medlit

MEDLIT

literacy

  • not just read and write

  • skills to access, evaluate, use, and communicate information in various formats, including digital

Media

- combination of physical objects used to communicate message


Information

  • - processed data

  • - Knowledge of specific events or experiences


Technology

  • - Systematic application

  • - the science in industry, engineering, to invent useful things


media & information literacy

  • - capability to access, analyze, and invent media

  • - enables people to show and make informed judgements


Media literacy

- enables people to analyze, evaluate, and create messages 


5 properties of media Literacy

1. Media are construtions

- created by individuals who make conscious and

unconscious choices


2. Audience Negotiate Meaning

- media product is not solely based on producers

- collaboration with audience


3. Media have commercial Implications

- business and profit


4. Media have social & Political Implication

- messages about power, values, and authority

- unconscious


5. Each medium has a unique aesthetic form

-content of media


Technology Literacy

- acquire relevant information and use modern tools

- 3 principles of Technology Literature

  • convenience 

  •  Efficacy

  •  Accessibility


Tech literate

  • Knowing how to use tools

  •  knowing which information is trustworthy & using tech safely


information literacy

Ability to find, evaluate, and use information effectively.


Stages of information literacy

  • Identify and recognize the need for information

  •  Determine different soures of information

  •  cite or research for info

  •  analyze and evaluate the quality of info

  •  Organize or store info

  • Use info in an ethical, efficient, and effective way

  •  Create and communicate new knowledge


Factors to consider in credible sources

* website is from trusted organization

* has an affiliated author

* updated and relevant 


Concepts

  • * Content knowledge

  • - can be found in numerous places


* Interpretations

- must document facts that are not generally known


* Plagiarism

- using someone else's work without giving credit


* Quotations

- borrowing someone's else exact words


*  Paraphrasing

- using own words to rephrase the same idea


* Translating

- translate a person's language


* Ethical

- rule that tells an action is right or wrong


* Unethical

- act of not adhering to the proper rules of conduct


Legal consequences

* Copyright Law

* Fair use Policy


Pre Industrial Age

  1. (Before 1700s)

  2. - also know as the prehistoric age

  3. - hominids discovered lise, developed paper from plants

  4. - birth of communication in media

  5. - hunting & gathering


Pre Industrial Age Media

  • * Cave paintings (35, 000 BC)

  • * Papyrus in Egypt (2500 BC)

  • * Clay Tablets in Mesopotamia (2400 BC)

  • * Acta Diurna in Rome (130 BC)

  • * Codex in Mayan Region (5th century )

  • * Printing press using Wood Blocks (220 AD)


Industrial Age (1700s - 1930s)

  • - product of harnessing the power of machines

  • - rise of communication


Industrial Age Media

  • * Printing press for mass production (19th century)

  • * Newspaper (1640)

  • * Typewriter (1800)

  • * Telephone (1876)

  • * Motion picture photography projection (1890)

  • * Telegraph