Republic of the Philippines

ISABELA STATE UNIVERSITY

COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
Echague Campus

NAME: MANGAOIL, MILKIE A. DATE:

COURSE/YEAR AND SECTION: BSE MATH 3 SCORE:

BUILDING AND ENHANCING NEW LITERACIES ACROSS THE CURRICULUM

Instructions:
Watch the following videos on YouTube:
Media Literacy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt2CaHXuyWU https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=Z5oplRuX5UE
Information Literacies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbe6xBibOL4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=cZB3bluhIb8

1. What important things did you learn from the videos?

1.1. Media Literacy

Media literacy is the ability to identify different types of media and understand the messages
they're sending. Kids take in a huge amount of information from a wide array of sources, far
beyond the traditional media (TV, radio, newspapers, and magazines) of most parents' youth.
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.

The digital age has made it easy for anyone to create media. We don't always know who
created something, why they made it, and whether it's credible. This makes media literacy
tricky to learn and teach. Nonetheless, media literacy is an essential skill in the digital age.It
is more important now in todays generation because it helps us to:

 Learn to think critically. As kids evaluate media, they decide whether the messages make
sense, why certain information was included, what wasn't included, and what the key ideas
are. They learn to use examples to support their opinions. Then they can make up their own
minds about the information based on knowledge they already have.

 Become a smart consumer of products and information. Media literacy helps kids learn
how to determine whether something is credible. It also helps them determine the "persuasive
intent" of advertising and resist the techniques marketers use to sell products.
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ISABELA STATE UNIVERSITY
COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
Echague Campus

 Recognize point of view. Every creator has a perspective. Identifying an author's point of
view helps kids appreciate different perspectives. It also helps put information in the context
of what they already know -- or think they know.

 Create media responsibly. Recognizing your own point of view, saying what you want to
say how you want to say it, and understanding that your messages have an impact is key to
effective communication.

 Identify the role of media in our culture. From celebrity gossip to magazine covers to
memes, media is telling us something, shaping our understanding of the world, and even
compelling us to act or think in certain ways.

 Understand the author's goal. What does the author want you to take away from a piece of
media? Is it purely informative, is it trying to change your mind, or is it introducing you to
new ideas you've never heard of? When kids understand what type of influence something
has, they can make informed choices.

1.2. Information Literacy

The definition of an information literate person extends beyond school and application to
academic problems--such as writing a research paper--and reaches right into the workplace.
Information literacy is also important to effective and enlightened citizenry, and has
implications that can impact the lives of many people around the globe.

The ability to use information technologies effectively to find and manage information,
and the ability to critically evaluate and ethically apply that information to solve a problem
are some of the hallmarks of an information literate individual. Other characteristics of an
information literate individual include the spirit of inquiry and perseverance to find out what
is necessary to get the job done.

We live in the Information Age, and "information" is increasing at a rapid pace. We have
the Internet, television, radio, and other information resources available to us 24 hours a day,
7 days a week. However, just because so much information is so easily and quickly available
does not mean that all of it is worthwhile or even true.

Finding dependable information is especially important in the digital/internet age, where

millions of ideas can be discovered in half a second but where much of that information is
outdated or worthless.

Handling the materials correctly is important, too; this includes giving full credit when
using materials created by others.
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ISABELA STATE UNIVERSITY
COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
Echague Campus

2. Name the media you use most often and explain briefly why for the following:

2.1. News programs

*Facebook

They we’re highlighting the most viewed organic content in News Feed, and
also Facebook is the most trending social media up on today’s generation so
whenever you want to search or you need to update about the news day by day
there are specific pages or links that is very reliable to search with and verified by
Facebook company.

2.2. Music streaming apps

*YouTube/ YouTube Music

YouTube is first and foremost a video portal, the world’s largest and most popular
online collection of moving images. But it’s also a search engine, the world’s second largest,
trailing only its parent company, Google. And while the library on YouTube is made up of
videos, in practice it has also become the world’s largest streaming music service, used by
more people than well-known names like Spotify or Apple when it comes to consuming
songs and albums.

YouTube Music is a music streaming service developed by YouTube, a subsidiary of

Google. It provides a tailored interface for the service, oriented towards music streaming,
allowing users to browse through songs and music videos on YouTube based on genres,
playlists, and recommendations.

2.3. Online movies

*Netflix

Netflix is a subscription-based streaming service that allows our members to watch

TV shows and movies without commercials on an internet-connected device.
You can also download TV shows and movies to your iOS, Android, or Windows 10
device and watch without an internet connection.
The Netflix experience is included in your membership to give parents control while
kids enjoy family-friendly TV shows and movies in their own space. Kids profiles come with
PIN-protected parental controls that let you restrict the maturity rating of content kids can
watch and block specific titles you don’t want kids to see.
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COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
Echague Campus

2.4. Social media posts

* Instagram

If you’re avid social media users like us (and really, who isn’t these days?), you
probably noticed how the most popular social media platforms keep “borrowing” ideas
from each other. Should we be concerned they’ll eventually morph into a single Face-gram-
tube-chat?

