shs.mapua.edu.ph shs.mapua.edu.ph shs.mapua.edu.ph shs.mapua.edu.ph What are the other effects of media and information to communication? shs.mapua.edu.ph LITERACY, WHAT? shs.mapua.edu.ph shs.mapua.edu.ph MEDIA LITERACY • It also refers to understanding and using mass media in either an assertive or non-assertive way, including an informed and critical understanding of media, the techniques they employ and their effects. Also the ability to read, analyze, evaluate and produce communication in a variety of media forms (e.g. television, print, radio, computers etc.). • Another understanding of the term is the ability to decode, analyze, evaluate and produce communication in a variety of forms. shs.mapua.edu.ph INFORMATION LITERACY • It refers to the ability to recognize when information is needed and to locate and evaluate this needed information from various media. This also includes communicating this information effectively in its various formats. • “A person trained to apply information resources in their work may be called information literate. This person has learned techniques and skills to use a broad range of information tools… to shape information solutions to fit their problems” (Kapitske, 2003, p. 39, as cited in Lau, 2013, p. 68). shs.mapua.edu.ph TECHNOLOGY LITERACY • This refers to the ability to effectively use technology to access, manage, integrate, evaluate, create and communicate information. shs.mapua.edu.ph shs.mapua.edu.ph MEDIA AND INFORMATION LITERACY shs.mapua.edu.ph shs.mapua.edu.ph shs.mapua.edu.ph shs.mapua.edu.ph shs.mapua.edu.ph “By being MIL competent, citizens: 1. are able to access, evaluate, produce, and disseminate information and media content using appropriate technology; 2. understand and know their information and media rights and their responsibility for demanding free, independent, and diverse information and media systems; 3. understand the role and functions of information providers and media, as well as the conditions under which these functions can be performed; and 4. are able to create knowledge and share it widely as well as know how to engage with information providers and media for self-expression and democratic participation” (Kasinskaite-Buddeberg, 2013, p. 27). shs.mapua.edu.ph shs.mapua.edu.ph How media, information, and technology literate am I? shs.mapua.edu.ph References • Commission on Higher Education. (2016). Teaching guide for senior high school. Media and information literacy. Core subject. Quezon City: Commission on Higher Education. • Grizzle, A., Moore, P., Dezuanni, M., Asthana, S., Wilson, C., Banda, F., & Onumah, C. (2013). Media and information literacy: Policy and strategy guidelines (A. Grizzle & M.C.T. Calvo, Eds.). France: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. Retrieved from https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000225606 • Kasinskaite-Buddeberg, I. (2013). Towards a holistic approach to literacy: Media and information literacy. In E. Kuzmin & A. Parshakova (Comps.) & T. Butkova, Y. Kuptsov, & A. Parshakova (Trans.), Media and information literacy for knowledge societies (pp. 23-28). Moscow: Interregional Library Cooperation Centre. Retrieved from http://ifapcom.ru/files/News/Images/2013/mil_eng_web.pdf • Lau, J. (2013). Information skills: Conceptual convergence between information and communication sciences. In E. Kuzmin & A. Parshakova (Comps.) & T. Butkova, Y. Kuptsov, & A. Parshakova (Trans.), Media and information literacy for knowledge societies (pp. 63-77). Moscow: Interregional Library Cooperation Centre. Retrieved from http://ifapcom.ru/files/News/Images/2013/mil_eng_web.pdf shs.mapua.edu.ph End of Presentation shs.mapua.edu.ph