MIL lesson 2-3 reviewer

• Pre-Industrial Age (Before 1700s):

  • People discovered fire, developed paper from plants, and used stone, bronze, copper, and iron for tools and weapons
  • Writing started around 3,200 BCE in Mesopotamia and 600 BCE in Mesoamerica
  • Forms of early writing: Egyptian Hieroglyphs, cave paintings, clay tablets for cuneiform, and papyrus made from the pith of the papyrus plant
• Information was mainly passed on orally in the Pre-Industrial Age
• Johannes Gutenberg's movable-type printing press started the Printing Revolution
• Industrial Age (1700s-1930s):

  • Steam power, machine tools, iron production, and the printing press for book production
  • Telegraph for long-distance communication
  • Introduction of motion pictures (film or movie)
• Electronic Age (1930s-1980s):

  • Invention of the transistor led to the transistor radio, electronic circuits, and early computers
  • Advancements like television, personal computers, LCD projectors
• New Age or Information Age:

  • Internet's impact on faster communication and social networks
  • Advancements in microelectronics with personal computers, mobile devices, and wearable technology
  • Examples include Internet Explorer, Blogs, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google, and laptops
• Lesson 3: Types of Information:

  • Scholarly information is drawn from field experts and needs to be peer-reviewed before being made public
  • Professional/Trade information includes news and trends about specific industries with field-specific jargon
  • Popular information is meant for the general population and includes entertainment like video games, social media, and online games
  • Opinion information presents viewpoints and judgments, categorized into fields like Medicine, Legislative, and Judicial
• Providers of Information:

  • Academic Institutions: schools, colleges, and universities that confer academic degrees
  • Government Agencies: organizations responsible for specific functions like weather (PAG-ASA) and volcanoes (PHIVOLCS)
  • Private Sector: businesses and organizations not owned by the government, like ABS-CBN and GMA
  • Private Individuals: individuals who provide information independently
• Sources of Information:

  • Primary Sources: firsthand accounts like thesis, diaries, interviews, speeches, and photographs
  • Secondary Sources: comments on or analyzes primary sources, adding value like textbooks and biographies
  • Tertiary Sources: refer to primary or secondary sources, giving an overview like dictionaries and encyclopedias
• Attribution and Data Triangulation:

  • Attribution is identifying the source of information
  • Data triangulation is finding multiple sources for the same information
  • Levels of attribution: On the Record, On Background, Deep Background, Off the Record