lesson 1- MIL

• Communication is a process of sharing ideas, and opinions about issues, people, events, and places among persons through various channels with the intent to gain common understanding
• Communication is an interactive process that allows sharing of meanings about texts, images and people’s actions and behavior
• Communication is coursed through verbal and non-verbal means of relying on information or using media such as print, broadcast, electronic, or new media
• Two Basic Types of Communication:

  • Non-verbal communication:
  • Signs
  • Symbols
  • Colors
  • Gestures
  • Body language
  • Facial expressions
  • Verbal communication:
  • Oral
  • Written
• Media may be classified into traditional media and new media

  • Traditional media include newspapers, radio, and television
  • New media include computers, mobile phones, and other digital gadgets
• Media is the physical objects used to communicate with, or the mass communication through physical objects such as radio, television, computers, film, etc
• Information:

  • Data, knowledge derived from study, experience, or instruction, signals or symbols
  • Knowledge of specific events or situations

  Media:

  • Communication Tools
• Media Literacy:

  • The ability to read, analyze, evaluate and produce communication in a variety of media forms
• Information Literacy:

  • The ability to recognize when information is needed and to locate, evaluate, effectively use and communicate information in its various formats
• Technology (Digital) Literacy:

  • The ability to use digital technology, communication tools or networks to locate, evaluate, use, and create information
• Media and Information Literacy:

  • A set of competencies that empowers citizens to access, retrieve, understand, evaluate and use, create as well as share information and media content in all formats, using various tools, personal, professional, and societal activities
• Media and Information Literacy:

  • Essential competencies (knowledge, skills and attitude) that allow citizens to engage with media and other information providers effectively and develop critical thinking and life-long learning skills for socializing and becoming active citizens
• Assignment:

  • Describe how communication is influenced by media and information
  • Name and write the media and information sources you have at home and discuss why you use them for communication
  • State how communication applies at home
  • List down the different information sources that the media tells you about the situation in our country
• Mass media refers to all forms of communication that reach large audiences via mass dissemination techniques such as print (newspapers), broadcasting (radio and television) and electronic media (computers).
• Media is the means or channel through which information, ideas, messages, images, etc., are transmitted to people.
• Social Media - A form of online communication through which users' generate user-generated content.
• Communication Technology - The means used to transmit messages from one place to another.
• New Media - Refers to any new medium of communication that uses computer technologies like internet, mobile phones, etc.
• Information is defined as data organized into meaningful patterns so it can be used to make decisions.
• Interpersonal Communication - face-to-face interaction among individuals or small group members.
• Communication is the process of exchanging information between two or more persons or groups.
• Information literacy is defined as "the ability to recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and communicate that information."
• Digital Divide - The gap between those who can access technology and those who cannot.
• The Internet is an interconnected global network consisting of millions of computers connected together by copper wires, fiber optic cables, wireless signals, and satellite links.
• Information Communication Technology (ICT) - Refers to any device or application that enables us to create, store, exchange, share and manipulate digital data.
• Old Media - Refers to traditional methods of communication like newspapers, radio, TV, etc.
• Cyberbullying - Using technology to harass, intimidate, threaten, embarrass, humiliate, degrade, or defame others.
• Internet is a worldwide system of computer networks—a network of networks in which users at any one computer can get information from any other computer (and sometimes talk directly to users at other computers)
• Information Sources - Any source where we can get information from.
• Primary Source - Information gathered firsthand from an individual who was present when something happened.
• The term "information" has been described by various authors as follows:
• Data arranged in an understandable format
• A message that conveys meaning
• Mass Communication - refers to the transmission of information to large audiences via mass media channels such as television, radio, newspapers, magazines, billboards, posters, and other forms of print and electronic media.
• Digital Media - refers to all types of digital technology including computers, smartphones, tablets, laptops, televisions, gaming consoles, and more.
• Mass media refers to all forms of electronic mass communications such as radio, television, newspapers, magazines, billboards, posters, and other printed materials.
• Media literacy is the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, create, and communicate using various forms of media.
• The Internet is an interconnected global network consisting of millions of computers linked by cables and satellite transmissions.
• The three types of media are print media (newspapers), broadcast media (radio and television), and digital media (computer screens).
• Electronic Media - refers to various devices that use electricity to send signals over wires or airwaves.