Lesson 3

• Characteristics of a Media and Information Literate Person

  1. Critical Thinker
  2. knows how to protect himself/herself and others on the internet.
  3. knows how to evaluate the positive and negative effect of media content
  4. behaves properly on the internet
• Critical Thinking is your ability to reason. It is about being an active learner rather than a passive recipient of information.
• Critical thinkers identify, analyze and solve problems systematically rather than by intuition or instinct.
• Critical Thinking is important to evaluate information correctly which will result to sound decision making
• The word netiquette is a combination of ’net’ (from internet) and ’etiquette’.
• Netiquette means respecting other users’ views and displaying common courtesy when posting your views to online discussion groups
• The two golden rules to follow

  1. If you wouldn’t say it to someone’s face in a public place, don’t say it online.
  2. Don’t rely on privacy settings – anyone who can see your content can download it, copy it, take a screen shot and then share it publicly.
• digital footprint is the data trail left by your interactions in the digital world.