MIL QUARTER 2 MODULE 3: Media and Information Literate Individual

Ganilyn D. Ponciano. STEM 12 – A MIL

What I Know
Activity: Let us determine how much you already learned.
1. Media Literacy
Media literacy refers to the ability of a person to identify the different messages that media
tries to send. This may be through print media or digital media. Media literacy helps us
understand a certain topic, and contribute on that topic along the way. This enables us to give
critical assessments regarding a topic of interest

2. Media Literate Individual

Enables people to interpret and make informed judgments as users of information and media,
as well as to become skillful creators and producers of information and media messages in their
own right.

3. Media and Information Literacy

Media and Information Literacy (MIL), defined as the ability to access, analyze, and create
media, is a prerequisite for citizens to realize their rights to freedom of information and
expression.

What’s New
Answer the following questions briefly.
1. How do you foresee the use of technology and the Internet in our daily lives?
The most important use is that you can get information and education from the internet. It
provides us with various sites and various blogs that give us informative content which helps us
in our studies. It also helps people learn various things and people get knowledge on which they
apply in their daily life.
 2. How did the government help its citizens to become more media and information
literate?
The government assists its citizens in becoming more media and information literate. Literacy is
promoted by providing open information about what is going on in our country. The
government is educating the public about what is going on around us by involving the media.

3. What makes people, in general, a media and information literate?

Individuals must be able to recognize whether information is true or false and better yet know
how to locate, evaluate, use, and communicate information in various formats; this is called
information literacy.

What’s More
Activity 1. Using the chart below, list down the impact of media on individual and society.
What I Have Learned

1. Define media and information literate individual.

An information literate individual is able to: Determine the extent of information needed.
Access the needed information effectively and efficiently. Evaluate information and its sources
critically. Incorporate selected information into one's knowledge base. Use information
effectively to accomplish a specific purpose.

2. Enumerate the benefits media can offer to an individual and to the society.

 Improved quality of life

 Greater political participation
 Better economic opportunities
 Improve leaning environment
 More cohesive social unit

What I Can Do
Activity 1: Choose one social networking media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.) and discuss
the benefits and challenges it can create in the education sector.

Uses of Facebook (Social networking media) in the Education sector

Benefits
 Connecting. Facebook can be used to
establish connections with students
all around the world.
 Information. Facebook is the biggest
platform that people tend to share
information in regular basis.
 News. (Just make sure that your
source is reliable)
 Improved Literacy, Communication,
And Reading Skills.
 Leisure time
Challenges
 Violation of privacy
 Addiction
 Cyber-Bullying
 Students can be easily distracted
 Students may find it hard to interact
with each other if relying too much on
social media.
 Posting inappropriate content may
harm the school's reputation.
 Decreases Face-to-Face
Communication Skills.
Assessment
Instruction. Give the importance of media and information in the following sectors:

Sectors Individual Society

Business Social media boosts your Social media eases the
visibility among potential process of providing and
customers, letting you reach receiving feedback. If your
a wide audience by using a customers have concerns or
large amount of time and problems with what your
effort. And it's free to create business offers, they can let
a business profile on all the you know in a timely manner.
major social networks, so you Social media gives customers
have nothing to lose. a convenient and accessible
way to express what they
feel and gives companies a
chance to respond.
Politics Influence people’s The media acts as bridge
perception about politics between government and
specifically to the politicians public. Political
whom they want to support. communication can be
defined as the connection
concerning politics and
citizens and the interaction
modes that connect these
groups to each other.
Whether the relationship is
formed by the modes of
persuasion, Pathos, Ethos or
Logos.
Education Social media plays an Effective instruction builds
important role in every bridges between students'
student's life. It is often knowledge and the learning
easier and more convenient objectives of the course.
to access information, Using media engages
provide information and students, aids student
communicate via social retention of knowledge,
media. Tutors and students motivates interest in the
can be connected to each subject matter, and
other and can make good use illustrates the relevance of
of these platforms for the many concepts.
benefit of their learning and
teaching.
Personal Catching Up With News and They inform, educate and
Important Events All Over the entertain people. They also
World. influence the way people
look at the world and make
It becomes our leisure time. them change their views.
Mass media plays a very
important role in organizing
public opinion. Millions of
people watch TV and read
newspapers in their free
time.
Social Social Media allows people to Social Media plays a crucial
interact in ways we could role in connecting people and
never imagine, how we did developing relationships, not
till now without it. It is quite only with key influencers and
easy to catch up on journalists covering your
someone's life through a company's sector, but also
simple message on the provides a great opportunity
computer or mobile phone, to establish customer service
even email. Social media by gathering input,
enables communication for answering questions and
not only one's personal life listening to their feedback.
but also for business life.