Every day we encounter an increasingly large and diverse sea of information through the Web, mass media, and published works. You can find information in many different formats, from an endless number of sources. The quality of information varies greatly between the available information choices. Just think of a typical internet search; it is common to retrieve authoritative, current, and reliable sources alongside biased, outdated, misleading, or false sources. Furthermore, an online search is likely to result in more information than can be effectively handled. The sheer amount and variety of information available to us makes information literacy competencies important to master! Show
Information literacy skills are vital to success in your personal, professional, and academic life. In college, you use these skills to perform well on research papers, projects, and presentations. At work you will likely encounter situations where you must seek out new information to make logical decisions. In the home, you are constantly faced with deciding consumer issues and forming opinions on social and political topics. Each situation requires engagement in the information literacy process. Hans Kirby Paras 74% found this document useful (34 votes) 87K views 23 pages Description:wala lang to Original TitleMEIL-122 WEEK 1-10 Copyright© © All Rights Reserved Available FormatsDOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd Share this documentDid you find this document useful?Is this content inappropriate?Report this Document 74% found this document useful (34 votes) 87K views23 pages Meil-122 Week 1-10Original Title:MEIL-122 WEEK 1-10 Uploaded byHans Kirby Paras Description:wala lang to Full description Module 1 : Citizenship, Freedom of Expression and Information, Access to Information, Democratic Discourse and Life-long LearningDuration: 2 Hours KEY TOPICS:
LEARNING OBJECTIVESAt the end of this module teachers should be able to:
PEDAGOGICAL APPROACHES and ACTIVITIESMULTIPLE ROLES OF MEDIAMedia and other information providers play a central role in information and communication processes. They are one way of communicating information, although their role is much broader than that. For the purpose of the MIL curriculum, media are defined (irrespective of the nature and technologies used) as sources of credible and current information created through an editorial process determined by journalistic values whereby editorial accountability can be attributed to a specific organization or a legal person. To the extent that media are an important part of every society’s communication system, their institutional make-up can mesh with a variety of non-media information providers, such as libraries, museums, archives, Internet information providers, other information organizations and citizens who produce their own content.Media play several roles. They:
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Is the ability to analyze and evaluate media messages?Media Literacy is the ability to access, analyze, evaluate and create media in a variety of forms. Definitions, however, evolve over time and a more robust definition is now needed to situate media literacy in the context of its importance for the education of students in a 21st century media culture.
How do you analyze a media message?Key Questions to ask when ANALYZING media messages:. Who made this?. When was it made?. Who paid for this?. What does this tell me about [insert topic]?. What are the sources of information?. What is left out that might be important to know?. What techniques are used and why?. How do the techniques communicate the message?. Which of these is a general term that refers to the means of distributing information to large audiences?Mass media means technology that is intended to reach a mass audience. It is the primary means of communication used to reach the vast majority of the general public. The most common platforms for mass media are newspapers, magazines, radio, television, and the Internet.
What does it mean to deconstruct a media message?A basic media literacy skill is “deconstruction.” This is the careful and close analysis of a piece of media, looking beneath the surface – the characters, plot, language, etc. – to understand its deeper meanings.
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