MEDIA AND INFORMATION
LITERACY (MIL)
INFORMATION LITERACY
Ethical Use of Information
Alibijid National Comprehensive High School
Senior High School Department
LEARNING COMPETENCIES
Learners will be able to…
• define information literacy (SSHS);
• identify and explain the components of
information literacy (SSHS);
• define information needs (MIL11/12IL-IIIc-8);
• locate, access, assess, organize, and communicate
information (MIL11/12IL-IIIc-8);
LEARNING COMPETENCIES
Learners will be able to
• demonstrate ethical use of information
(MIL11/12IL-IIIc-9);
• produce and evaluate a creative text, visual, and
audio based presentation using design principle
and elements (MIL11/12TIM-IVb-6/
MIL11/12VIM-IVc-10/ MIL11/12AIM-Ivd)
Right or Wrong?
A person in your gym class fails to close his
or her locker properly. You help yourself to
their scientific calculator because you can’t
afford one and they were stupid enough not
to lock their locker.
Right or Wrong?
You find a pair of Bomber sweats in the
weight room. Someone took yours last year,
so you take this pair. Now you’re even.
Right or Wrong?
You get an essay back from a teacher, and
you’ve got a good mark. Someone in the
class who hasn’t done theirs yet asks you
for it. You let them have it because you don’t
want to look like a geek, and anyway, you’re
not the one who is cheating.
Right or Wrong?
You are researching a project on World War
I. You get lots of information from the online
encyclopedia and the Internet. You cut and
paste it into a great essay, complete with
photographs. You do not say where you got
your information from, because you want the
teacher to think they were all your ideas.
Stealing is WRONG!!!
Whether you take an
object, an idea or
someone’s work.
Plagiarism is THEFT
• using the ideas and writings of others and
representing them as your own.
• taking the work, skills and ideas of
another person and pretending they are
your own is intellectual theft.
Why do people PLAGIARIZE?
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Not knowing any better
Pressure/competition
Lack of confidence
Work perceived as too hard
Lack of consequences
Boredom/lack of interest/laziness
Arrogance
Avoiding Plagiarism
• Taking good notes and keeping track of
your sources will help you avoid
plagiarism.
• 3 ways to use the information you find
• Summarizing
• Paraphrasing
• Quoting directly
Summarizing
 Like paraphrase, a summary records information in
different words but much more briefly
 You write a general statement of the author’s
content or position
 Be sure each page has a heading and reference
to the source you used for your parenthetical
reference and bibliography
 YOU STILL NEED TO CITE YOUR SOURCE!
Paraphrasing
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Translates all of the content into different words
Helps you understand the material
Records the author’s reasoning and details
This is time consuming so be sure the
information you paraphrase is relevant
YOU STILL NEED TO CITE THIS AS A SOURCE
Direct Quotations
 Records the source’s exact words
 Use only when the author’s wording makes a point
extraordinarily vivid, concise or imaginative
 Too much can be time consuming, awkward, and
interfere with your really understanding the material
Creating a Reference List
 TIP:
Record your sources as you go!
Books
Gough, B. (1997). First across the
continent: Sir
Alexander MacKenzie. Toronto: McLellan &
Stewart.
Website
Schrock, K. (1995, June 1). Kathy
Schrock's
Guide for Educators. Retrieved December 11,
2004, from
http://school.discovery.com/schrock_guide/
GVU’s 8th www user survey. (n.d.). Retrieved
August 8, 2005, from
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/user_
surveys/survey=1997-10/
Tip
The less reference information you can find on a
website, the less reliable its other information
tends to be.