MIL

• Media Literacy

  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 Literacy


  • The ability to use digital technology, communication tools or networks to locate, evaluate, use, and create information
• Importance of Information Literacy by Paul Zurkowski
• The Six Vital Concepts of Information Literacy

  • Authority is constructed and contextual
  • Information creation as a process
  • Information has value
  • Research as inquiry
  • Scholarship as conversation
  • Searching as strategic exploration
• The Big 6 Model


  • A set of steps that summarizes the processes involved in information literacy
  • Developed by Michael Eisenberg and David Berkowitz in 2000
  • Simplest and Easiest to understand
  • Task Definition
  • Information Seeking Strategies
  • Location and Access
  • Use of Information
• The Big 6 Model


  • A set of steps that summarizes the processes involved in information literacy
  • Developed by Michael Eisenberg and David Berkowitz in 2000
  • Simplest and Easiest to understand
• The Big 6 Model

  1. Task Definition

  2. Information Seeking Strategies

  3. Location and Access

  4. Use of Information

  5. Synthesis

  6. Evaluation
• Task Definition


  1. Determine the Information that you need

  2. Guide Questions: What is the question that I need to answer? What Information do I need? What problem do I need to solve?
• Information Seeking Strategies


  1. Look for the information that you need

  2. List down all possible sources for your specific topic

  3. Narrow your list down by selecting the best sources for your topic

  4. Guide Questions: Which sources will provide reliable information? Which sources can provide information that is specific to my topic?
• Location and Access


  1. Locating the sources and gathering the information that you need from them

  2. Start by focusing on keywords, keyword phrases, and synonyms that are specific to your topic

  3. Guide Question: What keywords, keyword phrases, or synonyms would lead me to useful information about my topic?
• Use of Information


  1. Narrow down the Information that you have gathered

  2. Filter out all the information that you do not need, and gather the relevant, useful, or essential ones

  3. Guide Questions: What information contributes to my topic? What information does not? Is this Information necessary to my study? Does this information answer the question presented by my research topic?
• Synthesis


  1. Decide how to organize and present the information that you have gathered

  2. Focus on the message you are trying to convey and identify your intended audience

  3. Guidelines: Consider your audience, Have a thesis statement or main idea, Thoroughly research your topic, Create a simple but coherent outline, Organize information according to the format of delivery chosen
• Evaluation


  1. Evaluate all the steps undertaken and focus on those which can be improved

  2. Always reflect on how you process, gather, and share information

  3. Guide Questions: Was I able to solve the problem initially identified? Are all my sources credible and reliable? Did I thoroughly understand all the information organized and shared? Was I able to relay my message clearly and concisely?
• Six Vital Concepts of Information Literacy
• Authority is constructed and contexual


  able to evaluate the legitimacy and credibility behind a piece of information
• INFORMATION CREATION AS A PROCESS 

   emphasizes that all information undergo processes of researching, creating, revising and disseminating.
• INFORMATION HAS VALUE


  information literate realizes that even though information can be accessed for free, it has many forms of value.
• RESEARCH AS INQUIRY


  information literate respects and applies the research process by continually asking new, more difficult questions
• SCHOLARSHIP AS CONVERSATION

  • must be open to different ideas and different cultural perspectives

  This is how new insights and discovers are formed and tested in a continuous cycle.
• SEARCHING AS STRATEGIC EXPLORATION

   the ability of the information literate to devise various multi-step processes in acquiring information.