Activity of Media and Information Literacy

Lesson 2: The Evolution of Traditional to New Media

What format/ What format/
What format/
Age equipment did people equipment did people
equipment did people
use to communicate use to share or
use to store
with each other? broadcast
information?
information?

Pre-Industrial
Age
Industrial Age

Electronic Age

Information Age
Activity 1: Knowing You Media at Different Ages. Have the learners provide answers to fill in
the table below.

Activity 2: Discuss with the learners the following questions:

• Given the available media that we now have in the world, what are its roles and functions in
a democratic society?
• In what way does media affect your life (personal, professional, academic, social, others)?

Lesson 3: Information Literacy

Activity 1: Lead a discussion using the following guide questions and prompts
 Why do you need information?
 Where do you search for information?
 How do you acquire and store information?
 How will you determine the quality and accuracy of the information that you have?
 How do you use the information that you have?
 How will you communicate information?

Activity 2: Disaster Scenario

Explain the scenario to the learners, and have them answer the matrix below:
“According to the weather forecast, there is no typhoon. However, your locality is
experiencing heavy rainfall, while some parts in your province /region are already
flooded. There are reported incidents of landslide, evacuation, stranded vehicles and
drowning. As a student, what are you going to do?”

Information needs
What information do you need?
 Sources of information
Where will you get them?
Access to the information
How will you access them?
Evaluate information
How will you check the quality of
information?
Organize information
How will you organize and store
them?
Communicate information
How will you create and
communicate them?
Ask learners to present their responses to the class. Use their responses to synthesize their
understanding of information literacy.

Lesson 4: Types of Media

Activity 1: Ask the learners to start self-directed learning:
• Describe how new technologies have led to the convergence of traditional and new media.
• Explain how media convergence creates new opportunities for interaction.
• Describe the use of one or two forms of new media to share knowledge and information on a
current issue in society.
• Explain how a person could be portrayed in public in the age of media convergence.

Activity 2: Using the application that the learners are most competent with, make a
drawing/sketch on how different media is affecting your everyday life. The learners can use any
application that they are most comfortable with.

Drawing/Sketch Sample Rubric

Criteria 4 3 2 1
The use of The use of graphic The use of graphic The use of graphic
Appropriateness graphic arts to arts to present the arts to present the arts to present the
present the message is message is acceptably message is poorly
message is satisfactorily suitable executed.
suitable and on suitable
purpose.
The use of The use of graphic The use of graphics There is no hint of
Originality graphic arts arts is new, but arts is not originality in the
is new and with little very new. submitted work.
novel creativity
The student was The student was The student was The student was
able to create a able to create a able to create a not able to create a
Meaningfulness cohesive and cohesive but not cohesive sketch, cohesive or
comprehensive comprehensive with not so much meaningful sketch.
sketch, with sketch, with supporting details to
 supporting supporting details its meaning.
details to its to its
meaning. meaning.
The project was The project was The project was The project was
Completeness
submitted with submitted but had a submitted but seems submitted
all the few lacking to be slightly largely
requirements components. uncompleted. unfinished.
satisfied.

Lesson 5: Media and Information Sources

Activity 1: Finding Information Sources
Using different ways to find information sources, each individual will pick one indigenous group
for reporting and creative presentation.

1. Aeta
2. Igorot
3. Caraballo Tribes
4. Mangyan
5. Palawan Tribes
6. Lumad
7. Moro or Muslims

Activity 2: Essay
Have the learners write an essay on the topic “How do people find information that matches my
needs?” and “How do I choose from the wide variety of information made available by different
sources?”