MEDIA INFORMATION LITERACY
-plays important role in communication and information dissemination. Enable us to access, understand and create communication in a variety in context.
MEDIA LITERACY
- is a 21st century approach to education and set of skills that anyone can learn. It is ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and create media messages of all kinds.
ACCESSING MEDIA & INFORMATION
- the use, navigate, manage, store and retrieve content in print, radio and online.
UNDERSTANDING MEDIA AND INFORMATION
-viewers ability to read, deconstruct, critique and evaluate media contexts and motivation.
PRODUCING MEDIA AND INFORMATION
- viewers or netizens
Media literacy can help children, youth and adults:
-understand how media messages create meaning
-identify who created a particular media message
-recognize what the media maker wants us to believe or do
-name the "tools of persuasion" used
- recognized bias, lies and misinformation
- discover the untold part of the story
- evaluate media messages based on our own
Basic Concept of MIL
1) Media construct our culture
2) Media messages affect our thoughts, attitudes and actions
3) Media use "the language of persuassion"
4) Media construct fantasy worlds
5) Media messages contain "texts" and "subtext"
6) Media messages reflect the values and viewpoints of media makers
7) individuals
Information Literacy
-is a transformational process in which the learner needs to find, understand, evaluate and use information in various forms.
Technology Literacy
-is the ability of an individual working independently and with others to responsibly, appropriately and effectively use technology tools to access, manage integrate, evaluate, create and communicate information.
