Lesson 2:

Locating and Accessing

Media and Information
Content and Sources
Location of and Access
to Information
Information and knowledge are
crucial to our survival. Filipino
families need to be able aware of
current events, news on the
government, prices of basic
commodities, health and nutrition and
disasters and calamities, among
others.
In this digital age,
sources of information
have become readily
available, as we can
simply surf the internet
for answers to our daily
concerns, big or small.
Digital divide is a situation in which
disparity in access to information
exists between information-rich and
information-poor societies.

- Denying people access to

information prevents them from
exercising their freedom of
expression and participating in civic
activities.
 How do we locate and access
information efficiently from the mass
media and the internet?
•Accessing programs and
stations on television and
radios
•Accessing newspaper
•Searching online
Dr. Ann Marlow Riedling, author of the book An
Educator's Guide to Information Literacy(2007),
recommends a presearch analysis when searching online
to help students focus on the information they may already
have. The ff. are the guide questions that we need to ask
ourselves:
• What is your topic?
• What unique words, specific name of people and/or of
organizations or abbreviations/acronyms are associated
with your topic?
• What professional societies or agencies,
organizations, or groups might have information on your
subject?
• What resources, articles, websites, news stories and
the like do you already have about the topic? What
leads can you gain from them?
 Some of the strategies in online
searching include the following:
• Identifying keywords and phrases that will serve as our
search terms
• Typing "AND" between our keywords to narrow our
search (e.g media AND internet)
• Typing "OR" between our keyboards to broaden our
search (e.g television or multimedia)
• Typing "NOT" or minus sign "-" before a keyword that
may have multiple meanings to exclude that keyword
from our search (e.g apple NOT computer brand)
• Using the word define followed by a colon and a search
term (e.g define: social media)