MEDIA AND INFORMATION

LITERACY (MIL)
INFORMATION LITERACY
Ethical Use of Information

Alibijid National Comprehensive High School

Senior High School Department
 LEARNING COMPETENCIES
Learners will be able to…
• define information literacy (SSHS);
• identify and explain the components of
information literacy (SSHS);
• define information needs (MIL11/12IL-IIIc-8);
• locate, access, assess, organize, and communicate
information (MIL11/12IL-IIIc-8);
 LEARNING COMPETENCIES
Learners will be able to
• demonstrate ethical use of information
(MIL11/12IL-IIIc-9);
• produce and evaluate a creative text, visual, and
audio based presentation using design principle
and elements (MIL11/12TIM-IVb-6/
MIL11/12VIM-IVc-10/ MIL11/12AIM-Ivd)
 Right or Wrong?

A person in your gym class fails to close his

or her locker properly. You help yourself to
their scientific calculator because you can’t
afford one and they were stupid enough not
to lock their locker.
 Right or Wrong?

You find a pair of Bomber sweats in the

weight room. Someone took yours last year,
so you take this pair. Now you’re even.
 Right or Wrong?

You get an essay back from a teacher, and

you’ve got a good mark. Someone in the
class who hasn’t done theirs yet asks you
for it. You let them have it because you don’t
want to look like a geek, and anyway, you’re
not the one who is cheating.
 Right or Wrong?

You are researching a project on World War

I. You get lots of information from the online
encyclopedia and the Internet. You cut and
paste it into a great essay, complete with
photographs. You do not say where you got
your information from, because you want the
teacher to think they were all your ideas.
Stealing is WRONG!!!

Whether you take an

object, an idea or
someone’s work.
 Plagiarism is THEFT

• using the ideas and writings of others and

representing them as your own.
• taking the work, skills and ideas of
another person and pretending they are
your own is intellectual theft.
 Why do people PLAGIARIZE?

• Not knowing any better

• Pressure/competition
• Lack of confidence
• Work perceived as too hard
• Lack of consequences
• Boredom/lack of interest/laziness
• Arrogance
 Avoiding Plagiarism

• Taking good notes and keeping track of

your sources will help you avoid
plagiarism.
• 3 ways to use the information you find
• Summarizing
• Paraphrasing
• Quoting directly
 Summarizing
 Like paraphrase, a summary records information in
different words but much more briefly
 You write a general statement of the author’s
content or position
 Be sure each page has a heading and reference
to the source you used for your parenthetical
reference and bibliography
 YOU STILL NEED TO CITE YOUR SOURCE!
 Paraphrasing
 Translates all of the content into different words
 Helps you understand the material
 Records the author’s reasoning and details
 This is time consuming so be sure the
information you paraphrase is relevant
 YOU STILL NEED TO CITE THIS AS A SOURCE
 Direct Quotations
 Records the source’s exact words
 Use only when the author’s wording makes a point
extraordinarily vivid, concise or imaginative
 Too much can be time consuming, awkward, and
interfere with your really understanding the material
Creating a Reference List
 TIP:

Record your sources as you go!

 Books
Gough, B. (1997). First across the continent: Sir
Alexander MacKenzie. Toronto: McLellan &
Stewart.
 Website
Schrock, K. (1995, June 1). Kathy Schrock's
Guide for Educators. Retrieved December 11,
2004, from
http://school.discovery.com/schrock_guide/

GVU’s 8th www user survey. (n.d.). Retrieved

August 8, 2005, from
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/user_
surveys/survey=1997-10/
 Tip
The less reference information you can find on a
website, the less reliable its other information
tends to be.