GUAGUA NATIONAL COLLEGES

Guagua, Pampanga

SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT

MEDIA AND INFORMATION LITERACY
Module 1 Activity

Student’s Name: Zyra Jones D. Manalang Date: 01-21-22

Strand & Section: ABM 2 12- Jerusalem

Questions: (50pts)
1. What are the media literacy skills that can help people?
• Develop critical thinking skills.
• Understand how media messages shape our culture and society.
• Identify target marketing strategies.
• Recognize what media maker wants us to believe or do.
• Name the techniques of persuasion used.
• Recognize bias, spin, misinformation and lies.
• Discover the parts of the story that are not being told.
• Evaluate media messages based on our experiences, skills, beliefs, and values.
• Create and distribute our own media messages.
• Advocate for media justice.
2. An information literate person is able to do what?
• Determine the extent of information needed.
• Access the needed information effectively and efficiently.
• Evaluate information and its sources critically.
• Incorporate selected information into one’s knowledge base.
• Use information effectively to accomplish a specific purpose.
• Understand the economic, legal, and social issues surrounding the use of information,
and access and use information ethically and legally
3. New ways to read and write in Information Literacy?
◦Consuming and producing information are the new ways to read and write under in
information literacy.
4. Learners who have obtained the technology literacy are able to do what?
• Problem – solve
• Communication
• Locate, use and synthesize information found using technology.
• Develop skills necessary to function in the 21st century.
5. In your opinion, how can communication be affected by media and information?
◦Media and information are part of communication process. Communication hugely
changed due to media platforms we use in conveying information, by this we find it
easier to encode and decode data instead of the in-person interaction. Just one click and
the information we needed and the means to communicate is ready to serve. But
regardless of its good effects, some experience the other way. Some lost their
communication skills, sometimes our internet access is not good and some
abbreviations, terms and new words are present which not all can understand that
resulted for the communication barrier to rise.