Instagram is consistently staying ahead of the curve to remain one of the most
effective forms of social media for businesses. There are lots of reasons we love using
Instagram to share what’s new at Parkway Digital. These same reasons make Instagram the
best social media for other brands too.

Instagram has come a long way from its beginnings as a simple photo-sharing app.
Many of the app’s changes in the last decade make it easier for brands to create
conversations with your love ones.

Some features make it easier to engage. We love the ability to like comments, reply
to specific comments, ask questions and take polls in Stories, and send direct messages.
Others help businesses manage their brands’ image on the platform. These include
archiving posts, adding usernames and hashtags into the bio, and saving other users’ posts
into organized private collections. The latest features on Instagram are helping businesses
sell products, with shoppable posts and product stickers within Stories.

*Facebook

Facebook is the largest social platform. We use it to see what our network is doing in
their day-to-day activities.

Facebook is where we share photos of our children, our accomplishments, our

marriage, our engagement, etc. For better or worse, people who are on Facebook are there to
see what their friends, or even people who they vaguely know are doing at all times. Going
on Facebook is often a mindless activity where we are just scrolling through our newsfeed
before even realizing we are doing so.

*Twitter

While many use Twitter to connect with their immediate social network, it's typically a
place where we go for niche content that interests us. For example, I follow news
publications, fellow marketers- from all over the world most of whom I've never met, and
other relevant marketing users.
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ISABELA STATE UNIVERSITY
COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
Echague Campus

3. As future Mathematics teacher, why is it important to be media and information

literate?

The impact of technology advances on media creation and consumption, however, is

certainly not new; inventions like the printing press, radio, television, the internet, and
now connected devices have similarly made media more accessible to consumers and
have gradually made it easier for people to create media as well.

Throughout this time, media literacy has grown and evolved, so it makes sense that
this continue to be a focus. However, it is also essential to understand that recent
advancements and event – the polarization of news sources, the advent of fake news, and
the broad mechanisms to disseminate these slanted and false media – have made media
literacy even more relevant and necessary.

“The truth is media literacy is this huge umbrella that encompasses many topics
(propaganda, bias, stereotypes, representation, agenda setting, and more). Unfortunately,
the phrase media literacy today is being used to mean everything from information
literacy to digital literacy.

“At its core, media literacy refers to the abilities to access, analyze, evaluate, and
communicate various media messages,” which has recently grown to “focus more on
competencies related to participation and creation.”

The fact is that media literacy is a worldview – it cultivates a different perspective to

everything we read, see, and hear. It’s counterculture in a lot of ways to the quick
snippets of information that inundate us every day. Media literacy attempts to cut through
this, to reframe how people understand and conceptualize information, data, and media.
This worldview is essential to democratic and digital citizenship and, ultimately,
enhances how we live; media literacy is liberating – it enables us to form our own
judgements, educate ourselves, and model for others.

4. Why is it important to teach media and information literacy to students?

The benefits of media literacy for students are multiple. First and foremost, media
literacy helps students become wiser consumers of media as well as responsible
producers of their own media. Along those same lines, teaching media literacy helps to
foster critical thinking in students. This type of thinking can eventually become second
nature, which will help them in many areas as they grow older. The focus is more on
strengthening process skills, not content knowledge.

In a larger context, media literacy also fosters the skills that help people work
together in collaboration because it encourages respectful discourse and builds
citizenship skills.
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ISABELA STATE UNIVERSITY
COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
Echague Campus

Media literacy will continue to play a key role in creating a new generation that can
retain critical thinking skills in the midst of a media blizzard. It’s an area where
teachers who learn about media literacy can have a profound impact.

5. In this time of pandemic and online learning, how do you demonstrate your media and
information literacy?

The COVID-19 has resulted in schools shut all across the world. Globally, over 1.2
billion children are out of the classroom. As result, education has changed dramatically, with
the distinctive rise of e-learning, whereby teaching is undertaken remotely and on digital
platforms.

Online learning has been shown to increase retention of information, and take less time,
meaning the changes coronavirus have caused might be here to stay.

With this sudden shift away from the classroom in many parts of the globe, some are
wondering whether the adoption of online learning will continue to persist post-pandemic,
and how such a shift would impact the worldwide education market.
There are, however, challenges to overcome. Some students without reliable internet
access and/or technology struggle to participate in digital learning; this gap is seen across
countries and between income brackets within countries.
Nevertheless, the effectiveness of online learning varies amongst age groups. The general
consensus on children, especially younger ones, is that a structured environment is required,
because kids are more easily distracted. To get the full benefit of online learning, there needs
to be a concerted effort to provide this structure and go beyond replicating a physical
class/lecture through video capabilities, instead, using a range of collaboration tools and
engagement methods that promote “inclusion, personalization and intelligence”,
Major world events are often an inflection point for rapid innovation – a clear example is
the rise of e-commerce post-SARS. While we have yet to see whether this will apply to e-
learning post-COVID-19, it is one of the few sectors where investment has not dried up.
What has been made clear through this pandemic is the importance of disseminating
knowledge across borders, companies, and all parts of society. If online learning technology
can play a role here, it is incumbent upon all of us to explore its full potential.