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MIL LESSON

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INFORMATION

TECHNOLOGY
MIL LESSON 3
Literacy is widely known as the ability to read and write. The
advent of modernity and the expansion of access to general
education has enabled societies to produce literate
populations. Literacy always associated with a set of tangible
skills, particularly the skills of writing and reading. Its
counterpart is the concept of numeracy, which is the skills
associated with basic mathematical operations involving
numbers.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO) cites the importance of literacy in the
modern world: “Literacy is a fundamental human right and the
foundation for lifelong learning. It is fully essential to social
and human development in its ability to transform lives. For
individuals, families, and societies alike, it is an instrument of
empowerment to improve one’s health, one’s income, and
one’s relationship with the world.” (UNESCO, 2003)
Empowerment is very significant in our appreciation of
how literacy provides us with means to access the world of
knowledge so we can lead better lives. Empowerment is an
idea of power, as linked on the idea that power can change,
that the ownership of power can shift form one entity to
another. Empowerment is also possible because power can
expand or diminish as the case may be. “Let us first review
our notions of power.
Power is often related to our ability to
make others do what we want, regardless of
their own wishes or interests (Weber, 1946).
Power is not always relational. One needs to
cultivate a notion of power within to fully
realize. True enough, power can reside
inside, you given the opportunity to access
the knowledge, skills, and attitudes.
INFORMATION AND
INTERNET
Information can be the answer to a
question, a news, or a data. It is that
which informs, that which enables us to
know and something also communicable.
The internet arose in 1968, but it was in
1989 when a fully developed World Wide
Web (WWW) arose and turned it into the
global platform for knowledge-sharing,
communication, and achieving.
The Internet is an increasingly important part of everyday life
for people around the world. It is a global network of billions of
computers and other electronic devices. With the Internet, it's
possible to access almost any information, communicate with
anyone else in the world, and do much more.
The World Wide Web—usually called the Web for short—is a
collection of different websites you can access through the
Internet. A website is made up of related text, images, and
other resources. Websites can resemble other forms
of media—like newspaper articles or television programs—or
they can be interactive in a way that's unique to computers.
WHO PUTS INFORMATION ON THE INTERNET?
There are many sites created by different people or organizations with
different objectives. The three-letter code preceded by a dot (.), simply known
as the domain, gives you a fairly good idea of who is publishing the internet site.

Domain Names Equivalent


.edu Educational institution
.com Mostly commercial entities, some of
which are profit-oriented.

.org Non-profit organization


.gov Government organizations
.net Internet services providers or
network
SOURCES OF INFORMATION

1. Popular Publications
Most of what rules in the print and non-print media are
popular publications with the general public as its target
audience. Included under this category are journalistic
articles, features articles, manuals, flyers, fact sheets,
and even blogs by netizens. They serve to both inform and
entertain the general public.
2. Scholarly Publications
These are well-researched articles found mostly
in academic journals and published for the specialists of a
specific field. The language is very technical because it is
geared toward the consumption of specialists, scholars, and
those seeking research-based information on a particular
area of knowledge such the social science, the natural
sciences, and the arts and humanities.
3. Trade Publication
These are also highly specialized materials meant for
the players and specialists of a specific industry. Some
good examples are publications on motoring or
publications on construction. Trade publications
combine popular appeal and specialized knowledge
because it also needs to attract the non-specialist who are
the potential consumers of users of a particular product.
FORMAT OF INFORMATION
Format Description
Print Materials produced and collected from print
resources (books, newspapers, and other periodicals,
manuscripts, correspondence, memoranda, loose leaf
materials, notes, brochures, etc.).

Digital format Digital materials are information materials that


are stored in an electronic format on a hard drive,
CD-ROM, remote server, or even the Cloud. These
could be electronic books, database websites, video,
and audio materials. These materials may be accessed
with a computer and/or through the internet.
Format Description
Audio and video format Materials collected using analog technology in
video (television, video, recordings) tools
presented in recorded tapes, CDs, audio-
cassettes, reel to reel tapes, record albums, etc.
As differentiated from digital technology, these
sources of information are recorded using
analog technology which means data is recorded
in advance from one point to another. Analog
devices read the material by scanning the
physical data off the media.

Microform This includes materials that have been


photographed and their images developed in
reduced-size film strips and which are viewed
using machines with magnifying lenses.

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