Visual Literacy Defined

Visual literacy is a set of abilities that enables an individual to effectively find, interpret, evaluate, use,
and create images and visual media.

What is Information Literacy? Information literacy is the ability to find, evaluate, organize, use, and
communicate information in all its various formats, most notably in situations requiring decision making,
problem solving, or the acquisition of knowledge.

For example: In Research. allow you to find the solution to an issue or answer to a question by
gathering, analyzing and interpreting information about a specific topic. ...

Media literacy education provides tools to help people develop receptive media capability to critically
analyze messages, offers opportunities for learners to broaden their experience of media, and helps
them develop generative media capability to increase creative skills in making their own media
messages.

LIFE AND CAREER SKILLS

1. Flexibility and adaptability

2. Leadership and responsibility
3. Social and cross-cultural skills
4. Initiative and self-direction
5. Productivity and accountability
6. Ethical, moral and spiritual values

Flexibility and adaptability

 Adapt to varied roles, jobs and responsibilities, schedule and contexts.

 Work effectively in a climate of ambiguity and changing priorities.
 Incorporate feedback effectively.
 Deals positively with praise, setbacks and criticism.
 Understand, negotiate and balance diverse views and beliefs to reach workable solutions
particularly in multi-cultural environments.

Leadership and Responsibility

 Guide and lead others

 Be responsible to others

Social and cross-cultural skills

 Interact effectively with others

 Work effectively in diverse team
Initiative and self-direction

 Manage goal and time

 Work independently
 Be self-directed learners

Productivity and accountability

 Manage project
 Produce result

Information, Media and Technology Skills

1. Visual Literacies
2. Media Literacies
3. Basic, scientific, economic, and technological literfacies
4. Multicultural Skills

Visual literacies

 Ability to interpret, make meaning from information presented in the form of an image.
 Ability to evaluate, apply, or create conceptual virtual presentations.

Information Literacies

 Ability to identify information is needed.

 Identify the best sources of information for a given need
 Locate those sources, evaluate the sources critically, and share that information.
Media Literacies

 Ability to critically analyzed the message that inform, entertain and sell to us every day.
 Ability to bring critical thinking skills to bear on all forms of media asking pertinent questions
about what is there and noticing what is not there.
 Ability to question what lies behind media production.

Scientific Literacy

 Encompasses written, numerical and digital literacy as they pertain to understanding science is
methodology, observation and theories.
 Knowledge and understanding of scientific concept and process required for personal decision
for personal decision making, participation in civic and cultural affairs and economic
productivity.

Economic Literacy

 Ability to apply basic economic concepts in situations and relevant to one’s life.
 About cultivating a working knowledge of the economic way of thinking.

Technological Literacy

 Ability to use appropriate technology to:

 Communicate
 Solve problems
 Access, manage, Integrate, evaluate, design and create information to improve learning
in all subject areas.
 Acquire lifelong knowledge and skills in the 21 st century

ANOTHER WAY OF GROUPING THE 21ST CENTURY SKILLS

 Ways of thinking – Creativity, critical thinking, problem solving, decision- making and learning.
 Ways of working – Communication and collaboration.
 Tools for working – Information communications Technology (ICT) and information Literacy.
 Skills for living in the world - Citizenship, life and career, personal and social responsibility.