MIL-NOTES
MIL-NOTES
What is literacy?
- UNESCO defines literacy as the ability to identify, understand, interpret, create, communicate,
and compute, using printed and written materials associated with varying context.
Media Literacy
Information Literacy
- The ability to recognize when information is needed, and to locate, evaluate, and effectively
communicate information in its various formats.
Technology Literacy
Personal Aspect
Professional Aspect
Educational Aspect
- Think critically and learn knowledge based on facts
- Proliferate information that are based on academics and/or factual sources
- Utilize media in exploring knowledge
Misinformation
- Refers to false information that is not intended to cause harm.
Disinformation
- Refers to false information that is intended to manipulate, cause damage, or guide people,
organization and countries in the wrong direction.
Mal-information
- Refers to information that stems from the truth but is often exaggerated in a way that mislead
and causes potential harm.
- Is a term often used to refer to channels of communication that were well-established before
the internet Age, such as:
Books
Newspaper
Magazines
Radio
Television
Sources of Information:
Libraries
Indigenous Media
Internet
What is Library?
- A place in which literary, musical, artistic, or reference materials (such as books, manuscripts,
recordings, or films) are kept for use but not for sale.
Academic Library
Public Library
School Library
Special Library
What is indigenous?
Indigenous knowledge
- Knowledge that is unique to a specific culture or society; most often it is not written down.
Indigenous communication
Indigenous Media
- May be defined as forms of media expression conceptualized, produced, and circulated by
indigenous peoples around the globe as vehicles for communication.
What is internet?
- Authorship
- Publishing body
- Accuracy and Verifiability
- Currency
Additional topic:
T- Think
H- Helpful
I-Inspiring or Informative
N- Necessary
K- Kind