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Jose Rizal High School TOPIC: MEDIA LITERACY, INFORMATION LITERACY AND
Gov. W. Pascual Ave., Malabon City TECHNOLOGY LITERACY.
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
Literacy
MEDIA AND INFORMATION LITERACY
1st SEMESTER SY: 2021-2022 • Is the ability to identify, understand, interpret, create,
communicate and compute, using printed and written
REVIEWER #1 materials associated with varying contexts.
TOPIC: COMMUNICATION, MEDIA AND INFORMATION
REVIEWER #5
TOPIC: MEDIA AND INFORMATION SOURCES Language - is the method of human communication, either
spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structures
Media and Information Sources and conventional way.
Information can be access anywhere as long as there is
Media Language - are codes, convention, formats, symbols
communication. But these sources can present information
differently. and narrative structures that indicate the meaning of media
3 Main Sources of Information messages to an audience.
1. Indigenous knowledge – Local and indigenous knowledge refers
Media Codes – is a system of signs that when put together
to the understandings, skills and philosophies developed by
societies with long histories of interaction with their natural creates a meaning.
surroundings. For rural and indigenous people, local knowledge
3 Types of Media Codes
informs decision-making about fundamental aspects of day-to-
day life. -UNESCO 1. Symbolic codes - Shows what is beneath the surfaces
Main Characteristics of indigenous knowledge are the following of what we see. It includes the setting, mise en scene,
• Oral tradition of communication acting and color.
• Store information in memories
• Information exchange is face-to-face 2. Written codes – are the formal written language used
• Information is contained within the border of the in a media product. written codes include font style and
community font size, captions, choice of words and emphasis of
2. Library – a building or a room containing collections of books, words.
periodicals, and sometimes films and recorded music for people
3. Technical codes are all the ways in which equipment
to read, borrow, or refer to.
is used to tell the story in a media it includes camera
The following are some of the reading materials that are available in
work, audio or sound, lighting and editing.
your school library;
• Books – which contains in depth explanation about a
certain topic. Also we have
Media Conventions – refers to a standard or norm that acts as
• Scholarly journals – which information are updated and
highly specific for scholars and researchers. rule governing behavior and are generally established and
• Magazines – a broad summaries of issues for general accepted ways of doing something.
audiences.
• Newspaper –are updated national and regional information 3 types of conventions
for a general audience published daily.
1. Form conventions – certain ways we expect types of
3. The Internet – Is a network of networks that consists of millions
of private, public, academic, business and government networks, media’s codes to be arranged. In films, there should be
of local to global scope, that are linked by a broad array of a title at the beginning and credits at the end.
electronic and optical networking technologies. Newspapers have a masthead, headline, and different
sections.
RAVAT
5 things that we need to consider to determine that the 2. Story conventions – are common narrative structures
information is credible. and understandings that are common in story telling
1. Check the Reliability media product.
2. Know the Accuracy
3. Genre Conventions - are common use of tropes,
3. Value of the source
characters, settings or themes in a particular type of
4. Authority of the Source
5. Timeliness medium. Genre conventions are closely linked with
audience expectations. It can be formal or thematic