need to become media and
information literate
✖ create an interactive symposium for the
community focusing on being a media
and information literate individual
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LESSON 1
INTRODUCTION TO MEDIA AND
INFORMATION LITERACY
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Activity 1- Pre-Assessment
Situation: Imagine waking up one day to find no
internet, libraries, smart devices, newspapers,
magazines, radio stations and TV Channels have
also disappeared.
1. How would you be informed of anything now?
2. How would you share information and communicate news and
events?
3. What ways would you have to communicate with one other?
4. How would it affect the way you live?
5. What would society lose in this situation?
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MEDIA AND INFORMATION LITERACY

represented as the capability to access, analyze,
and invent media.
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There are main benefits of MIL which are:

2. Media and information 3. A society that is
1. In the teaching literacy imparts crucial
and learning knowledge about functions of
media and
process, it equips media and information information literate
the teachers with channels in democratic fosters the
enhanced societies, reasonable development of free,
knowledge to understanding about the independent and
conditions needed to perform pluralistic media
empower future
those functions effectively and and open
citizens. basic skills necessary to information
evaluate the performance of
media and information
systems.
providers in light of the
expected functions.
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To enjoy the benefits of MIL, the following are required:

2. The MIL curriculum 3. Citizens should
1. Media and
should enable teachers to have knowledge
information
teach media and about location
literacy should be
information literacy to and consumption
considered as a
students with the objective information as
whole and include
of providing them with well as about the
a combination of
essential tools so that they production of
competencies
can engage with media and information.
(knowledge, skills
information channels as
and attitudes).
autonomous and rational
young citizens.

To enjoy the benefits of MIL, the following are required:
4. Women, men and
marginalized groups,
such as people living
with disability,
indigenous people or
ethnic minorities,
should have equal
access to information
and knowledge.
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5. MIL should be seen as
essential tool to
facilitate intercultural
dialogue, mutual
understanding and a
cultural understanding
of people.
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Media Literacy
✖ Media literacy is the understanding to access, analyze,
create, reflect and act using all forms of
communication.
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Forms of Media