This document provides an introduction to media and information literacy. It defines media and information literacy as the ability to access, analyze, and create media. It discusses the benefits of media literacy, including enhancing knowledge, imparting understanding of media's democratic functions, and fostering independent media. The document outlines skills required to enjoy these benefits, including considering literacy holistically and ensuring equal access to information. It then defines and discusses the concepts of media literacy, information literacy, and digital/technology literacy, outlining their importance and key components.

2. Introduction to Media and
Information Literacy
Sir Dawn Ticsay

3. What is Media and Information
Literacy?
Media and information literacy represented
as the capability to access, analyze and
invent media.

4. Article 19 of the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights.
“Everyone has the right to
freedom of opinion and
expression; this right includes
freedom to hold opinions
without interference and to
seek, receive and impart
information and ideas through
any media and regardless of
frontiers.”

5. Benefits of Media and Information Literacy
In the teaching and learning
process, it helps the teacher to
enhance knowledge to empower
future citizens.

6. Benefits of Media and Information Literacy
It imparts crucial
knowledge about the
functions of media and
information channels in
democratic societies.

7. Benefits of Media and Information Literacy
A society that is media and
information literate fosters the
development of free,
independent and pluralistic
media and open information
system.

8. To Enjoy the Benefits of MIL, the following
are required:
Media and Information Literacy should be
considered as a whole and should include,
knowledge, skills and attitudes.

9. To Enjoy the Benefits of MIL, the following
are required:
The MIL curriculum
should enable teachers
to teach media and
information literacy to
students with the
objective of providing
them with essential
tools.

10. To Enjoy the Benefits of MIL, the following
are required:
Citizens should be ready
and equipped with the
knowledge about the
location and assumption
of information as well as
about the production of
information.

11. To Enjoy the Benefits of MIL, the following
are required:
Everyone should have an
equal access to
information and
knowledge.

12. Media Literacy
It is the advent to
education.
It is the understanding to
access, analyze, evaluate,
create, reflect and act
using all forms of
communication.

13. Media Literacy
Media literate people can
figure out complex messages
from the television, radio,
Internet, newspapers,
magazines, books, billboards,
video games, music, and all
other forms of media.

14. Media Literacy Skills can Help People
to:
1. Develop Critical Thinking Skills.
2. Understand how media messages shape
our culture and society.
3. Identify target marketing strategies.

15. Media Literacy Skills can Help People
to:
4. Recognize what media maker wants us to
believe or do.
5. Name the techniques of persuasion used.
6. Recognize bias, spin, misinformation and
lies.

16. Media Literacy Skills can Help People
to:
7. Discover the parts of the story that are not being
told.
8. Evaluate media messages based on our
experiences, skills, beliefs, and values.
9. Create and distribute our own media messages
10. Advocate for media justice.

17. Information
Literacy
It is also called as the Information Age in the
beginning of the 21st century because of the
explosion of information output and information
sources.

18. Information
Literacy
Information Literacy is a set of skills requiring
people to recognize when information is need
and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use
effectively the need information.

19. Information
Literacy
Information is available in the libraries,
community resources, special interest
organizations, media and the Internet – and
more information comes to people in unfiltered
format, raising questions about it authenticity,
validity, and reliability.

20. Information
Literacy
According to the American Library Association
Presidential Committee on Information Literacy,

21. Information
Literacy
“Ultimately , information literate people are those
who have learned how to learn. They know how to
learn because they know how knowledge is
organized, how to find information and how to use
information in such a way that others can learn from
them. They are people prepared for lifelong learning,
because they can always find the information
needed for any task or decision at hand.”

22. An Information Literate Person is able
to:
1. Determine the extent of information needed.
2. Access the needed information effectively
and efficiently.
3. Evaluation information and its sources
critically.

23. An Information Literate Person is able
to:
4. Incorporate selected information into one’s
knowledge base.
5. Use information effectively to accomplish a specific
purpose.
6. Understand the economic, legal, and social issues
surrounding the use of information, and access and
use information ethically and legally.

24. Information
Literacy
Information literacy relates traditional skills like
reading, researching and writing; but there are
new ways to read and write and these are:
1. Consuming Information
2. Producing Information.

25. Technology (Digital) Literacy
It is the skill of a person, working independently
and with others, to responsibility, appropriately
and effectively uses technology tools to access,
manage, integrate, create and communicate
information.

26. Learners who have obtained Technological Literacy are
able to:
1. Problem Dolce
2. Communicate
3. Locate, use and synthesize information found using
technology.
4. Develop skills necessary to function in the 21st
Century.
Technology (Digital) Literacy

27. According to International Society for Technology
in Education (ISTE), technology literacy requires
learners to demonstrate skills in several areas,
these are:
Technology (Digital) Literacy

28. 1. Creativity and Innovation
2. Communication and Collaboration
3. Research and Information Fluency
4. Digital Citizenship
5. Technology Operations and Concepts.
Technology (Digital) Literacy