Weekly Interaction Log with Information and Information Providers

Media or Information Provider Number of hours in a week

Youtube 3 hours

Facebook 12 hours

Television 20 hours

Books 10 hrs

IG 1 hr
• Media and Information Literacy recognizes the primary role
of Media and Information in our everyday lives. The purpose
of being an Information and Media Literate is to engage in a
digital society where one needs to be able to use,
understand, inquire, create, communicate and think critically.
It is important to have the capacity to effectively access,
organize, evaluate, and create messages in a variety of forms.
Information and Media Literacy enables people to interpret
and make informed judgments as users of information and
media as well as to become skilful creators ad producers of
information and media messages in their own right. To
become a Media Literate is not to memorize facts or statistics
about media but rather to learn, to raise the right questions
about what you are watching, reading, or listening to and to
be an Information Literate a person must be able to recognize
when information is needed and have the ability to locate,
evaluate, and use effectively the needed information because
you are a medium of spreading significant information in the
community.
• Being Media and Information literate is not just for
yourself to understand but for you to spread the
information to others. As we all know that teenagers
nowadays are into SNS (Social Networking Sites) where
most teenagers learn and understand on what is
happening to their surroundings and being able to know,
they share what they read. Through sharing (the
information in SNS), people are able to communicate and
spread awareness to everyone. With this kind of mindset
for such digital users, it can help others know that being
into social media is not just a disadvantage, but it has a
great role for everyone to be a Media and Information
Literate. There are advantages and disadvantages of
media being a media information literate individual. The
disadvantage of this is sometimes your ideas or opinions
can affect other people and the advantage is sometimes
it motivates and inspire other people.
• People are no longer limited to the desktop
computer. People now use mobile technologies
since its very accessible to every one. Media and
Information Literacy therefore is about helping any
one to become competent, critical, and literate in all
media forms so that they control the interpretation
of what they see or hear rather than letting the
interpretation control them. It also promotes entry
to information and knowledge, and building
knowledge societies. It also produces careful and
critical thinkers.
• In other words, Media and Information Literacy will
help you become a brilliant receiver and sender of
information in media and in any other platform.
• “Media literacy is not just important, it’s
absolutely critical. It’s going to make the
difference between whether kids are a tool of
the mass media or whether the mass media is a
tool for kids to use.”
― Linda Ellerbee
• “Do not believe all that you hear and see.
Always check the original source of
information.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita