ACTIVITY

Identify whether each statement is TRUE or FALSE

1. Literacy is the ability to identify, understand, interpret,

create, communicate, and compute, using printed and
written materials associated with varying contexts.
2. All sources on the Internet are valid and true.
3. Indigenous knowledge is the unique knowledge confined to
a culture or society.
4. Libraries help us to fuel our imagination and expand our
knowledge.
5. Libraries are already dying because of modern technology.
 LITERACY
plays an important role in transforming the
students into socially engaged citizens. When a
person knows how to read and write, it means he
or she is also able to keep up with current events,
communicate efficiently and be fully aware of the
issues that are influencing our world. It is also
important that a person should be a media
literate as the world goes round with technology.
 SOURCES OF
INFORMATION
 Primary
Sources
Primary sources are original. Meaning,
these sources are not filtered,
interpreted, or evaluated yet. These
sources are raw, freshly coming from a
discovery, a new study, and others.
1. Artifacts
Coins, plant specimens, fossils, furniture, tools, clothing, all from the
time under study
2. Audio recordings
Recordings of radio programme
3. Diaries
Personal experiences
4. Internet Communication
E-mail conversations
5. Interviews
May be through oral histories, telephone, and e-mail
6. Letters
May be a snail mail or e-mail
7. Photographs
8. Speeches
9. Video recordings
Television programs
 10. Works of art,
architecture, literature, and
music
Paintings, sculptures,
musical scores,
buildings, novels,
poems
11. Others
• Poems
• Court records
• Surveys
• Original research/fieldwork
• Research published in
scholarly/academic journals
 Secondary
Sources
These are the interpreted and
evaluated versions of the primary
sources. Secondary sources are inclined
to commentaries and discussions about
primary sources, and therefore, not
considered evidences.
1. Biography
Life story of another person
2. Commentaries,
Criticism
3. Histories
4. Others
dictionaries, encyclopedias, textbooks, and
books and articles that interpret, review, or
synthesize original research/fieldwork.
 Tertiary
Sources
This kind of source is a collection of
primary and secondary sources.
1. anAlmanacs
annual calendar
containing important
dates and statistical
information such as
astronomical data
and tide tables.
2. Directories
3. Fact Books
4. Guide books
5. Manuals
Note:
There are sources of information
that are not clearly categorized
based on the first three lessons.
However, validity and reliability
should always be considered
regardless of where the information