MIL (Prelims) - 1st Semester

1st qtr - terms

20%

literacy rate prior to World War 1

75%

The rise of the public school system made the literacy rate rise to this much percent in the years after 1930.

literacy

a set of “skills that includes the ability to read with comprehension and write simple messages”

Numeracy

involves the ability to use numbers and perform the most basic mathematical functions.

Sustainable Development Goals

SDGs

functional literacy

beyond basic literacy is a category called __________________

functionally literate person

someone “who can engage in all activities in which basic literacy is required for the effective functioning of his or her group and community and also for enabling him or her to continue to use reading, writing, and calculation for his or her own and the community’s development”

Office of the Economic Cooperation and Development

OECD

technical skills

read, write, measure, compute, etc.

civic literacies and digital age literacies

tow major categories that constitute what we have referred to as a new set of literacies.

Civic literacies

which are about the skills and competencies necessary to engage with communities and societies as citizens of a democracy.D

digital age literacies

an ensemble of the skills and knowledges necessary to navigate the internet and the ever-expanding world of digital technology.

Computer literacy

involves knowing how to use the computer independently—both its software and hardware components.

Technological literacy

is also about the use of computer and emerging technologies such as mobile phones, tablets, video conferencing facilities, multimedia equipment, and other devices that are products of human innovation.

technology literate person

someone who appreciates and understands the role of technology in society, how it shapes history, and how society is shaped by it.

Visual literacy

a group of vision-competencies a human can develop by seeing and at the same time having and integrating other sensory experiences.

Visual literay

first defined by John Debes in 1969

visually literate person

someone who can integrate visual information with those presented in other forms( such as text); he/she can also interpret visual information, decode meanings, and find its congruence with the information it is presented with.

News literacy

is all about appreciating, understanding, and verifying the reliability and credibility of information that comes from a new source, whether it comes from print, radio, television, or the Internet.

Civic literacy

a body of skills, knowledge, and attitudes that enable a citizen to actively participate and initiate changes in the community and the greater society.

civitas

The word civic is derived from __________, the Greek word for citizen.

Civic, or civics

pertains to the discipline that tackles the relationship of the citizen to the state

pakikipagkapwa

thinking beyond the self, reaching out to a fellow or a kapwa, or always keeping others in mind in every action being done

Civic participation

is not only about participating in elections; it is also about forging a consciousness that an individual’s actions

Civic literate individual

possesses an increasing awareness of issues in his/her immediate community.

Environment literacy

is the ability to recognize that an individual choice or action has implications for the environment and the knowledge to identify the most efficient and, more importantly, sustainable solution to a problem.

Environmental-literate citizens

are expected to know basic environmental information, the ways by which human actions harms the environment, and the potentials and limits of human practices to alter natural processes in the environment.

Financial literacy

relates to an individual’s capacity to manage inflows and outflows of money.

financially literate individuals

they are competent and can demonstrate they have used the knowledge they have learned

Multicultural literacy

is best understood using the lens of difference.

multiculturally literate citizen

recognizes and respects the presence of others in his/her immediate community and society who are different from him/her and that diversity creates a rich tapestry of human beings.

Media literacy

the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and create media in a variety of forms and across a variety of platforms

multiculturally literate institution

starts with the individual as part of a cultural system and moves to the recognition that the individual belongs to a bigger cultural community.

Knowledge Age

The late 20th century, a period of major social, economic, and political changes.

Communication

people or groups of people imparting or exchanging messages through speaking, writing, gestures, or even using symbolic forms.

Interpersonal communication

a form of communication that involves two or three individuals interacting through the use of their voices and bodies

mediated interpersonal communication

instances when mediated devices enable these forms of communication. Technology stands in the way to make it happen.

Small group communication

involves messages between two or three persons.

Organizational communication

involves sending and receiving of messages among individuals under one organization or located in one working environment

Source

where the message is coming from

Encoding

process by which a message is translated so it can be transmitted and communicated to another party.

Turow (2009)

outlined the eight elements that constitute the creation of a message

Transmitting

The act of sending the message.

Channels

Technologies that enable the act of sending or transmitting. i.e. telephone, tv, radio, print media.

Decoding

The transmitted impulses are converted to signs as the brain perceives and processes them. Reverse of encoding.

Process by which the receiver translates the source’s thoughts and ideas, so they can have meaning.

Receiver

The one who gets the message that was transmitted through the channels. Can be an individual or an organization.

Feedback

the response generated by the mesage that was sent to the receiver. Either immediate or delayed

Noise Interference

there are elements that interfere in the transmittal process. May be treated literally and figuratively.