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Mil Q2 Module2-Final
Mil Q2 Module2-Final
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MEDIA AND
INFORMATION LITERACY
Quarter 2 – Module 2:
MEDIA AND INFORMATION
LITERATE INDIVIDUAL
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What I Need to Know
This module was designed and written with you in mind. It is here to help you
master the context of Media and Information Literacy. It contains varied activities
that can help you as a Senior High School student to not just be an information
literate individual, but a creative and critical thinker as well as responsible user and
competent producer of media and information.
What I Know
Let us determine how much you already know about the Media and
Information Literate Individual by answering the questions below. Use your notebook
/ worksheet for your answers.
A. True or False: Write True if the statement is correct otherwise write False.
__________1. The media force feeds information to unwilling receivers.
__________ 4. Media and information literate individuals are in total disconnect to the
world.
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__________ 5. IT based jobs needed in the media.
__________ 10. Media and information literate individuals enjoy an improved quality
of life.
__________ 11. Deconstructing media messages is a critical skill in our media-
saturated culture, as it helps you cut through the noise and reach your own
conclusions
__________ 12. A young learner today has access to a very interesting and challenging
world of experience to explore.
__________ 13. You should look beneath the surface and don’t ask questions to
decode what these media messages are really saying.
__________ 14. The Internet is an incredible resource for news and information, but
unfortunately not everything online is trustworthy.
___________ 15. Fake articles can be difficult to spot at first, which is why it’s good to
develop a habit of checking the accuracy of any article you read.
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Media and Information
MIL Literate Individual
What’s In
In this lesson, you will identify the issues, challenges and benefits of the
different media and information platforms and to synthesize its overall impact on an
individual’s personal, professional, educational dealings and on the society’s
economic, social, political, educational sectors.
What’s New
The increased use of digital media is changing people’s everyday lives and the
way they connect and collaborate in the broader societal context, at work and in
civil society. Much of the impact of this heightened use is beneficial to both
individuals and society. It is enabling unprecedented levels of communication, social
interaction and community building across boundaries of time, place and social
context.
The Media and Information 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.
Media and information improve quality of life.
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What is It
Below are what media and information literate individuals capable of doing and
helping:
1. Attract greater opportunities and enhances the way of living.
2. Promote awareness on the various dealings and activities that impact the
community and society as a whole.
3. Liberate minds and develop characters.
4. Increase political and social participation
5. Empower economic stability
6. Enhance business and career opportunities
7. Encourages personal and professional growth
8. Develop communication skills
9. Improved learning environment
10. Maximize more cohesive social units
In recent years, however, fake news has been responsible for a great deal of
misinformation because more and more people have begun consuming and
believing these articles without bothering to fact check or even read beyond the
headlines. This acceptance of incorrect information has led to confusion, panic, and
an inability to discuss the actual facts surrounding current events.
Unfortunately, fake news writers will likely continue to create new sites and
methods to get around any digital roadblocks. This means the best way to prevent
fake news from spreading is to teach users how to identify fake news themselves.
That means you!
1. Enter the keywords of the story into a search engine and get a second opinion
from a credible news site with verifiable sources.
2. Check the dates involved in the article. Fake news writers sometimes take a
real story from the past, put an outrageous headline on it, and try to pass it
off as a current event.
3. Find the source of the author’s information for the article. Is the source
credible?
4. Does the website’s appearance look a little strange? Some fake news sites
mimic the appearance of legitimate news sources, tricking the casual reader.
5. Take a look at the headlines of other stories from the same website. Are most
of them hard to believe? Shocking? Inflammatory? If so, question the website’s
practices.
6. Is the article actually a joke? When we say fake news, we aren’t talking about
comedy sites like The Onion and ClickHole, which write humorous stories
based on current events.
There is no denying the extent of how the media and information age has
drastically improved
the lives of people.
Communication has
been made easier.
Information has
become widely
accessible.
Conducting research
has become more
convenient. All these
and more are enjoyed
by media literate
individuals and prove
just how much the
quality of life has
improved thanks to media and information.
Doing research readings have also become very convenient, in the past,
students have to get permission from different libraries to be able to avail of books
in other libraries. Now, you do not have to spend the whole day in the library to
gather data. You can stay in the comfort of your home but you are able to get the
information you need through the computer if you have access to the e-books
(electronic books) and e-journals (electronic journals), the world wide web, and other
computer applications.
Looking for a job is easy, go to the different job sites and find which job you
are qualified. Prepare your letter of application, resume, transcript of records, and
other qualifications and send them through e-mail to the company you are applying
to. You also receive the reply for you to go to their office for examinations and
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interviews through your e-mail or Facebook. Also, overtime work now does not mean
you have to stay in the office beyond office hours, rather you can work from home
using your computer.
If you live a very busy life, even shopping can be done online, you can view
whatever you need like clothes, shoes, gadgets, even cars. Make your order using
credit card and the items you ordered will be delivered at your doorstep.
You can plan your trips and vacation and avail of discounts in the airlines
through the internet. You pay your airline reservation through your credit card when
you make the reservation online and print the e-ticket (electronic ticket) which you
present at the airport when you are ready to take your trip.
