MEDIA, CYBER AND DIGITAL LITERACY
Media Literacy
● Literacy - commonly used to describe the
ability to read and write.
Perks of being a Media LIterate:
- Learn to think critically
- Become a smart consumer of products and
information
- Recognize point of view
- Create media responsibly
- Identify the role of media in our culture
- Understand the author’s goal
Importance of being Media Literate
- Enable us to skeptically examine the often-
conflicting media messages we receive
every day.
Cyber Literacy
- Also known as Digital Literacy
- Refers to a specific set of skills that assist
us in navigating the digital space,
understanding the consequences of our
actions, and protecting ourselves from cyber
threats.
Why be Digital literate?
● Being digitally literate means being able to
use modern technology appropriately,
safely, and effectively.
● Digital literacy skills help us manage our
online time and are a valuable asset in our
careers.
Perks of being Digitally Literate
- Support educational progress
- Increase online safety
- Understand Digital Responsibility
- Improve digital equity
- Supports LIfelong skills
Downsides of low digital literacy:
- Less “discovery thinking”
- Availability to students
- Cheating
- Distractions
- Cost of equipment
- Students may know more than teachers
- Could negatively impact writing skills
What are the 21st century skills?
● Refers to knowledge, life skills, career skills,
habits, and traits that are critically important
to student success in today’s world,
particularly as students move on to college,
the workforce, and adult life.
Learning skills: Also known as the 4 C’s (critical
thinking, communication, collaboration, and
creativity)
Life skills: (Flexibility, Initiative, Social skills,
productivity, leadership)
Literacy skills: (Information literacy, media
literacy, technology literacy)
21st Century Learning Strategies and
Implementation
1. Build staff capacity to demonstrate 21st
century skills in support of student learning
2. Develop strategies to support teachers with
implementation of 21st century skills
3. Assess students’ 21st century learning skills
4. Equip educators with data to proactively
identify and support students who are off
track.
Benefits of Media Literacy
1. Helps students become wiser consumers of
media as well as responsible producers of
their own media.
2. Helps to foster critical thinkng in students.
Digital literacy
Digital lit= digital tool knowledge+critical thinking+
social engagement
6 Core skills of Digital Literacy:
- Collaboration
- Creativity
- Critical thinking
- Citizenship
- Character
- communication
How to improve Digital literacy in your school/
- Collaborate with colleagues
- Focus on the curriculum
- Create “modern” classrooms
- Make your lessons digital
SOCIAL, GLOBAL AND DIGITAL LITERACY
Social Literacy
- The students ability to connect effectively
with those around them.
Importance of Social Literacy
- The ability to communicate and voice
opinions and thoughts, as well as listening
to opinions and thoughts of others, is
essential in learning. It improves students'
communication with peers and adults,
improves cooperative teamwork, and helps
them become effective, caring, concerned
members of their communities.
4 Types of Social Skills
1. Survival skills: Following directions,
Listening carefully to others
2. Problem-Solving skills: Asking for help
deciding what is appropriate to do or what is
good for us or not, apologizing in front of
others
3. Interpersonal skills: joining a conversation
or debate, sharing your views
4. Conflict resolution skills: dealing woth
bullying and teasing, handling peer pressure
Advantages:
- Better communication
- Good relationships
- Advanced career prospects
- Happiness
Issues in Social Literacy
- Poor and inadequate facilities
- Poor classrooms
- Inadequate staffs, unequipped library will
discourage the students from learning.
Thereby, they end up an illiterate
- Social evils, like child marriage, child labor
and slavery
- Poor social skills: Experience difficulties in
interpersonal relationships
Global LIteracy
- An understanding of how the world is
organized and interconnected.
- Students who are globally literate are able
to think critically about the world and the
role that they play in it.
- Globally literate students are empowered to
affect positive change in the world.
Importance of Global LIteracy
- Global education helps develop self-
awareness of one’s own identity, culture,
beliefs and how those connect with the
wider world, social awareness including
empathy, perspective-taking, appreciating
diversity, and respecting others, and
relationship-building skills with diverse
individuals.
Advantages:
- Inquiry, reasoning and problem-solving
- Collaboration
- Communicaion and an understanding of the
world
- Responsible global citizenship
- Respect for diversity
- An understanding of the skills and
technologies that are necessary for life in
the 21st century
- The ability for students to become
advocates for themselves and their
city/state/country
Cultural Literacy
- Understanding the traditions, regular
activities and history of a group of people
from a given culture.
- Engaging with traditions, activities and
history in cultural spaces like museums,
galleries and performances.
Importance/ Advantage
1. Helps students interact and collaborate
effectively.
2. Increases the value placed on diversity and
difference.
3. Increases participation in social and
community practices.
Skills and Knowledge to Improve:
1. Cross-cultural Communication
2. Teamwork
3. Listening
FINANCIAL AND ECOLOGICAL LITERACY
Financial Literacy
- The ability to understand and effectively use
various financial skills, including personal
financial management, budgeting, and
investing
- The foundation of your relationship with
money, and it is a lifelong journey of
learning.
[Key Takeaways]
● The term financial literacy refers to a variety
of important financial skills and concepts.
● People who are financially literate are
generally less vulnerable to financial fraud.
● A strong foundation of financial literacy can
help support various life goals, such as
saving for education or retirement, using
debt responsibly, and running a business.
● Key aspects to financial literacy include
knowing how to create a budget, plan for
retiremet, manage debts, and track personal
spending.
● Financial Literacy can be obtained through
reading books, listening to podcasts,
subscribing to financial content, or talking to
a financial pro.
Benefits of Financial Literacy
1. Financial Literacy can prevent devastating
mistakes.
2. Financial Literacy prepares people for
emergencies.
3. Financial Literacy can help individual reach
their goals.
4. Financial Literacy invokes confidence.
Strategies to Improve Financial Literacy Skills:
- Create a Budget
- Pay yourself first
- Pay bills promptly
- Get your credit report
- Check your credit score
- Manage debt
- Invest in your future
application to understanding how to build a
sustainable human society.
- Entails basic comprehension of the
principles of conservation, environmental
science and sustainability.
Ways to develop Eco-literacy
1. Develop empathy for all forms of life
2. Embrace sustainability as a community
practice
3. Make the invisible, visible
4. Anticipate unintended consequences
5. Understand how nature sustains life
Implications of Financial and Ecological Literacy to
the Curriculum
- Financial literacy classes teach students the
basics of money management: budgeting,
saving, debt, investing, giving and more.
That knowledge lays a foundation for
students to build strong money habits early
on and avoid many of the mistakes that lead
to lifelong money struggles.
- Ecoliteracy is not only to increase the
knowledge of environmental issues but also
has an understanding of the importance of
global ecological awareness to create a
balance between people's needs and the
earth's ability to sustain them (Kim et al.,
2017; Stone, 2017).

Ecological Literacy
- Ability to understand the natural systems
that make life on earth possible
- Understanding the principles of organisation
of ecosystems and their potential