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• Characteristics of a good media practitioner

  1. Truthfulness - accurate, factual, and truthful

  2. Fairness and objectivity - should be objective and based on ground evidence, no bias or opinionated

  3. Responsibility and integrity - professionalism, showing partiality or partisanship, not compromising reputation and credibility for the sake of popularity or power

  4. Empathy and sympathy - do not use their job for personal gains, sensitive, respectful for others' privacy

  5. Hard working - they work hard in sourcing information, must not compromise the public's interest
• Creators of media and information

  1. Writers and journalists translate relevant information into printed materials

  2. Editors ensure that the materials have high standards, check the material for grammatical errors

  3. Directors ensure that the message of the shows is clear to the audience

  4. Performers are the actors who portray the characters, guided by the directors, celebrities, artists, singers, dancers to successfully deliver the information

  5. Visual Artists express ideas through artworks
• What is media and information literacy?


  Linked to the access to information, free expression, and education
• MIL

  • Ability to access, analyze, and create media, linked to access to information, free expression, and education
• Media literacy


  • Skills to responsibly use appropriate technology to access, synthesize, evaluate, communicate, and create information to solve problems and improve learning in all subject areas
• Technology literacy


  • Ability to acquire information and use modern-day tools, based on present technologies, as technology advances, TL also advances
• The word “literate” refers to a person who does not only read and write but also understand and solve problems
• “literate” can also mean that a person is knowledgeable or well-versed about a specific subject, like history or science
• Literacy is the ability to encode and decode symbols and synthesize and analyze messages