Media & Info (Chapter 1)

• Literacy is the ability to read and write.
• Literacy is a set of skills that includes the ability to read with comprehension and write simple messages.
• Literacy is the fundamental human right and the foundation for lifelong learning. It is fully essential to social and human development in its ability to transform lives.
• Literacy is is an instrument of empowerment to improve one’s health, income, and one’s relationship with the world.
• Functional literacy is where individuals can engage in all the activities in which basic literacy is required for the effective functioning of their community and enable them to continue to use reading, writing, and calculation for their own and community’s development.
• Civic literacies and digital age literacies: two (2) new set of literacies that will enable the students engage in collaborative work, innovative action, and deploy proactive responses to social issues imperatives.
• Digital age literacy is an ensemble of the skills and knowledge necessary to navigate the internet and the ever-expanding world of digital technology.
• Digital age literacy refers to the use of digital technologies and equipment wisely, productively, and positively.
• Civic literacy refers to skills and competencies necessary to engage with communities and societies as citizens of a democracy.
• Digital age literacy span the use of all technologies and content (text, image, and sound) that are created through digital technology.
• Digital age literacy covers both the cognitive skills that are needed in navigating the digital environment-marking our daily lives and technical ability to use digital equipment in its various forms.
• Technical ability includes the use of computers for various applications, surfing the internet, accessing information from various internet sites, chatting and videoconferencing, and using multimedia equipment.
• Different forms of digital literacy include computer literacy, technological literacy, information literacy, visual literacy, and news literacy.
• Computer literacy involves knowing how to use the computer independently-both its software hardware components.
• Computer literacy: an individual who can access, manage, synthesize, assess, evaluate, create, and disseminate information using the computer.
• Technological literacy is also about the use of computer but emphasize on emerging technologies that are product of human innovation.
• Technological literacy: a person who understands the role of technology in society, how it shapes history, and how society is shaped by it; situate how technology can be used in various human endeavors such as science, humanities, medicine, economics etc.; elaborate how application technology yield better results and bring about innovation; indicate how technology can also be misused for purposes that do not serve human and social development.
• Visual literacy is a group of vision-competencies a human being can develop by seeing and at the same time having and integrating other sensory experiences.
• Visual literacy was first defined by John Debes in 1969.
• Visual literacy: as the rise of digital technology has paved the way, the expanded definition developed, “the ability to interpret, use, appreciate, and create images (e.g. painting, photographs, infographics etc.) using both analog and digital technologies to disseminate information, produce knowledge, or provide aesthetically pleasing experiences. Includes art and design.”
• News literacy: appreciating, understanding, and verifying the reliability and credibility of information that comes from a news source (print, radio, television, or the internet).
• News literacy in its simplest form ask questions such as: Why should I believe this news?
• Journalist: a trained professional who seeks to know and report the truth; reports based on facts, verifies information multiple times with primary sources before publishing; has an editor who tries to make sure their report is balanced; follows Code of Ethics; can be sued for libel or defamation
• Influencer: someone who has the power or impact over the purchasing decisions of a group of people; makes unfiltered content based on their personal interests and wants of their engaged audience; brands and companies hire them to help them reach their marketing and sales targets; information is usually based on personal experience or “opinion”; anyone can become one
• Fact: a statement that can be proven to be true by the use of evidence; true in all cases and for all people; are universal.
• Opinion: can express a belief, attitude, value, judgment, or feeling; has no factual evidence, debatable, and one can potentially agree or disagree.
• Information literacy is a set of skills and competencies that enable people to make informed judgments and decisions on the type of information they need, where to access it, and how they will use it to make decisions.
• Civic literacy is a body of skills, knowledge, and attitudes that enable a citizen to actively participate and initiate changes in the community and the greater society.
• Civic is “civitas” in Greek, meaning citizen.
• Civic literacy has a goal for citizens to think beyond the confines of their homes and extend their participation to the community and society.
• Different forms of civic literacy include environmental literacy, gender literacy, financial literacy, multicultural literacy, and media literacy.
• Environmental literacy is used interchangeably with “ecological literacy” and “environmental education” (thrust)
• Environmental literacy: the ability to recognize that an individual’s choice or actions has implications for the environment and the knowledge to identify the most efficient and, more importantly, sustainable solution to a problem.
• Environmental literacy: an individual knows basic environmental information, the ways which human actions harm the environment and the limits of human practices to alter natural process in the environment; aware that change to truly happen, for the planet to be truly saved, the KSA must be transmitted to the next generation.
• Gender literacy: honor and affirming that women are equal to men, helping people to see that sex assigned birth doesn't define your gender identity, gender expression, or your sexual orientation.
• Financial literacy: individual’s capacity to manage inflows and outflows of money
• Five (5) categories of financial literacy: (1) knowledge on financial concepts, (2) ability to communicate about financial concepts, (3) aptitude in managing personal finances, (4) skills in making appropriate financial decisions, and (5) confidence in planning effectively for future financial needs
• Multicultural literacy is best understood using the lens of difference.
• Multicultural literacy: a citizen who recognize and respects the presence of others in their immediate community and society who are different from them; understand that cultural, racial, ethic, religious, and linguistic differences govern human societies; know that through this differences that one realizes that no culture is intrinsically superior to another
• Media literacy: ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and create media in a variety of forms and across variety of platforms