Lesson 1 : Introduction to Media and Information Literacy

• Media Literacy - is the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and create media in variety of forms
• There are three most current concepts that focus on a critical way regarding on media messages in MIL. These are media literacy, information literacy, and technology literacy.
• Media - the main means of mass communication (broadcasting, publishing, and the internet) regarded collectively.
• Media Literacy Process Skills

  •Access

  •Analyze

  •Evaluate

  •Create
• Access


  • Recognize and understand media
  • Locating media from variety of sources
  • Select different types of media based on the task
• Analyze


  • Use prior knowledge to predict outcomes
  • Interpret message
  • Use strategies to compare/contrast, fact/opinion, cause/effect
• Evaluate


  • Appreciate in interpreting message
  • Evaluate the message
  • Judge the value of the message
  • Respond to messages of different content
• Create


  • Make use of brain storming, planning, composing, and revising process
  • Use language effectively
  • Create and select images to achieve various goals
  • Use technology to communicate in the construction of messages
• Creativity and Innovation 


  Learners use technology to demonstrate creative thinking, problem-solving and knowledge construction
• Media Literacy 


  is the ability to identify different types of media and understand the messages they're sending.
• Technology Digital Literacy - the ability to use digital technology communication tools or networks to locate, evaluate and create information
• Research and Information Fluency - Learners use technology to find and use accurate, up-to-date information.
• Communication and Collaboration - Learners use technology to communicate and collaborate in order to enhance their learning or the learning of others.
• Information Literacy - The ability to recognize when information is needed and to locate, evaluate effectively use and communicate information in its various. formats
• Creativity and Innovation - Learners use technology to demonstrate creative thinking, problem-solving and knowledge construction