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Act Create
Reflect
Media literacy skills can help people to:
1. Develop critical thinking skills
2. Understand how media messages shape our
culture and society
3. Recognizing what media makers want us to
believe or do
4. Recognize bias, spin, misinformation and lies
5. Discover the parts of the story that are not being
told.
6. Evaluate media messages based on our
experiences, skills and values.
7. Create and distribute our own media messages
8. Advocate for media justice.
Information
Information is a broad term that
covers processed data, knowledge
derived from a study, experience,
instruction, signals or symbols.
Information literacy
It is a set of skills requiring people to
recognize when information is needed
and have the ability to locate, evaluate,
and use effectively the needed
information.
Information literacy
An Information Literate person is able to:
1. Determine the extent of information needed.
2. Access the needed information effectively and
efficiently.
3. Evaluate information and its sources critically.
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.
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Technology Literacy
Technology literacy is the skill of
the person, working independently
and with others, to responsibility,
appropriately and effectively uses
technology tools to access,
manage, integrate, create
and communicate information.
Learners who have obtained technological literacy are
able to:
1. Problem-solve
2. Communicate
3. Locate, use and synthesize information
found using technology
4. Develop skills necessary to function in
st
the 21 century.
Salient preparatory skills of a technology literate person: