The document discusses the essential competency of using information in everyday life, detailing methods of gathering it such as listening, reading, and observation. It classifies information sources into primary, secondary, and tertiary categories, explaining the distinctions between them and providing examples for each. Additionally, it highlights various types of informative content like news reports, speeches, informative talks, and panel discussions.

1. INFORMATION FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES

2. Most Essential Learning Competency:
Use information for everyday life
usage.

3. Information
Are facts provided or learned about
something or someone. (Oxford
Dictionary)
WHAT IS INFORMATION?

4. METHODS OF GATHERING INFORMATION
Examples:
 Listening
 Reading
 Interviews
 Questioning
 Questionnaires
 Observation
 Study of existing reports

5. RELEVANT SOURCES OF INFORMATION
1.News Reports
2.Speeches
3.Informative Talks
4.Panel Discussion

6. NEWS REPORTS
- are found in newspapers, televisions, or radios
which aim to inform the readers of what is
happening in the world around them.

7. SPEECH
- Refers to the formal address or discourse
delivered to an audience.

8. INFORMATIVE TALKS
- tend to educate the audience on a particular
topic.
- It helps the audience understand a subject
better and to remember what they learned later.

9. PANEL DISCUSSION
- Is a live or virtual discussion about a
specific topic amongst a selected group of
panelists who share differing perspectives
in front of a large audience.

10. How to classify sources of information?
Primary Source
Secondary
Source
Tertiary Source

11. Primary Source
• Provides direct or firsthand information about an
event, person, object, or work of art.
• They are original materials which have not been
interpreted, condensed, or evaluated by a
secondary party.
• Materials that were created at the time the event
occurred or by those who experienced the event.

12. Primary Source
Diary Interview

13. Secondary
Source
• offers an analysis or restatement of primary
sources
• materials which summarize, interpret, reorganize,
or otherwise provide an added value to a primary
source
• created after the event; created by someone not
from the time period

14. Secondary
Source

15. Tertiary Source
• Lists., compiles, or indexes primary and secondary
sources.
• These sources are often used to look up facts or get a
general idea about something.
Remember!
Some reference materials and textbooks are
considered tertiary sources when their chief purpose is
to list, summarize or simply repackage ideas or other
information.

16. Tertiary Source