SOUTH POINT COLLEGE OF ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY

Media and Cyber / Digital Literacy

What I’ve learned in Media literacy is about how we can identify different types of
media and understand the messages they're sending. Today we take in a huge amount
of information from a wide array of sources, like TV, radio, newspapers, and magazines,
internet etc. There are text messages, memes, viral videos, social media, video games,
advertising, and more. But all media shares one thing. Someone created it. And it was
created for a reason. Understanding that reason is the basis of media literacy. On the
other hand Cyber Literacy is the ability to use computer technologies effectively and to
simultaneously understand the implications of those actions. It is also important to know
where to go to find reliable and accurate resources in cyberspace, otherwise known as
cyber intelligence. The word (understanding) is key here, as it goes beyond knowing
how to use the technology but to have a consciousness of one’s actions.
The media are highly attractive, so we increase the time we spend with media
messages each year. Over the last 3 decades,every new survey of media use has
shown that people on average have been increasing their exposure time every
year 。 For example, in 2010 、 people spent an average of 10 hours and 46 minutes
with all forms of the media each day and this increased to 12 hours and 14 minutes by
2014（eMarketer、2014）。By 2017、people were spending more time with the media
than with anything else、with the average person spending 12 hours and 1 minute per
day on media（eMarketer、2017b）。
Moreover with the development of the Internet, many opportunities have opened
up for all kinds of scammers who take advantage of the unawareness of people, or
rather their illiteracy. And in order to lessen the damage from all kinds of "hackers", it is
crucial to increase the level of cyber literacy of the population. And the introduction of
cyber literacy, as a discipline, in modern educational institutions can significantly
contribute to this (Mentsiev & Chebieva, 2019; Pritam et al.,
2011).

To conclude, digital literacy are preferred to use for students to apply in the real
life for knowledge seeking purpose. Some ideas for classroom-ness are possible since
it can be a good impact for the students and a good technologies tool provided. The
online surfing, social media might increase the knowledge practice and build a
good strength in terms of communication, delivering a good information and
practicing a real information seeking method without boring. Moreover, Digital
technology also provides good search engines which student can explore, like
Google translator, wikis, online dictionaries and more. However, to fully utilize the digital
literacy, the student must master the technology skills. Students must put an effort to
explore the digital content sites to gain information for a specific purpose. Students
need to know the right way to use the technology, such as skills of writing, knowing a
little bit about the interface search engine, ways to use the systems and using the social
media. Thus, it has highlighted the on-going and growing concern for students to
aware about the digital literacy which can less your burden for knowledge
seeking approach and the new technologies learning method.

Reports:
Challenges to media literacy education
Challenges to digital literacy education

Reference:
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https://www.europeanproceedings.com/files/data/article/10005/11439/article_10005_11
439_pdf_100.pdf

Submitted by: June Mark L. Aquino

Submitted to: Jelaine C. Balatayo