FUNCTIONAL LITERACY

• Refers to the capacity of a person to

engage in all those activities in which
literacy is required for effective function
of his or her group and community and
FUNCTIONAL for enabling him or her to continue to use
LITERACY reading, writing and calculation for his or
her own and the community’s
development.
• Functional literacy is a set of skills and
competencies which allow people to
function and thrive in modern-day
society.
 To function and thrive in modern-day society
practically means:

• Making informed choices about your own health (e.g.,

reading a drug label and finding out about any side-effects
you might experience after taking the drug);
• Knowing your rights and responsibilities as a citizen and
consumer (e.g., understanding the clauses in your
employment contract, figuring out what to do when you get
a ticket by the traffic police, or making an informed vote);
• Thinking critically when presented with new information
(e.g., distinguishing between facts and opinions in
advertising, social media, or news websites; using a transit
map, etc.);
 To function and thrive in modern-day society
practically means:

• Personal and professional growth (e.g., making the

connection between cause and effect, analyzing
information, managing your personal finances, being
creative, setting and achieving your own goals).
WE NEED TO BE FUNCTIONAL
FINANCIAL LITERACY
 We need money
to LIVE

We need money to
GROW
WHY DO WE NEED
We need money to
MONEY?
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HELP OTHERS

To live harmoniously
with others

We need money for the

FUTURE
 FINANCIAL LITERACY

• Financial Literacy is the ability to understand

how money works; how someone makes,
manages and invest it, and also expends it.
  No work, no income, no
money.
 Money problem can be
WHY WE HAVE the root of all other
MONEY issues.
PROBLEM?  We lack knowledge on
how to manage our
money and finances.
 We don’t know how to
invest.
 WE NEED TO FINANCIALLY
WHAT DO WE EMPOWER OURSELVES
DO THEN?
 Identify which are
NEEDS and the WANTS

Freedom from
WANT
SOME TIPS TO
EMPOWER ONESELF
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Get out of debt.

Prudent use of
money
Improve your physical
and spiritual well-being.
MEDIA LITERACY
 MEDIA LITERACY

• Is the ability to access, analyze, evaluate and

create media in a variety of forms.
• Allows people to be critical thinkers and creative in
many messages like image, language and sound.
• Allows people to be critical thinkers and creative in
many messages like image, language and sound.
• It also concerns the ability to identify when there is
a problem that impacts democracy, thus allowing
the public to generate its own opinion, which can
influence society.
 THE IMPORTANCE OF MEDIA
LITERACY
The purpose of media literacy is to give us
more control. Media messages can be
manipulative. Some are subtle, some are overt.
Either way, we live in a society in which each of us
is in inundated with literally hundreds, maybe
thousands of messages a day.
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IMPORTANT  Accessing media
SKILLS THAT  Analyzing content
HELP THEVIEWER  Being able to evaluate
OR READER messages
UNDERSTAND  Being able create
THE MEANING media for self-
OF MEDIA expression and
LITERACY
communication
 WHAT ARE THE
DIFFERENT TYPES
OF MEDIA?
 DIFFERENT TYPES OF MEDIA

• Newspaper
• Magazines
• Billboards
• Radio
• Television
• Internet/websites
• Video games
• Apps
• Advertisement
  Images and pictures
 Text and words
 Music and sounds
TOOLS USED IN
MEDIA
 Graphics
 Video
 Interview
WHAT IS THE SHORT VIDEO CLIPS ALL ABOUT?
WHAT IS THE SHORT VIDEO CLIPS ALL ABOUT?
  Learning to read people, have a good
SOCIAL MEDIA relationship with others, what is (and what is
LITERACY not) socially acceptable behavior in different
contexts, and adapt our behavior is a skill
called Social Literacy. Social Literacy
develops with time to learn with others, while
the brain and emotional system are in
development.
 A computer-based technology that facilitates
the sharing of ideas, thoughts and
information through virtual network and
communities.
 Who made this post?

IS SOCIAL MEDIA GOOD

OR BAD?
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 Who made this post?

ADVANTAGES
THE GOOD AND BAD OF
SOCIAL MEDIA
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DISADVANTAGES
  Global connectivity:Who Onemade
of thethis
most post?
recognized
advantages of social media is that it has enabled
excellent global communication. It is now possible to
connect with users from all around the world through
social media. tool: If used effectively, social media
 Educational
ADVANTAGES provides immense opportunities for self-and active-
learning.

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 Recruitment: Social media is increasingly used as a
medium to spread awareness about one’s likes and
dislikes, hobbies and talent, and skills and
 competencies.
Real Time Information Sharing/Information
access.
 Advantage in Advertising.
 Who made this post?
 Health issues: It is found that students are using
social media to vent out their frustrations. Their
feeds, most of the times, lead to an endless stream
of stress. It is found, through research, that one
negative post of a person will influence1.3 negative
DISADVANTAGES posts by friends, leading to a chain of feeds that
might result in stress and negative moods.

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 Envious Behaviour: Research shows that if envy is
controlled, social media may not induce depression.
It is a known fact that the incidence of envious posts
is increasing on social networking sites, leading to a
vicious circle. Students blindly aspiring to follow
lifestyles depicted by their peers on social media is
another point of concern.
 Who made this post?

 Cyberbullying
 Privacy issue
DISADVANTAGES
 Reduction in productivity
 Addiction
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 Academic performance
 Evading physical society
 Who
IT’S UP TO made this post? WE
THE INDIVIDUAL.
NEED TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR
OUR OWN SAFETY.

IS SOCIAL MEDIA
HARMFUL TO
SOCIETY?
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 Who made this post?

Why has it attracted

my attention?
5 QUESTIONS TO ASK
YOURSELF How am I interpreting the

WHEN ANALYZING
SOCIAL MEDIA POST
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message in this post?

Can different people see

different messages in this
content?

What values are

foreground in the post?