Media Information Literacy 12

Quarter 3 Week 6

Name: __________________________________ Grade/Section:________________

Learning Activity Sheet No. 6 Date Answered: ______________

With the help of this learning activity sheet you will learn to:
a. Contrast indigenous media to the more common sources of
information such as library, internet, etc.

Let’s kick it off!

Directions: Analyze the images found below and answer the

questions that follow.

INTERNET LIBRARY

Photo Credit: http://thepoliticalcarnival.net/tag/information-overload/ Source: http://mostpp.org/modernlibraryinteriors-2/

INDIGENOUS PEOPLE

© Renato S. Rastrollo / NCCA -ICH/UNESCO

https://ich.unesco.org/en/oral-traditions-and-expressions-00053
 Are you taking it?

1. In your own understanding, how will you describe the

library, the internet, and the indigenous people/group/community?

2. If you are to research about the topic “Filipino Practices and

Traditions”, which among the three would you use as an information
source? Why?

3. How will you rank them in terms of Accuracy? Reliability?

Accessibility? Explain each.

Here’s how it is!

SOURCES OF INFORMATION

What is Indigenous?
- Native; local; originating or produced naturally in a particular region/locality

Indigenous Knowledge
- Knowledge that is unique to a specific culture or society; most often it is not written
down

Indigenous Communication
- Transmission of information through local channels or forms
- It is a means by which the culture is preserved, handed down and adapted

INDIGENOUS MEDIA
- may be defined as forms of media expression conceptualized, produced, and circulated
by indigenous people around the globe as vehicles for communication.

FORMS OF INDIGENOUS MEDIA:

1. FOLK OR TRADITIONAL MEDIA
2. GATHERINGS AND SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS
3. DIRECT OBSERVATION
4. RECORDS (WRITTEN, CARVED, ORAL)
5. ORAL INSTRUCTION
What is a library?
- A place in which literary, musical, artistic, or reference materials (such as books,
manuscripts, recordings, or films) are kept for use but not for sale. (Merriam Webster’s 11th Collegiate
Dictionary)

4 Major Types of Libraries:

•ACADEMIC LIBRARY •SCHOOL LIBRARY
•PUBLIC LIBRARY •SPECIAL LIBRARY

What is the Internet?

- a global computer network providing a variety of information and communication
facilities, consisting of interconnected networks using standardized communication
protocols.

EVALUATING INFORMATION FOUND ON THE INTERNET:

-Authorship -Publishing body -Accuracy and Verifiability -Currency

Things to Consider in Evaluating Information:

Reliability –Accuracy –Value –Authority -Timeliness