Jericson Soriano

• Media Literacy - "the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and communicate messages in a wide variety of forms" Aufderheide (1993)
• Media Literacy - "the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and create messages across a variety of contexts." Christ and Potter (1998)
• Media Literacy is the ability to identify different types of media and understand the messages they are communicating.
• Types of Media

  1. Television
  2. Radio
  3. Newspapers
  4. Magazines
  5. Books
  6. Handouts
  7. Flyers

  What they all have in common is that they were all created by someone, and that someone had a reason for creating them.
• Digital Literacy can be defined as the ability to locate, evaluate, create, and communicate information on various digital platforms.
• Digital Literacy is the technical, cognitive, and sociological skills needed to perform task and solve problems in digital environment.
• Media Literacy is the ability to identify different types of media and understand the messages they are communicating, including who is the intended audience and what is the motivation behind the message.
• Digital or Cyber Literacy is a subset of media literacy; the ability to locate, evaluate, create, and communicate information on various digital platforms. This includes the ability to verify information as factual as well as identify and avoid communication with deceitful, malicious, and exploitative content.
• Information Literacy is a subset of media literacy; the ability to locate, access, and evaluate information from a variety of media sources.
• Ecological Literacy refers to an individual's understanding no only of ecological concepts, but also for his or her place in the ecosystem.
• Ecological Literacy is a form of transformative education that requires shifts in three related areas;

  1. Perception (Seeing)
  2. Conception (Knowing)
  3. Action (Doing)
• The ecologically literate person of the 21st century has a positive view of life, grounded on the faith of interconnectedness, and has the capacity to competently perform a significant life, work, and related tasks.
• Creativity can be defined as the process of having original ideas that have value.
• All children have capacity for innovation and creativity.
• Schools should work toward educating the whole-being of the child.
• Artistic Literacy is the knowledge and understanding required to participate authentically in the arts.
• Characterize an artistically literate student

  • use a variety of artistic media, symbols, and metaphors to communicate their own ideas and respond to the artistic communication of others.
  • develop creative personal realization in at least one art form in which they can continue active involvement as an adult.
  • cultivate culture, history, and other connections through diverse forms and genres of artwork.
  • find joy, inspiration, peace, intellectual stimulation, and meaning when they participate in the arts.
  • seek artistic experiences and support the arts in their communities.
• Our environment faces several problems, and many of these seem to be worsening with time, bringing us into a time of a true environmental crisis. It is therefore becoming increasingly important to raise awareness of the existence of these issues, as well as what can be done to reduce their negative impact.

  • Pollution
  • Global Warming
  • Overpopulation
  • Waste Disposal
  • Ocean Acidification
  • Loss of Biodiversity
  • Deforestation
  • Ozone Depletion
• Parts to whole - subject are taught to be integrated, not as isolated units in the curriculum.
• From object to relationship - Schools put premium on relationship-based processes such as cooperation, collaboration, and decision-making by consensus.
• From objective knowledge to contextualized knowledge.
• From quantity to quality - schools are challenged to design assessment more adequate than the standardized test if they are to practice this principle.
• From structure to process - the shift is embodied in project-based learning which highlights the application within evolving real life contents.
• From contents to patterns - Pedagogically, it reminds us the importance of integrating art into programs of study.
• Artistic Literacy - helps students develop design, creativity, and critical thinking - all skills said to be important for the future workforce.
• WHAT TEACHERS CAN DO

  • Be aware of your own limiting misconceptions about creativity.
  • Take a risk to express your creative side
  • Treat lesson planning as the creative exercise as it is
  • Switch up your daily routines
  • Embrace ambiquity