MEDIA AND INFORMATION LITERACY L1 P1(PRELIMS)

Media and Information Literacy (MIL)

It is the capability to access, analyze, and invent data.

Article 19 of the Declaration of Human Rights

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes the freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive, and impart information and ideas through any media, regardless of frontiers.

Media Literacy

It is the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, create, reflect, and act using all forms of communication.

Media literacy helps people to

  1. Develop critical thinking.

  2. Understanding how media messages shape our culture and society

  3. Identify target marketing strategies.

  4. Recognize what the media maker wants us to believe or do.

  5. Name the techniques of persuasion used.

  1. Recognize bias, spin, misinformation, and lies.

  2. Discover the parts of the story that are not being told

  3. Evaluate media messages based on our experiences, skills, beliefs, and values

  4. Create and distribute our own media.

  5. Advocate for media justice.

information Literacy

It is a set of skills requiring people to organize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information.

Information is available in

  • Library

  • Community

  • Media

  • Organization

 

Technology Literacy

It is the skill of the person to work independently with others, take responsibility, and appropriately and effectively use technology tools to access, manage, integrate, create, and communicate information.