With the availability of modern technology and the new media information,
many job opportunities are open to qualified young people who have the skills and
proficiency in English. What is meant by proficiency in English? They possess the
four skills in the language: they are proficient in listening, speaking, reading, and
writing. When a Filipino applies in a BPO, there are two kinds of jobs available for
him. The voice job where they work in the call centers, talking to customers in the
different parts of the world; the other job is the non-voice, where most of the jobs are
in front of the computers, reading and writing communication of business
transactions in the different parts of the world. The qualified and skilled Filipinos
have job opportunities in the BPO.
With the use of modern technology in media and information, many new job
opportunities are available to young people because most companies prefer to avail
of the new media. These companies are able to save on the number of employees.
Most transactions use the computers, so they use less paper; filling is also done in
the computer, so they use less paper; filling is also done in the computer so less
wasted space for filling cabinets because thousands of business transactions can be
saved in the computers.
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Improved Learning Environment
Many believe that media and information have made learning easy, accessible,
and inexpensive. With these are true, the improvement in the learning environment
brought by media and information goes beyond convenience, availability, and cost.
Learning in schools meant understanding –or at least attempting to- subjects
for the sake of passing and getting good grades. One’s education is given importance
because it is pre-requisite to a good job which is then equated to a good life.
Traditional learning environments have caused people in general to lose appetite for
knowledge. Luckily, media and information have cleansed society’s palate and have
reinvented learning as a whole.
Media does not force feed information to unwilling receivers, instead, media
has made information sought after. The media also made learning a choice instead
of a necessary evil. After all, no one is commanded “google” a topic or enroll in a
certain online course, people who do to choose to do it. Since the media is source
information and information age is characterized by the abundance of data, media
and information have been closely linked to the improvement of the learning
environment in the present age. A media and information literate individual take
advantage of this further his or her lifelong learning process.
A young learner today has access to a very interesting and challenging world
of experience to explore. Television now offers cable connections that enable a learner
to access information of the different countries in the world with translation in
English.
Most schools are equipped with computers with Internet connections. In some
schools, they have an extra room beside the library which has computers for
student’s research use. Even the card catalogue is no longer in small filling boxes in
one corner of the library, instead book collections and other references of the library
can be checked in the computer.
Most homes now have desktop computers, laptops, or computer tablets with
internet connections available from cable networks and telephone companies. Also,
there are computer shops available at a very low price of 20 pesos per hour use of
computers.
Learners from grade school, high school, and college levels have access about
media and information both in school as well as in their homes.
What’s More
Instructions: Fill in the chart with the overall impacts of media and information to
individual’s personal, professional and educational aspects and to society’s
economic, political, social and education sectors.
A
Overall impact Personal Professional Education
Aspect Aspect Aspect
of Media and
Information to an
individual
B
Overall impact Economic Political Sector Social Sector
Sector
of Media and
Information to
the society
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What I Can Do
Instructions:
Synthesize your learning by writing an essay about the value and impact of
being a media and information literate individual to the global community. Your
essay must have a title, an introduction, a body (1 main argument with 2 examples),
and a conclusion with not less than 10 sentences. Refer to the rubric for grading.
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Very Good (5) Good (4) Poor (2) Needs
Improvement
(0)
Introduction Well-developed Introductory Introduction Introduction
Background/ introductory paragraph does not was not
Define the paragraph contains some adequately presented.
Problem contains background explain the
detailed information background
background and states the of the
information, a problem, but problem.
clear does not The problem
explanation or explain using is stated,
definition of details. but lacks
the problem. detail.
Body Argument is well Argument was Argument Argument was
paragraphs developed with presented with was not presented.
Main supporting some presented
Argument examples. supporting but lacks
examples. examples.
Conclusion Conclusion was Conclusion Conclusion Conclusion
presented. was presented was was not
Opinions and with some presented presented.
suggestions for suggestions for but no
change are logical change are suggestions
and well thought evident. for change
out. and/ or
opinions
are
included.
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Assessment
A. Multiple Choice:
1. Media and information literate individual helps the following, EXCEPT ONE:
A. lessen personal contact with people C. increase political participation
B. improve quality of life D. enhances economic growth
5. Below are what media and information literate individuals capable of doing
and helping, EXCEPT ONE:
A. Liberate minds and undeveloped characters.
B. Increase political and social participation
C. Empower economic stability
D. Enhance business and career opportunities
B. True or False: Write True is the statement is correct otherwise write False.
Books
Zarate, Jovita E. Media and Information Literacy. 1st ed. Philippine: Rex Book
Store, Inc. 2016
Web Sites
https://amgregorio.wordpress.com/2017/02/19/chapter-10-media-and-
information-literate-individual/
https://reports.weforum.org/human-implications-of-digital-media-2016/section-3-
impact-of-digital-media-on-individuals-organizations-and-society/
https://sites.google.com/view/elearningmil/lessons/the-media-and-information-
literate-individual
https://edu.gcfglobal.org/en/digital-media-literacy/deconstructing-media-
messages/1/
https://edu.gcfglobal.org/en/digital-media-literacy/what-is-fake-news/1/
https://tribune.com.pk/story/2048476/medias-role-nation-building
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