This document defines and compares media literacy, information literacy, and technology literacy. [1] Media literacy is the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and create various forms of media. [2] Information literacy is the ability to recognize when information is needed, locate, evaluate, and communicate information. [3] Technology literacy is the ability to responsibly and effectively use technological tools to access, manage, integrate, evaluate, create and communicate information. Together these concepts form media and information literacy (MIL), which empowers citizens to navigate media and information.

1. Media Literacy,
Information Literacy, and
Technology Literacy

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3. MEDIA
a channel for transmitting information
it’s the vehicle for a message

4. LITERACY
The ability to identify, understand,
interpret, create, communicate, and
compute, using printed and written
materials associated with varying
contexts.
UNESCO Media and Information Literacy Curriculum for Teachers

5. INFORMATION
a broad term that can cover data,
knowledge derived from study,
experience, or instruction, signals, or
symbols
UNESCO Media and Information Literacy Curriculum for Teachers

6. INFORMATION IN MEDIA CONTEXT
The knowledge of specific events or
situation that has been gathered or
received by communication,
intelligence, or newspapers.
UNESCO Media and Information Literacy Curriculum for Teachers

7. Media Literacy
The ability to access, analyze, evaluate,
and create media in a variety of forms. It
aims to empower citizens by providing
them with the competencies (knowledge
and skills) necessary to engage with
traditional media and new technologies.

8. Information Literacy
The ability to recognize when information
is needed, and to locate, evaluate, and
effectively communicate information in its
various formats.

9. Technology (Digital) Literacy
The ability of an individual, either working
independently or with others, to
responsibly, appropriately, and effectively
use technological tools. Using these tools
an individual can access, manage, integrate,
evaluate, create and communicate
information.

10. DIRECTION: try to compare and contrast the
three concepts by filling out the table below:

11. Media literacy, information literacy, and
technology literacy are combined together as
Media and Information Literacy (MIL).
Since media and information is taking up more and
more of our time, it’s important that we understand
its influence on everything we do and how we can
knowledgeably and skillfully navigate our way
through them.

12. Media and Information Literacy
A set of competencies that empowers citizens
to access, retrieve, understand, evaluate and
use, to create as well as share information and
media content in all formats, using various
tools, in a critical, ethical and effective way, in
order to participate and engage in personal,
professional and societal activities.
UNESCO Media and Information Literacy Curriculum for Teachers

14. Try to think back to the kinds of media you spent your time today.
Reflect on the following actions and questions:
• Access – What kind of media were you absorbing? How did you get
to it?
• Analyze – Where you making sense of its messages? Do you need
these information?
• Evaluate – Were you aware that each message was created by
someone with their own goals and opinions?
• Create – When you create media, like a Facebook post or an
Instagram story, what is your responsibility to those who
view it?
• Act – What do you do with all that information you just received?
Can you access or locate other credible information sources?